Hornby And Linwood Retain League Lead

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31084, 13 June 1966, Page 15

Hornby And Linwood Retain League Lead

• Hornby, rather shakily, and Linwood, quite comfortably, retained their unbeaten Tavendale Cup Rugby League records when the fourth round was playe on Saturday.

By defeating Marist, 10-5, Hornby had its fourth close match of the season. Early superiority enabled Hornby to keep Marist at bay in the second half.

Although Addington has yet to win a Tavendale Cup match this season it was rather a surprise that Christchurch should not only defeat Addington but in doing so should score four tries to two. Linwood kept Sydenham at bay and Papanui won comfortably against Kaiapoi. Only Papanui appears to have any strong challenge to Linwood and the holder, Hornby, for the cup this season. Results:— Hornby 10, Marist 5. Christchurch 18, Addington 10. Papanui 30, Kaiapoi 9. Unwood 19, Sydenham 9. Tavendale Cup points are: Hornby 8, Linwood 8, Papanui 6, Sydenham 4, Christchurch 4, Marist 2, Kaiapoi 0, Addington 0.

Bray In Fine Form

HORNBY 10: R. O. Moffat. W. Woodgate, tries; G. Woodgate, two goals. MARIST 5: W. D. Berl, try; J. K. Keremeta, goal. Supremacy In the scrums—the Marist hooker, N. M. Diggs, was Injured and forced to leave the field In the second half—and an early try by Moffat were vital features In Hornby’s third defeat of Marist this season. But possibly the most Important element was the outstanding form of the Hornby captain, J. M. Bray. He was everywhere, marshalling his backs and initiating moves that forced Marist back. The Marist stand-off half, Berl, also played well and combined efficiently with J. T. Wood. C. C Worters ran well on the wing. D. A. Condick caused much strife in the Marist defence with his strong, bustling runs from the rucks. He was well supported by G. Woodgate. As usual, L. Mulcare played magnificently in the Marist pack in spite of a cut eye. After nearly 20 years of senior footbail Mulcare still retains the enthusiasm lacking in many younger players and his defence was again outstanding. Referee: Mr R. A. Pont. Linwood Turns Tables

LINWOOD X»: M. Morgan (3). G. Abercrombie and B. Williams, tries; J. Paston, two goals. SYDENHAM »: F. Clark, try; A. Tuuta. three goals. Having been beaten by Sydenham in a championship match earlier in the season, Linwood turned the tables on its old rival at Linwood Park to retain its joint lead in the Tavendale Cup series with Hornby. The game was scrappy for most of the time except near the end, when several good movements were seen. Linwood established an early lead with a quick try in the corner, and from then never looked like being headed. Both sides suffered from the requirements of the Canterbury team and this tended to upset the combinations.

In the Linwood backline, Abercrombie, Morgan and W. Godfrey had good games. Abercrombie scored one good try tn beating at least five defenders. and Morgan scored a hattrick of tries for the third time this season. In the forwards the captain, J. Flanagan, again played well, and led his side in determined fashion. Other forwards to impress were Williams, who made several good breaks, and the prop, Paston. Sydenham’s best forwards were B. Barron and F. Taipari. Barron did his best to rally the side, but was never able to get it functioning as a unit.

In the second half Barron took drastic measures when he made several changes in the team. He moved the representative winger, C. Preece, from the backs into the second row and w. Karina into the pack as well. One of the forwards, J. Tapara, was moved on to the wing. Referee: Mr K. Henry. Faulty Passing Seen PAPANUI 30: M. R. Napier (3), S. Dunn (2), and J. C. Hawthorne tries; Hawthorne (4), C. Schwass (2) goals. KAIAPOI 9: R. McNamara a try; J. L. Bond three goals. At Bradford Park in a game which was scrappy and with the result never in doubt, Papanui beat Kaiapoi, 30-9. The margin might well have been wider had not faulty handling and passing, particularly in the first half, let Kaiapoi out of difficulties.

Papanul's front row won a monopoly of ball from the scrums, and although the team did not always make the best use of it, some poor tackling by Kaiapoi and strong running by the three-quarters, Napier in particular, led to six tries After 38 minutes in the first half, Papanui won a scrum on its own line and B. Allen ran wide from the base of the scrum, broke through the Kaiapoi backline, drew the full-back and passed to Hawthorne who raced 50 yards to score by the posts.

Almost on full-time, after a series of bruising runs by Kalaool’s forwards, T. L. Blsman. the Papanui captain who had been prominent throughout, broke on the blind side well in his own territory, passed to the full-back, K. Allen, who made around and passed outside to Napier. Napier beat a man and handed back Infield to Allen

who immediately passed again to Dunn who ran 30 yards to score under the posts. The referee was Mr P. Yaxley. Christchurch Causes Upset

CHRISTCHURCH 18: J. Williams (2), D. Robinson and R. H. Turton tries; W. Morrison three goals. ADDINGTOH 10: P. Turnbull and A. F. McNaughton tries; J. Vivian two goals. Christchurch combined efficiently under the inspired leadership of its captain, R. H. Turton, to score an upset victory

over Addington. Playing at halfback, Turton directed play with pressure and frequently caught the defence on tne wrong foot with his side-stepping breaks. Addington was too unimaginatlve on attack and sluggish on defence to match Christchurch and never seemed capable of winning. An unpleasant feature of the game was the frequent questioning of the referee’s deci-

sions by players of both sides, D. Robinson, at stand-off half, and the right-wing, J. Williams, had productive games for Christchurch, as did E. Bennett and B. Phiilpson in the pack. For Addington A. Mcßeath and R. Cotter were hard-work-ing forwards and M. Wynn and J. Vivian were enterprising in the three-quarters. The referee was Mr J. Hillsdon.