Marist to Meet Devonport
Roope Rooster Final Provides Fitting End to Keen Competition League Season Retains Brilliance A BLAZING hot sun and a brick-hard turf gave a midsummer touch to the football programme at Carlaw Park on Saturday. It was a trying day for football, but in speed, vigour and deadly tackling, few club games this season have surpassed the Roope Rooster final between Marist and Ponsonby. Marist’s narrow victory now gives it the right to play Devonport for the champion of champions trophy.
Saturday’s Rooster final was a hard, close tussio all the way, watched by a crowd of about six thousand spectators, a gratifying result, considering the '•ounter-attractions of racing at Ellerslie and an afternoon which suggested sea beaches and open countryside before football.
The value of the Roope Rooster competition was strikingly exemplified by the two teams contesting the final. Both Marists and Ponsonby got so far behind in the early stages of the club season that their steady and consistent improvemnt came too late to give them a chance in the championship final. The “sudden death” competition. which carries with it a handsome trophy in the novel form of a silver rooster, provided them with an opportunity of redeeming themselves, and the splendid game which signalised the final of the competition was a tribute to both teams.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 479, 8 October 1928, Page 6
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221Marist to Meet Devonport Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 479, 8 October 1928, Page 6
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