MATCHES DESCRIBED

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 85, 12 April 1937, Page 15

MATCHES DESCRIBED

WELLINGTON V. MARIST 40.8,

Although ythe weather was /oppressively warm for football, and many of the-players were strange to one another, some-very bright movements were seen,in .the -game in-which Wellington and:Marist Old Boys-Avere engaged on Athletic.Park. The teams were:— '

Wellington.—Lang; Edwards, Kelly, Paterson; '.Trapp, Veitch; /Thompson; Climo,' Almond, Cooper, McLean, Fraser-Smith, . Couplandy Carlyon, Stevens. In the second haiff, McLoughlin replaced Paterson and Shirley replaced, (Jarlyon. . . Marist.—Frost; Scanlom, Sheehan. Rennie;. Moriarty, Langdon;, Brown; Elliott, Ingpen, Hargceaves,," Ryan, Meadows,' Donoghue, Beters,; Tietjens. In the second half, Scanlon, Sheehan, Rennie, Moriarty, Brown, Elliott, Ryan, and Tietjens were replaced by. Cunningham, Shivas,. McGreevy, Morgan, Quinn, O'Brien, Tait/ and Reid. In the first spell the .Wellington backs1 moved well. They' had a plentiful supply of the ball from the scrums, and Thompson, the new scrum-half, gave his passes accurately. The supports, handling well, made good openings for the wing-three-quarters : to make ground. The three-quarters obliged to some pusrpose, and Paterson scored three tries and made another for Trapp., .Edwards:rnade.abrilliant;burst from;half-way;, ;i]ahd^. ..•,"when■•'.• yclear, veered infieldrto' give a(simple:,try ;to Coupland under the ppsts. Trapp-had his kicking boots on, and converted all five tries scored in the first half/which ended with leading by 25 points.to nil.' ? - ' : -. . Marist made several changes in their team for the.-'secori'd half, and Wellington made two! "The fresh men for Marist opened up briskly, and kept the Wellington■> men ploying, but combination was missing,", and '■ Wellington again., assumed ;the upper hand with consequent accretions to their total. Again the wing-three-quarters ■ .were prominent in, the ~try-getting ,^yith'.Edp Ed-wards's-'runs' weres'splendid, and he wove some pretty patterns in and put amongst the opposition. Three tries came his'way, two of them as the result of sprints from almost half-way. On the o.ther wing, McLoughlin, a newcomer who replaced Paterson, also showed pace and.two tries went to.his credit. Kelly scored the other try:with a dash infield which seemed to catch, the Marist, backs napping. Some good' individual -bursts were made by; Marist, but things would go awry at the critical time with the,goal-line.art sight. The only Marist. try was scored by Donoghue at the end of a loose.rush which took- the -forward over. the. litre in'a handy position ■'for- Cunningham to convert, and the same kicker-.also kicked a penalty." Trapp, who. had been; so successful in the first half'with his conversions, failed . with all six attempts to convert.in:the second,spell., The.,final .score was:. Wellington 43, i Marist 8. . . -.. .Mr. A.-R. Morris was referee..