VARSITIES BEAT WELLINGTON B
WELLINGTON, July 7. , Often brilliant and for mosl of the timo highly interesting, the match between New Zealand Yarsities and Wellington B resulted in a win for Universities by 20 points to .14. The game was played at Athletic Park on Waturday before a crowd of about 14.000, in j exeellent weather. Yarsity got pleuty| of the ball in the line-outs and scrums i and their backs thrust more but Wel-j lington showed almost iudominitable j resislance under pressure. The geueral 1 brightness of the play could be gauged i from the i'uet that of tlie total points,! only seven came from kicking, the re-| mainder being the result of tries, of;' which there were nine, all following on , sustained forward and back moves or | sparkling dashes by the backs. For ! Universities Groome, Jacob (2), EJvidge, Kelly and Sliannon went over, Greig converting oue try. For Wellington Jaeger (2) and Dalton scored, Sewell kicking a penalty and Yaughau converting onc try.
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Chronicle (Levin), 8 July 1946, Page 7
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