CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 483, 12 October 1928, Page 7

CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS

Shore Leaguers to Meet Marist

TO-MORROWS BIG MATCH

IX one of the biggest and most important inter-club matches X of the season, the Marist Leaguers, winners of the Roope Rooster competition will meet Devonport, the competition champions, at Carlaw Park to-morrow to decide the champion of champions team. The winning team will hold the Stormont Shield until next season.

The clash will no doubt create much more than usual Interest. Martst, although raakin~ a poor showing in the ear’ str . of the season, gradually rose towards the end to quite great heights, registering victory over some of the leading teams. Last week Ponsonhy, which had proved so superior to Newton the J rovioits Saturday, went down to the Tykes, who are favoured with a har.l-working lot in the forward

division, and a fast rearguard featuri- ~ the old combination, Brisbane and Kirwan, who are playing good football. Of late, Marist have been playing fairly regularly, and in this respect

they have one advantage over Shore 1 which, after being put out of the Roope Booster in the wmi-final stage by Mar Ist, have not had a -ime. Shore’s side to-mo,row, however, is about the! same team which clinched the senior competition honours earlier in the season. Len Scott and O’Leary are both very capable wings, while, with a tair lino of rearguard men on the inside, they sh» uld see sufficient of the ball to make a good showing. It is likely that it will take Shore’s two wing-threequarters to win the day for their side. Followihg are the teams: DEVONPORT -Simons. L. Scott, A. Scott, Beattie, O’Leary (2), Seagar, Preston. Webb, i Casey, St. George, Dixon, Rubv, Rule, I Hunt, Clark. M A R IST Gregory. Hansen, Batchelor. Kirwin,*Brady, Hassen, Stormont. Campbell, O’Brien, Noble, Moislev, i Johnson. MOUNT ALBERT (Schoolboys’ Match) Homan, Jamieson, Hutchinson, *Darlow, Sampson, Prinns, Stuart, Dawson, Underwood, Brady, Sadgrove, Moore, Gill, 1 McDonald, Stewart. Halliday.