NAPIER DEFEATS HASTINGS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 183, 20 August 1937, Page 9

NAPIER DEFEATS HASTINGS

Fourth-Grade Match i Bright and interosting plav was pro- | vided by the Hastings and Napier i fourtli-grade representatives in the se- 1 cond curtain-raiser, botb teams giving | good performances. The Napier side | had tbe better backs but tbe home team | exeelled among the forwards. The = honours went to Napier by 1G points ; tc 14. - ] The teams were as follow: — 4 Hastings. — Moriarty; Tong, Morley, | •I. Jallray; Keong, 'i'. Jaft'ray: Cooke; = Krebs, O'Gonnor, Spencer, Hooper, i Paul, Cunningham, McF.rliuh, Wliimp. '■[ Napier. — Montgomery; Eddy, WorU- \ man, Reardon; Bculiin, Gray; Deaii; j DoVvniug, Liddeil, Ormond, Wtewart, i Alartin, Freer, Stowe, Kilpatrick. | The scoring in the first spell was all | done in the first 15 minutes of the f game. Liddeil scored a try which Scul- | Hn converted for Napier, the latter also | kicking a penalty goal. A field goai | by T. Jaffray for Hastings made the 5 lialf-time score 8 — ±. | Hpnours fluctuated excitingly in the | second spell when both sidas adopted | tl.e open style of play to give a splen- | did exhibition. Additional scores for | Hastings were recorded by Cooke who | gained a try wliich. he converted, and | Jverbs, whose try was converted by T. | Jaffray; whilst Napier 's tally was in- | creased by Ormond and fcitewart who | each scored a try, oue being converted | by Scullin. | Mr j. Patrick refereed. i