WELLINGTON BEAT CANTERBURY
WELLINGTON, Sept. 29. In the final representative fixtui-e of tlie season here, Wellington beat Can-terbui-y;. 21-, tp 9.->t ; Atliletlc Park o^h .Sat;ui-dayi-'WdiHfig;ton again owed mucjk ' of theif ' stiCeess ' to' the superiority oi' the forwards whose consiste'nt backing up led to many scoring movenients. Both sides attempted to open up the play from all angles but tlie majority of these efforts brolce down or were not well eonceived. The result was a great deal of scrappy plav. Wellington were better ablo to capitalise on the faults of their opponents and rallied better on defence. On the wliole the match was a disappointing display in which the issue seldom appeared in doubt. Tries were-seored for Wellington by Svenson, O'Brien, Burke, Colquhoun and Mason, Wishnowsky converting three. Rankine and O 'Neill scored for Canterbury and Kelly kicked a penalty. 0
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Chronicle (Levin), 30 September 1946, Page 8
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