CHATHAM CUP GAME
SWIFTS WIN REPLAY
Greater speed and a shrewder appreciation of the tactics of the game gave Swifts an easy 4-2 Win over H6§f>ital In the replay o£ their flrst-rdUrid Chatham Cup game at the Bagiß Reserve.
file pfetloug eiicounter ended in a 2-ftil dfaW, \Vitli t)ifc going good*' from the spec* tatofs' viewpoint, all the way, but on gatuf « day tt was a less exciting game. Swifts weiit iiito ah early lead and half-way through the first spell were tW6 goals up. After" that the tssiie was never1 In doubt; Hdspital did most 6? the attacking thra«gh&ut the game, but their forwards did not compare frith Swifts, and their backs could not repel the nippy Swifts vangiiafd, though they Weiit bettef In the second spoil. Baker and Hickmdtt BCOfed the first two goals for Swifts, aftd Baker got the third before the interval. Heath placed Swifts four up at the start of the second spell, and though tfrewick netted twice before; the end Swifts gave the impression that they (tlwaya Had CotttrOi of the game. J?lay* was not nearly" sG Willing as It was in tUo first nleeting of the teaffis.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 2, 3 July 1939, Page 17
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194CHATHAM CUP GAME Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 2, 3 July 1939, Page 17
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