RUGBY.

Hutt News, Volume 3, Issue 4, 19 June 1930, Page 10

RUGBY.

PETOtfE 20, HUTT 16.

SouaadeT tactics, superior hookers, plus brilliant play on tsie "part of Comau proved too much for the. less.

experienced. Hutt.'fifteen. Having the » wind in their favour in the first haflf, the reds did not make the most of their opportunities. With a strong following ■wind "up and.under" should Jiave been tfav order from.the kick off/but it was not until more than half the spell'had gone that the local players adopted.the correct tactics. By this time t&ey had a deficit of eight points ..to wipe off, whiflftu they were able to do by half time. Although beaten fox the ball in

the tt&jority of set scrums/Hutt had

many opportunities, wiiich could have > • been turned into points had the backs been on their game. Feeney at first Aye-eighths was right off colour with the result that many promising chances were lost, whack otherwise might -have borne fruit. It was also evident that the JButt forwards lost opportunities of opening up the game from the line outs. By .keeping the play tight they were playing tiglht into Petone's hands,-as the blues fielded their heaviest pack •wih© a&t out to wear down the opposition. That Hutt were able to finish better than their opponents' again demon■taa&ed the value of fast forwards, and had tie reds persisted in loose rushes . tSiey znust have finished up with points j to spare. Some of their rushes during the laftt ten minutes of the game had the Betone defence pToperly rattled, #nly bad luck keeping them from scoring. The Hubt backs improved considerably during the latter part of the second spell and were going very well at the finish.. Pc-tone rattled on twelve points early after the interval and at one stage it looked as thougih. they would come home easy winners. A nice try "by Pomare whidhrthat player converted, reduced the margin to seven' points. Hutt made strenuous efforts to score again, failing by inches on two ot tihree occasions. However, a penalty | two minutes before time allowed Pomaro to convert." The remaining time •was too short for Hmtit to score again, wltihough a try was possible had not one ©f the Hutt backs swung the attack tihe wrong way, when he had t&ree men uraiting on the open side with the defence out of position. Hutt have no. reason to feel ashamed of theiT showing on tieir initial appearance at. the *>Park,"..and.-it is quite on the cards tthslt tttuey will play there again before -the season is over. A return match ijvith Petone would be a great draw.The blues are a hard team to beat, particularly on the Park, as they Jiave played a lot of their matches t&ere, but the local players must benefit considerably by their experience in this game, and improve their play a good deal before the match, jarman made a couple of bad mistakes during tite .game, one of which cost iis side a try, In the first instance he tried to field a, —. ball when the obvious thjng to do was to tap it out of bounce. ApaT.t frbiri these lapses Jarman played fairly sound By. Russell should have stopped Walker's try. A good; solid bump would 2iave sent tifoe winger out of touch. ÜBall was the best of the wings, al- '" though he got very little to do. Petone saw to it that the play did not. come lis way, it being .quite obvious that : -fchey were taking adl. fhe play to Rusfeeii's side. Pomare was the Voutstand-

ing back on the Hiitt-side, and appears, ,-^er.jfco improve with everygame.'Thirteen /out of the sixteen points scored were credited to this player. He would be

well advised to take more care with his place kicking. Cooke was closely.watched, but managed to make a couple of nice breaks, which,' with a little lue.k might have been- turiied to good account. Feeney was right off his game on attack,.but did his share of defensive work.:- McKay had' a heavy afternoon's work trying to get the ball' 'away from the blue forwards. Under ijbe circumstances his display was quite good. Monigatti was not a success at •wing forward.. He stood too far away from ••the scrum witth the result that he presented Coman with one try. He changed places with E. Hinton in the second spell and an improvement was noticed in-both positions directly this was dbne. B. Hinton was the outstanding forward on the ground. This player should be Teft on tie side of the serum as he is eminently suited for the job. Peek was suffering front a bad knee and should not have gone on in thesecond spell. He did-his qhiare of line ' out work but was not able to do justice to himself in the loose - play. Skilton caught t&e eye a lot in the line: ouit and tight work. Roberts, H. Hinton, Wood and Dowsett were prominent :many times. - - LOWER GRADE RESULTS. Junior A'shad a bye. . The Junior B's defeated Wellington B 14—6. Tiny McGruire volunteeer'ed to take this team in hand and it was entirely due to his efforts that the B's mustered a full fifteen and one to spare. From now on t&ey should notch a few points for the club as theTe is some good material to work on. • The Thirds defeated Eastbourne 35-0. ■ Fourths won from Athletic 3—o. Fifrt&s went under to Melrose 32—0. This team played with. 11 men. '.•' The Sixths were also s&orthanded in their match against Petone, who won by 9—o. , '■■ ' NOTES. : Nieholds fooled Cooke badly -when sic cut in^ for Petone's first try. Cooke. put "paid" to his account a couple, of times. later in the game but unfortunately was bagged "by "some of the forwards. . . Pomare's .-try resulted through Cooke drawing- ijTichoMs, Lambourne and Pollock, a timely transfer enabling^the centre to cut clean through under tlie posts. Referee Leith had a habit of getting in the half back's road. Hutt hooked the ball twice in t&e south-western corner and on each occasion McKay had to run found the referee before lie could "get his pass out—valua/ble time lost. Jarman. made one great run down the ' centre, from' which his forwards carried on right up to t-he corner flag. Ball", made some determined efforts to get through' on the grandstand side. It was ""hard watching this good player doing a freeze during the greater part of the game. Hu'fct will be minus the services of C'coke and Peck for this week's game. T^.6 latter will have to lay off fof a couple of weeks while his knee gets right «p"di:.