Rugby Lesson For C.B.H.S. Team

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31087, 16 June 1966, Page 16

Rugby Lesson For C.B.H.S. Team

The Christchurch Boy’s High School Ist XV lost a game on its home ground yesterday and the team’s prodigious points scorer, L. Legge did not kick one goal.

, Under normal circumstances, these occurrences would have caused rumblings in Rugby circles. But no-one at Straven road yesterday was very concerned, for the winning side was the Cantabrians, dispensing with Rugby knowledge in generous amounts in beating the school team, 23-6. The game was highly entertaining, with both sides giving a sparkling display of handling. The speed of the school side was countered by the

greater experience of the Cantabrians in winning the ball and putting it to the best possible use. The Ist XV did well to held the invitation team to a score of three-all at half-time, but the dam broke soon after and the Cantabrians poured through to score four tries—all converted—through some brilliant back movements.

The try which drew the greatest response from the predominantly schoolboy gathering on the side-lines was that scored by R. Jones, a Ist XV squad member who replaced an injured P. A. Hutchinson early in the second half.

Jones, on the right wing, made the most of a swift service from his inside backs to sprint around the defence and hurl himself across the goalline. Given Their Heads N. Teague and N. S. Roberts, two old hands from the Canterbury Ranfurly Shield era of 1953-56, helped D J. Graham and C. R. Hockley and four younger forwards to win a plentiful amount of ball, and with T. L. Mehrtens showing pace and penetration at first five-eighths, the Cantabrians were given their beads.

P. B. Vincent kicked a goal and engineered two tries with disarming nonchalance, and another former All Black. R. M. Smith, handled, swerved and side-stepped in the classic manner of his palmy days. In the school team S. Jolley made a good job of marking a determined A. G. Steel, H. Joseph figured prominently in several attacks and R. W. Anderson—who played first at lock and later at full-back-showed ability in both phases of play. For Cantabrians, Mehrtens, Jones, Smith, J. Ryan, and G. Walkinshaw scored tries, D. C. Leary converting three and Vincent one. Joseph and D. Phillipson scored tries for Boys’ High School.