RUGBY FOOTBALL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23916, 18 September 1939, Page 5

RUGBY FOOTBALL

SATURDAY’S MATCHES

OTAGO BEATS NORTH OTAGO

WIN FOR CANTERBURY COLLEGE

The only Rugby match of importance to be played in Dunedin ■ on Saturday was the game for the Payne Trophy at Carisbrook, which resulted in Union being defeated by Canterbury University College, winners Of the Christchurch senior competition, by 13 points to 12 At Oamaru, Otago beat North Otago by 18 points to 11. The following are the results of tilie principal matches played on Saturday Points. : Points., Otago 18 North Otago .. .. .. ll Canterbury College ~ 13 Union 13 Auckland •• >. 11 Wellington 5 Taranaki .. .. .. 34 King Country .... 8 Fijian Team .. .. 14 Maoifis 4 Canterbury .. .. .. 19 South Canterbury .. 12 Southland .. .. ..25 Wapganui .. .. .. 19

PAYNE TROPHY MATCH UNION v. CANTERBURY COLLEGE WIN FOR VISITORS The Payne Trophy matches between the winners of the senior competitions, in Dunedin and Christchurch respectively were commenced in 1923. and they have been continued ever since, with the exception of 1937 By the win on Saturday Christchurch teams have been successful on It) occasions and Dunedin teams on four occasions and two games have been drawn It was the turn of the Christchurch champions to come to Dunedin this year, and the two teams concerned were Canterbury College and - Union Both teams wear the Maroon colour so Union played in light blue jerseys. Carlsbrook was in fine order but there was heat in the rays from a glaring sum and some of the players were tiring: before, the final whistle went. The game was watched by about 3000 spectators, Oind they were treated to a fairly interesting: game, with some ex* citing moments in the final stages. There were many infringements, especially at the scrums,, much broken play, and plenty :of whistle from the referee..' - ; ; Considerable: Interest was displayed in the appearance of Cartwright, the college wing three-quarter who had made a very favourable impression when he played here earlier in the season against the University team, and also in the appearance of McAuliffe. half-back, and Hunter, the centre. Cartwright • did not receive many opportunities of showing his worth, as the passing of his inside men seldom got as far as him, and he was faced with a determined opponent in the Otago wing three-quarter Werner. II was really Kimberley, the outside five-eighth, who showed up most consistently in the passing movements from the scrums, and the McAuliffe-Ellls-Kimberley combination was much in evidence, in the second half especially, but for some reason or othei their work generally broke down at Kimberley. Ellis opened with some fine thrusts, but his attacks were later well checked by Walker and Slyfleld. and McAuliffe. behind the scrum, played a steady game, and exploited the reverse pass with judgment to Ellis. Hunter did not show up a great deal in the first half, but a swerve and speed proved him a dangerous attacking centre in the second, and he made the opposition look foolish when he passedl three or four would-be tacklers and scored at the post It appeared inexcusably weak defensive play on the part of the Union defenders, but that should not detract from a brilliant piece of work by Hunter Garrett, Wilson, and Lake were a sound trio to front the scrum, and they hooked the ball oftener than the Union pack. Williams was another solid man in the forward plav. It looked as if a great rush led by Williams and Wilson had resulted in a try for the former—this was in the second half—and it may be added that it also appeared that in the first half Werner had touched the ball down before he struck the corner flag. Walker, the Otago forward, whose weight is given as 14.3 in the guide, was played at first five-eighths for Union in place of Pollock, and he gave quite a useful showing. He generally took the ball well from Samson to pass to Mathewson. and he used the line with judgment. His defence was also sound. Walker would probably be the biggest first five-eighth playing in New Zealand to-day It was a pity that the Union backs could not make more play to Werner, as he showed what a dangerous attacking player he is with the few chances which came his way. Both Mathewson and Silver had plenty to do in defence and they generally managed to keep their , opponents well checked. A McKerrow was played at full-back for Union, bur he appeared to be very nervous Samson wlayed a useful game behind the scrum, but he was hampered at times by the college breakaway forwards, and Elder did not have a great deal to do, but no fault could be found with the manner in which he downed his man when on defence. It appeared that Silver was overambitious when he had a penalty kick in the last few minutes of the game when Union were a point behind The ball never got near the goal posts The tactics should certainly have been “up and under” if the game was to be won in the last minute or so Jenkins was put-hooked by Wilson but it looked at times as if he was no! getting all the weight he should have received at the scrums, and the best hooker in the world cannot get the ball from the scrums if his pack is outpushed. Ireland iustified his inclusion in the team, and Newall ano Vorrath well led the forward rushes Slyfleld, the Union loose forward, played his usual übiquitous and solid tackling game The teams were as follows;

Canterbury University College Back.—M. P Donhelly, J, S. Cartwright, A, G. Hunter, R. Hudson H. M.. Kimberley, A L. Ellis. J, J McAuliffe. Forwards.—P, G. Roberts. G. S, Walter, C. W. Williams, P. Lynch C C. Foote. H. E. Garrett. G. T. J. Wilson, and J. Lake. Union Backs.—A. McKerrow, L. Werner. R. Silver, D. Elder, R. Mathewson. J ' Walker. B. Samson, Forwards.—J. Anderson, C K Jenkins. T. Gensik, W Gibson. F. H. Vorrath. V Newall P Slyfleld, W Ireland. For the winners, Williams Huntei .and Cartwright scored tries, two .of which were converted by ,Ellis. For Union, Newall scored a which Was converted by;Silver, Mathewson kicked a field goal, and Silver, kicked a penalty goal, and the ■ game. ended with the scores:—. Canterbury University College 13 pts. Union .. ... ... .. ..t 12pts Mr D. McKay was the referee. ALL BUCK TRIAL MATCHES THIRTY-EIGHT PLAYERS GHOSEN MURRAY AND JOLLY FROM OTAGO (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, Sept. 17. The following 38 players have beer, chosen by Mr E McKenzie, sole New Zealand selector, to take part in the trial matches to be played in Welling ton next Saturday and on September 27 and 30 as preliminaries to the selection of the All Black team which is scheduled to tour South Africa nexi year:— Full-backs. —J. M. Taylor - (Welling ton), W. Hare (Auckland). Wing-threequarters.—J. S. Cartwright (Canterbury), R. G. Mahoney (Southland). C Cunningham (North Auckland), J. R. Sherratt (Wellington) D E. Murray (Otago). Centre-threequarters.—D. G Barton (Wanganui). J. Mollpy (Auckland), A G. Hunter (Canterbury) The lastnamed may also be tried on the wing Five-eighths:—C. A, Gibson (North Auckland), W Burgess, (Canterbury) C. Brown (Taranaki). G H Hook (Waganui). Half-backs. —D. Codling (North Auckland). E. T. Moss (Hawke’s Bay) Forwards. —D. Dalton (Hawke’s Bay), J. S' McKenzie (Ashburton), C Anderson (Poverty Bay), J. McLean (Taranaki). W H Jolly (Otago) A. G_ Davidson (Wanganui). E, L. Todd (Wellington). D. H. Herman (Canterbury), G. Mason (Duller). C H. Galley (Waikato). J, GilmOur (Auckland) P Rogers (Poverty Bay) W. H. Warrender (Waikato), R. R. Hull (Auckland). J Best (Bay of Plenty) H McPhail (Canterbury). G. Mills (South Canterbury). F, J. Cassidy (Wellington), B. Doig (Ashburton). G. Fowler (Taranaki). E. Strachan (North Otago). P K, Rhind (Canterbury). AIM EXCITING MATCH SOUTH CANTERBURY BEATEN (Per United Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 16 Canterbury beat South Canterbury by 19 points to 12 in a fast and exciting Rugby match this afternoon. The game was remarkable for the effective spoiling by both sides, and the large number of indeterminate, scrums and line outs Another feature common U both teams was the remarkably quick support by the forwards after back passing movements had broken down Taken all round, the Canterbury for wards had the better of the play, al though the South Canterbury pack shone in the loose rushes. Both sets of inside backs were inclined to be slow and as ' a result, the fast wingers. Roberts of Canterbury, and Morrison of South Canterbury were somewhal starved. South Canterbury opened the scoring with a fine penalty goal by Murphy, and after a combined back and forward movement, Roberts scorec for Canterbury. Ballantyne converting A try by Fitzgerald, converted by Murphy put South Canterbury in the lead by 8 points to 5, but Ballantyne equalised with a penalty goal, Ballantyne then scored and converted, and Morrison potted a goal, giving Canterbury a lead of 13 points to 12 at half time In the second spell, South Canternury failed to improve the score, but for Canterbury, Ballantyne scored an unconverted try. and kicked a penalty goal. TARANAKI’S EASY WIN KING COUNTRY BEATEN (Peb United Press Association) TAUMARUNUI, Sept. 16. Taranaki defeated King Country by 34 points to 8 The home team fielded a weak side, several players failing to turn out at the last minute. Brown, Killeen and J Sullivan handled with machine-hke accuracy and constantly harassed the weak defence. Crossman and Hardie were the only local backs to show any form. Taranaki won most of the scrums and line-outs, Coull and McLean being outstanding for Taranaki. J Sullivan scored two tries, and Murphy, McLean, C Sullivan, Brown, and Coull one each Murphy kicked a goal from a mark, and Adlim potted a goal and converted three tries. Davis scored for King Country, and Rozska kicked a penalty goal and converted a try.

FIJIAN TEAM WIN AGAINST MAORIS ‘Per United Press Association) HAMILTON. Sept. 16. In an exhibition of spectacular Rugby such as has not been seen in Hamilton for many years, the Fijians won the only test match of their tour and maintained their unbeaten record when they defeated the New Zealand Maoris by 14 points to 4. The game was the last of the Fijians’ tour, and it provided a great finale. Over 1200 people saw the match. The Fijians were in brilliant form, but the Maoris played well, and made the Islanders fight every inch of the way for their victory Lack of practice and consequent breakdowns in combination, however, resulted in weaknesses in the Maoris’ attack. At half time the Fijians , led oy ti points to nil, Bola and Vosaicake scoring. Later. Voreque and Ralawa scored, Cakobau converting the lAsl try. For -the Maoris Kotua landed a brilliant field goal. The speed, uncanny combination, and hard, low dive tackling by the tourists were features of the match, and conditions favoured the bright, .spectacular game qf the visitors, who threw the ball about with gay abandon from start to finish A CLOSE GAME AUCKLAND, BEATS WELLINGTON - (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND. Sept. 16. The' annual’ representative Rugby match between Auckland and Wellington at Eden Park to-day was won by the home team by 11 points to five The match was always interesting and Wellington would have scored more points but for a weakness at centre-three-quarter which caused many a movement to break down The first points came to Auckland after five minutes’ play Molloy. the Auckland centre three-quarter, touching down Twenty minutes later Schubert, the Auckland winger brought the home side’s tally to six with a good try. in which he ran half the length of the field, and Hare converted. Although Wellington raked the ball from the set scrums consistently, Auckland’s defence prevented dangerous movements from getting very far The Auckland backs played brilliantly and five minutes after the interval the fiveeighths, D. Brady ran over for a tryNot until half wav through the second spell did Wellington gain its points, Kenny scoring, for Cassidy to convert. Wellington’s marked superiority in the scrums was demonstrated by the fact that Lambourn heeled 28 times to the opposition’s 12. The best of the visiting team were A, Thompson, a five-eighth, T Dance, the full-back. A Wright;, the winger, and Lambourn, Todd. .Kenny, and Cooper, in the forwards , Brady played a brilliant game for Auckland as did his brother, the diminutive half-back. Hare’s kicking at full-back was responsible for keeping Wellington at bay. Carson, Hull, McLean, and Pearce were, the best of the home forwards. WANGANUI DEFEATED ■ " SOUTHLAND FORWARDS .. SUPERIOR (Per United Press Association) WANGANUI, Sept. 17. Fielding a much heavier and better knit pack of forwards, the Southland touring Rugby team beat Wanganui on Saturday by 25 points to 19, It was the most exciting and spectacular match of the big representative programme played here this year, and was really a duel between the Wanganui backs and the Southland forwards. If Wanganui had had the pack that Southland fielded the heme backs would have run up a much bigger score. The Wanganui inside backs were sharper in attack than Southland, and C. K. Saxton, the Southland firgt fiveeighth. certainly looked to be playing out of position. If he . had been halfback and not J. W. Purdue the play of A, G., Sutherland at centre would have been even brighter than it was. K, Welsh, the Wanganui first fiveeighth and Sutherland were the two best backs on the ground. Southland wheeled the pack splendidly in the second spell, thereby nullifying the value of E. J Callaghan the Wanganui hooker The weight of the visitors told in the end but a fair indication of the run of the play would have been a score of 20 points to 19 Wanganui throwing away five points earlv in the match by thinking that the ball had been forced. Tries were scored for Southland bv Soper and Sutherland (2). and S E Purdue.- Grace kicked a field goal and Fleming converted three tries and kicked a penalty goal. For Wanganui Glenn. Parnell and Hook each scored tries. Hook kicked two penalty goals and Barton converted two tries WAIRARAPA BEATEN A WIN FOR WELLINGTON B (Per United Press Association) . WELLINGTON, Sept. 16. Strengthened by the inclusion of several representative players who were unable to make the trip to Auckland, the Wellington B team had little difficulty in beating Wairarapa by 31 points to 20 at Athletic Park this afternoon. Both sides threw the ball about freely and though the football never reached a high standard, the game was entertaining from start to finish. The main factor in Wellington’s sue cess was the superiority of their backs both individually and as a combination Veitch was the spearhead of the attack and Reynolds and Baldwin both played good games Taylor played an outstanding game, repeatedly joining in passing rushes with the backs, and giving them an overlap He also showed better form at place-kick-ing than he has in recent games Nura erous injuries were a feature of the game. Among those who had to leave the field was J R. Sherratt. the wing-three-quarter, who was one of Wellington’s nominees for the trials He was solidly tackled by Broome, the Wairarapa full-back and received a /leg injury. MANAWATU BEATEN DECISIVE WIN FOR HAWKE’S BAY (Per United Press Association) HASTINGS Sept. 17, In their final match of the seasor. Hawke’s Bay decisively beat Manawatu at McLean Park. Napier, by 16 points to 6. The display was somewhat dour and disappointing. A visiting forward. I. Thorne, broke an arm in the closing stages of the match. SEDDON SHIELD DULLER RETAINS TROPHY (Per United Press Association) WESTPORT. Sept. 16. In wnal is regarded as the best Rugby match of the season and undei the most favourable weather conditions. Buller stalled off West Coast’s challenge for the Seddon Shield by 11 points to 9. thus retaining the shield for another season and winning a sequence of 11 matches for this trophy Honours of the day were very evenly shared by the forwards and backs, the latter putting in some scintillating pass ing rushes For the winners, Neighbours and Strachan (2) scored tries. Dunn converting one. For West Coast tries were scored by Blair and Vincent, and Linbom kicked a penalty goal.

NORTH ISLAND TEAM MATCH AGAINST SOUTH (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND. Sepl. 17. The following team has been chosen by the North Island selectors—Messrs E. McKenzie (Wairarapa). F W Lucas (Auckland) and T. French (Poverty Bay) to play for the North Island against the South in the annua) match at Wellington next Saturday;— Full-back.—H M Dyer (Hawke’s Bay). Three-quarters.—W. J. Phillips (Waikato), J. L. Sullivan (Taranaki) L. Schubert (Auckland). Five-eighths.—P J Reid (Hawke’s Bay). N. Pearman (Auckland). Half-back.—E W Tindill (Wellington). Front Row.—E. Jackson (Hawke’s Bay). A. Lambourn (Wellington) W N Carson (Auckland) Second Row.—S. T. Reid (Hawke’s Bay). M. McDonald (Hawke’s Bay), J. B. Coull (Taranaki) R M. McKenzie (Manawatu). Back Row.—A. W. Bowman (Hawke’s Bay). Emergencies.—Backs: D, Brady (Auckland), A. J. McAneney (Poverty Bay); forwards, H S. Benton (Taranaki). J. M. Taylor (Waikato). PRIMARY SCHOOLS OTAGO v. SOUTHLAND The annual representative match between the primary' schools of Otago and Southland was played at Cansbrook on Saturday as a curtain-raiser to the Payne Trophy game The local boys had too much pace for the opposing side, and a better knowledge of the Tame. The teams were as follows: Southland.—Backs—A. Ogilvy, C Gatehouse J. McDonald A, Livingstone, O. Halbert. A. Young, R Campbell; forwards —1. Wilson, J. Ross. E. Hillis, M Lang, W Wyatt. E Robinson, T. Cox, N Kerr. Otago.—Backs—Kitchen, Beardsmore, Dawson. Buckley, Watson, Dore Trainor: forwards —Turnbull, McArthur Judge Newall Dow. Jones Winter. Cuttle. Gatehouse made a good run to scoretor Southland, the kick at goal by Hillis failing, and Dow forced his way over to score for Otago Beardsmore missing the kick at goal. 3—3. Then Trainor scored for Otago Beardsmore missing the kick at goal, and Watson potted a goal At half time Otago was leading by 10 points to 3. In the second half Jones scored from a scramble near the line, and Trainor also scored both shots at goal failing— Otago 16 points. Southland 3. In the final stages Dore made a thrusting run and passed to Beardsmore, who scored and Beardsmore himself then raced through the defence in fine style to score at the posts. Watson kicking a goal.- Otago thus won by 24 points to 3 points. Mr W. Stewart was the referee. GRAND~FINAL IN SYDNEY WON BY UNIVERSITY (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) SYDNEY Sept. 17. (Received Sept. 17 at 9 p.m.) Sydney University raced away with a big lead in the Rugby Union grand final against Randwick at North Sydney, and although Randwick fought back gamely in the last spell University won 25 to 17. At half time University led by 17-0. Randwick’s captain Cyril Towers, was involved in a tram smash while en route to the ground. He then was knocked out during the game and after the interval had to receive ambulance 1 treatment