Rugby Season Opens in Country Districts

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 336, 23 April 1928, Page 12

Rugby Season Opens in Country Districts

FIRST MATCHES 0E YEAR SOME KEEN CONTESTS (From Our Own CorrespondentJ The 1928 Rugby Union seasor. opened in many of the country districts surrounding Auckland on Saturday. Keen contests were witnesaei in most cases, and games in each district were favoured with good attend ances among both players and the public. HAMILTON Several hundred people attended lbopening match of the season at Hari:. ton on Saturday when Hamilton Old Bo}' met Grammar Old Boys at Rugby Par* The game was keenly contested fror. the kick-off, and although the Hamilti/ players had the advantage in the opening stages they were unable to mainto::. the pressure. Most of the members appeared to lack condition and were nearly exhausted at the end of the game. A: the close of the third quarter Hamil’a led by 14 points to 5. The visitors werin better condition than their opponentin the last spell, and added 10 points t their score, thus winning by one poin: Hawke, Griffiths and Brough scored for Hamilton, while Hawke converted h:try and kicked a penalty goaL Triewere scored for the visitors by J. Wilso: P. Skelton and Batty. A Singleto:. added the major points in each case. TE AWAMUTU The Waipa Rugby Union opened i’J senior competitions on Saturday. The big match of the day was Rove-.-v. Te Awamutu, and a very keen contest resulted. Play was fast throughof P. Quin opened the score by registering a great try, running 30 yards to tou«. r down near the corner flag. The scorwas equalised ten minutes later, wh*: G. Ticklepenny raced over for a try for Rovers. There was no further scoi> Three other matches were played again- - Hamilton teams. United seniors defeat-; Technical Old Boys by 14 points to E United Juniors drew with Marist ('la Boys, 3 points each; Te Awamutu jur - ors were defeated by Technical Old Bo'12—6. Another senior competition gar played at Owairaka ended in favour f>: Karamu, their score being 24 to Kamai’s 8. CAMBRIDGE Tho local Rugby Union s compete do not commence officially until May - but the first football matches played uu-' season were held yesterday at VictorSquare. Tauwhare juniors and a rmxc team from Hinuera played a dra« game, neither side scoring. Representatives of the Hamilton and Cambrw? Oddfellows also played a match, resulted in a win for Cambridge by *- points to 0. PAEROA The Paeroa Rugby Union opened season on Saturday. In a match betw* East and West seniors. West won bj •’ points to 4. The game was fast a®open: For West Swann scored a try’ kicked two penalty goals: Knight f *£ or r| a try which Masters converted. ham potted a goal for East. At Hi* • taia, Hikutaia defeated Pirates by - points to 6. In the junior grade " tv and Hikutaia played a drawn game. ** side scoring 6 points. For Went * o (* and Bailey scored, and A. Morns*" scored both tries for Hikutaia. f® . third grad« contest West defeated b* by 25 points to 3. WHANGAREI The first Rugby matches of the> •JgJJ at Whangarei were played on Auckland Training College defeatea Bovs bv 17 points to 8 and High defeated Old Boys in a junior game 9 points to 6. PUKEKOHE Practice matches played in the F*** l lin district resulted: White Star <By* kohe), 13, beat Tuakau, 6, at Tuu»“ Waiuku, 9. beat Power Board kohe). 6. at Pukekohe: Ramblers Jun * (Pukekohe), 13, beat Wesley College. OTOROHANGA A seven-a-side tournament entries from eight senior teams ana ljunior teams at Otorohanga on Kio Kio won the senior com petition High School the junior competition. MORRINSVILLE Rugby football opened It*-Je MorrinsviUe on Saturday. Following * the results: Seniors: n i •. United. 7: Terriers. 19. v. Tatauni*; Juniors: Springdale, 9, v. United, 3, f tna. 33, v. Kereone, 6; Terriers, . Tahuna, 3.