Excelsior

NZ Truth, Issue 1237, 15 August 1929, Page 16

Excelsior

(From "N.Z. ; Truth's" Greymouth . . ... ' Hep.) ' •THE senior Rugby competition has been closed and the Excelsior

team (Hokitika) has been declared winners. The award will be popular all over the district, as, Excelsiors have a fine record and have provided some sterling players of the game for rep. teams.

Since the championships first began ori the West Coast, Excelsior have put up a fine record. *n 1927, they secured the Citizens Shield In a knock-out competition which Included senior teams of every club under the West Coast Union. They repeated their success last year

McEnaney

For the senior Cham plonshlp and the right to hold the MeKechnie Cup,- Excelsiors have been successful for the past two years, and they have now won a third time. For the past two years, they have only once been defeated, Blaketown beating them In the first game this season.

Excelsiors finished up the competition on Saturday by giving Stars (Greymouth) a trouncing. The score, 18 to nil, could quite easily have been greater, as Freltas, who can usually be depended on to carry the whole team on his baok, was allowed to go unmarked. -

' Blaketown met and drew with Kiwis (Hokitlka), on Saturday, 13 all, providing a most interesting game for spectators. McEnaney, Blaketown's captain, who can always be relied on to play a snappy game on the wing, has done well to get his team home as runners-up to the Excelsiors m the .competition, and can consider his team has done remarkably, well for its 'first season m senior Rugby.