CHAMPIONSHIP AT STAKE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 447, 31 August 1928, Page 11

CHAMPIONSHIP AT STAKE

Shore Leaguers Win Honours If They Defeat Ellerslie

PONIES TRAVEL TO HIKURANGI

SHORE LEAGUERS will meet Ellerslie in the feature match at Carlaw Park to-morrow. At present Shore is leading in the senior championship competition from Richmond by one point and a victory for the seasiders to-morrow will make them the 1928 competition champions.

It can only be expected that Shore, after its fine record throughout the season, will clinch a victory in tomorrow’s game which is, undoubtedly, against one of the weakest teams in the competition. However, it must be taken into consideration that Ellerslie j has been showing much better foot-

ball recently, and after its fine showing- against Richmond last Saturday, should be quite capable of making tomorrow’s big clash fast and interesting. On No. 2 area City is fixed to meet Richmond, while as a curtain-raiser to the feature match on the main area, Marist will play Newton. The Ponsonby senior thirteen, and also its first juniors, have the bye to-morrow, and both teams left for Hikurangi this afternoon to meet two of the northern teams. TO-MORROW’S TEAMS LIST Senior Grade Richmond.—Hanlon, Swift, Taylor, Long, Wheaton, Prentice, Jenkinson, Firth, Davis, Coote, Stewart, Colebrooke, Jones, Dixon, Heath. City.—Barchard, Williams. Perry, Lawrence, Wetherill, Amos, Reynolds, Crouch, Hadley (2), Horne, McLoughlin, Townsend, Hamilton, Pascoe, Weavis, Hines. Senior B Grade Parnell. —Perry, Patton, Kerr, Davies, Little, Anderson, Hosking, Kelly, Molloy (2), Ritchie, Sloman, Clark, Brockliss, Wilson, Smith, Keane. Second Grade Richmond.—Bryan, Williamson, Ryan, Coleman, Stack, Parvin, Smith, Barrett, Hobbs, Wheeler, Hemmingson, Haysost, Burrell, Braithwaite, Jones, Davis. Third Grade Richmond.—Payne, Jones, Gold water, Potter, Mclnnarney, Senior, Verrall, McKinnon, Biddick (2), Clarke, Patterson, Deason Neale, Norgrove, Carey. Mount Albert. —Bagnall, Strong, Wattam, Munro, McDonald, Wilson (2), Hirst, Costello, Whaley, Norris, Jamieson (2), Snow, Twining, Day, Kerwan. Third Intermediate Grade Richmond.—Sutton, Mincham, Dunn (2), Davis (2), Agney, Powell, Lindsay, Thomas, Rickards, Turner, Wolfe, Stehr. Fourth Grade Richmond.—Patterson, McDonald, Fuller, Williams, Southey, Hayes, Hill, Verrall, McKinnon, Grubb, Farrell. Morman, Coulain, Mackay, Arnott, Stallworthy. Fifth Grade Richmond. —Valentine, Mclvor, Brown, Tomkins, Miller, Turton, Agnew, Hatcher, Dunn, McCulloch, Head, Preston, Campbell, Rainbow, Latham, McCarthy, Palmer, McCowatt. Mount Albert.—Harris, Ferguson. Wilkinson, Fisher, Murray, Thom, Chiswell, Peacocke, Millburn, Foster, Eider, Reirl, Noone, Darlow, Sampson, Adams, Miller. Sixth Grade Richmond A.—Travers, Mclnnarey, Costeillo, Keenan, Eaton, Fraei, Akerstan, Sadler, Conway, Simmons, Callinan, Noble, Pole, Mclvor, Sprag, Riley, Buckton. Richmond B.—Hanna (2), Davis, Holehouse. Lupton, Bickerton, Rainbow, Pay, Keane, Darbyshire, Millich, Crooke, Cameron, Baird, Verrall, Taylor Kavanagh, Sigby. Richmond Schoolboys.—Kennedy, Atkinson, Owens (2), Joy, Graham, Williamson, Kinnard, Nicholis, Verrall, Edmonds, Davis (2), Patterson, Webster, Thompson Ward. A-fter being bored by Gene Tunney, Tom Heeney is afraid that he will be bored in New Zealand. Not a happy augur-y for Gisborne’s reception! * * * In the first four minutes of the Rugby test at Port Elizabeth, last Saturday week, P. J. Nel scored for South Africa and Osier converted. A-Nel of a bad start for New Zealand.