FOOTBALL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5467, 28 August 1929, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

KNOCK-OUT COMPETITIONS. SATURDAY’S ARRANGEMENTS. Two knock-out finals are down for Saturday. In the seniors East and West will meet to do battle for the Drysdale Cup. West have already disposed of Pirates, who in their turn defeated Veterans, white East have a victory over Suburbs to their credit. To have defeated the club competition winners shows how materially East have improved since they first took the field this season, so West will have a hard proposition to face in a rejuvenated team. A sterling, wellfonght game ought to be the result. The East and West juniors also face each other in a knock-out game, the final for the Williams Cup. In this event there are no previous results to judge by. as West had a bye and Suburbs defaulted in. their game with East. The Pirates club, of course, has no juni.;r team. East won the junior club competition, but that does not mean to say by any manner of means that they can shelve West in a knockous.

Altogether, Paeroa with two knockout finals in one day is very fortunate and there should be a big gate to witness two such important games with four local teams involved. The West senior team will be chosen from the following: Fraser, Vause, Vercte, Wells, Verran. Swann, Poland, L. Nield, L. C. Masters, Beagley, Brown, Hamilton, Knight, Carrick, Taylor, Page, Henderson, and 'McKee.

The East senior team will be chosen from the following: Treanor, McQuarters, E. Moore, McNeil, Eskrigge, Catlin, H. Moore, Nea’ie, Neil, Ganley, Neil, Fitch, Johnson, Murray, Kusabs. and Allison.

East Juniors.—M. Curtis, A. N. Other, Wilkinson, K. Curtis, R. Mead, L. Masters, C. Vincent, J. Walls, Ashcroft, Clayton, Gamble, Miller, Capill, Barclay, Hol well. Emergency, G. Williams.

West Juniors.—E. Verran, C. Kaio, P. Poland, R. Alp, R. Wells, B. Gwilliam, T. Duffy, C. Nield, C. Williams, A. Power, N. Handley, T. Duffy, P. Holes, D. Currie, B Hargreaves. Emergencies : Backs, Wickliffe, Gleeson, Moses; forwards, F. Williams, Bramley, L. Nealis. • THE PEACE CUP. Now that the Hamilton sub-union is the holder of the Peace Cup, it has been agreed to give Waipa and Cambridge a direct challenge for the trophy, the former being allotted September 7 and Cambridge September 21. The latter date is very late for Cambridge, but the club hopes to keep a team together. As there is every likelihood that Waipa will not take up their challenge, Cambridge will probably endeavour to secure the earlier date. t According to the agreement entered into by the sub-unions concerned, Piako by its defeat of Paeroa last Saturday now the competition, and has been offered September 25 or 28 as a date. ROLLER MILLS SHIELD GAMES PUBLICATION OF DRAW. The Thames Valley primary school representatives, under the managership of Mr E. Turner, of Hikutaia, left for Auckland by the 1 o’clock train on Monday afternoon to take part in the Roller Mills Shield competition. Following is the draw :— , A Section.—First round : Auckland South v. King Country; Waipa v. South Auckland Second round : Auckland South v. Waipa; King Country v. South Auckland. Third round: Auckland South v. South Auckland ; King Country v. Waipa. B Section. —First round : Auckland Central v. Thames Valley ; Auckland North, a bye. Second round : Auckland Central v. Auckland North; Thames Valley, a bye. Third round : Thames Valley v. Auckland North ; Auckland Central, a bye. ' The winning teams in each section will play in the final. PAEROA RUGBY UNION. WEEKLY MEETING. The regular meeting of the Paeroa Rugby Union management committee was held on Monday night, Mr J. Crosby, chairman, presiding over the following • Messrs D. Frost, J. C. H. McDonald, W. Neil, H. Robinson, J. Walmsley, and W. A. Fathers, hon. secretary. Poland Cup Fixture. The Poland Cup fixture Paeroa v. Hauraki Plains, set down for play at Ngatea on Saturday, has been postponed a week. General. The registrations of E. Handley and C. Holes for West juniors were approved. The application of Pirates to play at Coromandel on September 7 was granted. The secretary was instructed to write to the Thames Rugby Union advising that owing to the lateness of the season the Paeroa Union would be unable to fulfil challenges for the Birch and Johnston cups. The arranging of a match between East and West in the Drysdale Cup competition for • Saturday next was left in the hands of the chairman and secretary, with power to act. In the meantime, the representative team to play Hauraki Plains, as submitted by the selector, was approved. The secretary was instructed to write to ti e Thames Rugby Union expressing regret that the playing of the popular home and home matches had to be abandoned. The secietary was instructed to write to the Thames Valley Rugby Union and ask if it had received any advice to grant £3 15s to the Primary Schorls Rugby Union. The secretary was instructed to

write to the Tauranga Rugby Union and invite it to play a match on September 21. Messrs W. Neil and J. Walmsley were appointed voluntary gatekeepers for Saturday. Accounts totalling £8 13s 6d were passed for payment. Saturday’s Matches. Seniors.—East v. West, Drysdale Cup competition. Juniors.—East v. West.,, Williams Cup competition. Third Grade.—The matter of making arrangements was left in the hands of tie secretary. CRITICISM OF PLAYERS. (By “Onlooker.”) PAEROA V. PIAKO. The Piako team did not have such an easy win on Saturday as was expected, and will have to do much better when they play Hamilton for the Peace Cup. T. Goldsbury at full-back played a poor game, much below representative standard. His kicking and taking the ball lacked judgment Crowe and Reid, on the wings, both played fair games. N. Ifwersen was not very brilliant, and too much was expected from Karl, his brother, who did not get many chances. Rackham played well, being coached by Ifwersen most of the time. This player is good on attack but not too sound on defence. Nicholson at half-back had a lot to do, and opened the game up well after half-time. The pick of the forwards was Payne. He is a good man in the line-out and played a hard game. F. Goldsbury has played better games, and Mulgrew did not show up as he did when playing for the Thames Val--ley team. Rare at full-back for Paeroa has played better games. McCollum on the wing does not play with the same dash that he did at the start of the season. McNeil had no luck with him on Saturday, otherwise he may have scored at least two tries. McGarvey was patchy at times, but can play good football. Swann was the best back playing for Paeroa, and gave the opposition no chances. He had bad luck in getting hurt in the second half, and this stopped him quite a lot. A. C. McCollum had a lot to do at half-back, and played a sound game. He would have been better playing five-eighths. N. Neil played his best game this season, and made a difference in the front row. This player is good on defence. Fitch played a better game than usual, and was well supported by the rest. Carrick was the outstanding forward in the Paeroa pack, and had had luck in being tripped when in a nice handy position for scoring NOTES. £ Arrangements are being made for the high school football tean s in the Thames Valley to play a tournament after the school holidays, with the object of selecting a team to meet the Bay of Plenty high schools representative team, possibly at Tauranga.