PAYNE TROPHY MATCH

Evening Star, Issue 22441, 11 September 1936, Page 12

PAYNE TROPHY MATCH

SOUTHERN AND SUNNYSIDE MEET TO-MORROW WELL-CONTESTED GAME ANTICIPATED The premier Rugby teams of Dunedin and Christchurch, Southern and Sunnyside respectively, will meet to-morrow at Carisbrook in the annual match tor the Payne Trophy, and a fast, lively game is, expected. Both sides performed well in the club competitions this year, and finished. with very creditable records. The Payne Trophy has not been won by a Dunedin team since it was taken from the Christchurch Club team by Otago University in 1927. In the eight years after that date the premier clubs of Christchurch were successful in retaining the trophy, and no doubt Southern will make a big effort to-morrow to bring it back to Dunedin. The kick-off in the game, the referee for which will be Mr N. Tilley, will take place at 1.15 p.m.‘ . The performances of both sides tins year seem to indicate that the match will be a well-contested one between two ' combinations whose team work is of a high standard. Southern this season played 13 games,' won 12, lost 1, and scored 297 points, - against 52. Sunnyside, on the other hand, played 14 matches, winning 11, losing 1, drawing 2, and- scoring 161 points, against;72. Statistics thus show that the sides should be fairly evenly matched. At the same time,,it w.as generally recognised that club football in Dunedin this year was of a higher standard than' in Christchurch, the being reflected in the representative football. Six of the Southern, men playing tomorrow are members of the Otago team that has done so well this year, and several others have represented the province on previous occasions, so that there is plenty of experience. of big football in the side. Of the visiting team, three of the forwards were members of the Canterbury team that was recently defeated by Otago, and one of the backs was an emergency. The Southern team is largely the combination that won the championship here this year, the only defections being those of McDonald from the forwards and Smith, from the centre three-quarter position. Both players were injured in representative games. The team for to-morrow, however, is a well-balanced ■ side, fast and versatile. The forwards, including Hore, Quaid, and Niven, of tho Otago team, will concede a good deal of weight to the visiting .pack, "but they should more than compensate for this by their experience and dash. .The aggregate weight of the Southern Ecruni will be 99.15 t, against llO.Sst in the Sunnyside scrum. In all the representative games this year, however, the Otago forwards have been outweiglited, but generally have been able to more than hold their own. The Southern backs have plenty of, pace, as they showed in club fotoball, and given a dry clay they should be able to make a good showing. The Sunnyside team is reported to be a sound, rather than brilliant, side that has played some excellent football in the Canterbury capital, this year, winning games through good team work against sides that were expected to upset the winner’s calculations. The forwards are particularly heavy, thepr advantage in weight proving the undoing of other Christchurch teams. Burke, Milliken, and Pablecheque were members of the Canterbury vanguard that recently met Otago, and are stated to bo a very useful trio- on a dry ground. The backs, it is said, are particularly strong in defence, this' being borne out by the fact that many fewer points were scored against Sunnyside than nearly all the other teams in Christchurch. In attack they are said to have plenty of thrust, and if they get a good share of the hall it remains to he seen how they fare against the Southern defence, which was also a very strong feature of the local team’s play this year. The teams frill lake the field to-mor-rofr as follofrs: —Sunnyside.— Full-back. —R. A. Fulton 13.6. Three-quarters.—W. H, Oliver 10.9, R. Chinnerv 12.10, W. Greer 13.0. Five-eighths.:—P. A. Hart 13.2, L. Morgan 12.7. Half-back.—R. J. Masters 10.8. Forwards. —G. Newton 15.4, R. Burke 12.10, H. M'Leod 12.0. H. Milliken 15 2 'w. F. Ellis 14.0, C. Pablecheque G. J. Howell 14.0, and J. Hartland 13.0. Reserves.—Backs: G. Bisphan 13.4. Forwards: L. A. Mahoney 13.10, G. Asher 12.0. —Southern.— Full-back. —E. Bolton 10.0. Three-quarters.—B. Tapley 12.10, A. Eckhold 10.10, W. A. Black 13.0. Five-eighths.—A. Churchill 10.9, D. Trovathan 12.9. Half-back.—H. Simon 11.0. Forwards.—R. Edwards 11.9, R. Fullerton 10-13, C. Qua id 13.7, L. Hill 13 3. C. Moreland 13.2. R. Neiner 11.0, L. Niven 13,0. ami J. Hore 12.9. Reserves. —G, Edwards, C. Inglis, % Holly J 2.3, A Tyrio 14.0.