OUT OF THE BAG
One of the high spots in the Ponsonby-Grammar game at Eden Park on Saturday was the try which Jamieson, a promoted Ponsonby junior, paved the way for. In the teeth of a hot rush by the Grammar forwards, the Ponsonby fullback failed to get his boot properly under the bail, and it went straight up in the air. Jamieson pounced on it when it landed and dashing through the opposition, made straight down-the paddock. R. Hook, Berridge and Cammick immediately ranged alongside, and before the Grammar backs could rally to the support ol their fullback, a pretty passing bout had taken the ball almost the length of the field for a try. It was one of those unexpected and disconcerting movements that Ponsonby often produce out of the bag and from all manner of “impossible” positions—what in the “good old days” would be called bad tactics. The backing-up proclivities of the Ponsonby backs and their readiness to turn any chance opportunity to account from any position has won them many games.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 341, 30 April 1928, Page 6
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175OUT OF THE BAG Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 341, 30 April 1928, Page 6
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