TWO ROUNDS AND FINAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 129, 17 June 1937, Page 4

TWO ROUNDS AND FINAL

Suggestion Made to Rugby ' Union SENIOR C0MPETIT10N The suggeation that n^xt season the senior Hastings-Napier Rugby compefcition should be played in two xounds and that the winner of eaeh round * should play off at the end.of the 'season t;0 decide the champion team was mad# to the meeting of the Hawke 'a Bay Rugby Union last night in Napier, I| was deeided to discuss the suggestion at the annual meeting of the nnion. This form of competition is played in Palmerston North, and also in Auckland, and holds a great advantage in that it will help to sustain interest in the cooapetition among teams who have been praetically eliminated in the first round. By the playing of a second round it would be possible for such team still to win the competition if it showed an improvement at th® beginning of the second round. Members pointed out, however, that the system would be unfair in the- case of a team which began the season in full training only to find that another team whieh had not reaehed top form until the second round was able to' wrest the championship from it. The chairman, Mr. J. W. Norrie, ruled that the proper place for such a discussion was the annual meeting, and it was decided to defer it until then,