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NZ Truth, Issue 1179, 5 July 1928, Page 14

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Pirates' Flag Still Flying (From "N.Z. Truth's" Hawkes Bay Rep r ) A great deal of Bay interest is centred m the meeting of, Wairarapa and the "magpies" at Masterton on Saturday. THE following players have been 'selected to represent the Bay: Yates (full-back); Huxtable, Blake, Law (three-quarters); South, Bennett (five-eighths) ; Setford (half) ; Gordon Ormond (rover) ; Strachan, J. Gemmell, Campbell, Steeve, Wilson, S. Gemmell and Tankard (forwards). They are a very strong combination and superior to the Bay team that on June 3 played Wairarapa. • With the recent improvement m the Hastings team it was fully expected this clvb 1 would fully extend the leaders (Pirates) at Napier last Saturday, but they failed miserably, going down by eighteen ' points (21-3). • , ' Pirates' record oyer the past seven years is something to be proud of. They have figured each year as Winners or runners-up and can be Justly classified as one of the strongest clubs' m the Dominion. In the first spell Hastings were down only two points and their exhibition was such .that their supporters had grounds to expect their team to win. Hastings were a little unlucky. \The second spell saw Pirates get a •gvip on the game and they took control m all departments to add a further 16 points to their opponents' nil. Huxtable, the rep. winger, played centre, showing to as much advantage as he did m his right place. During; the game he scored three tries and on present form is a decided possibility . m. this year's All Blacks. • Yates was unable to take his place with his clubmates, a factor considered to favor Hastings, but • Pirates' organization was not imj paired m the slightest. !.Hebberley, a Bay representative who j has not , played for some time, once again donned the jersey for Pirates, playing right up to past good form. . GraSsed Wrong Man Technical defeated Marist by 12 to nil m a game that called for little applause, but which was more even than the • score indicates. The winners' score was made up of one try and three penalties. 'The game contained but little incident; the exception being Kelly's try. This promising young player in' a brillfant move gathered the ball m off the i Marist forwards' feet, swerved m beau- ". tifuliy and scored a dandy try. Another incident that highly amused the crowd occurred when ' one of the Tech. players, getting away with the ball m a flying start and when. looking dangerous, was T brilliantly grassed by. one of his 'own side. Celtic and M.A.C., who 1 both play the same open style. of Rugby, were ex- • pected to furnish a game well worth watching, but it was lamentably the reverse. '• .y'y