Soccer Knockouts

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 999, 16 June 1930, Page 6

Soccer Knockouts

The principal knock-out at Blandford Park, between Y.M.C.A. and Manurewa. was a very mediocre display, which failed to raise much enthusiasm, and the second round of the knock-outs should provide far more stirring struggles. The Young Men ' \ were without their ( star attraction, Murray Kay, but the ! ever useful Clan- , achan was harnessed up again, 1 and played a really I useful game, his I opening goal being quite a bright ef- . fort. Manurewa failed to reproduce I its dashing knock-

son, and Y.M. held the upper hand throughout. The 'Rewa defence was very snaky in the first half-hour, when Clanachan, Humphreys (2), and W haley all helped themselves to good goals, ana Whaley showed out to better advantage as deputy for Kay than he has in the inside berth. With a four-goal lead the Young Men took a breather, while Manurewa tested Hilliard at times. Lees, who battled hard in a rugged stylo at centre-forward, forced his way past the defence and scored from well out, the teams turning round with the score 4—l in favour of .M. 3?la> slackened off in the second spell, and was very listless until Whaley brought off a Kay-like coup on the left, and finished with a neat goal from the wing. Lees made a good opening at the other end for Donaldson to finish off in good style, while Humphreys completed his hat trick by heading in a good corner kick by ’Whaley. The concluding stages consisted mostly of stoppages for free kicks against Chalmers, who suddenly developed a penchant for lying offside, and ultimately the exasperated referee had to stop the game to tell the offender about it. Then the call of time relieved the monotony of the game, with Manurewa outed by the substantial margin of. four goals in favour of Y.M. Whaley, Humphreys, and Jay shone out in the Y.M. attacks, while tho defence had a light afternoon’s task. Lees and Donaldson were the best of a rather ragged front line for ’Rewa, and both Corbett and Ross battled hard to repel the elusive Young Men, but without much success. SHORE SETTLES ONEHUNGA The early knock-out provided a much brighter game when tshore made its first appearance at Blandford Park since its relegation to B grade, and put paid to Onehunga’s account after a hard struggle, with many lively rallies. Shore was weakened by the absence of its captain, Dan Jones, while Onehunga had got Peterson back from Ponsonby, and put up a stubborn resistance to the sleeping draught. In fact, tho Manukau men had the best of the first spen, after scoring a lucky opening goai when a Shore defender headed backward into his own net. A nippy run by Hutter, with a strong limsiiing centre, which Bradshaw neatly netted, evened matters for Shore, but Moon goi away irom Cvit*bourne, and sent acioss to Griffiths to put Onehunga one ahead at the interval. SHORE'S GOOD RECOVERY Shore showed greatly improved form after the spell, and soon equalised when Hutter tore past the defence and. sent to the goal-mouth, where \V alters headed past Zuiii in good style. Shore kept the pressure up till the end. A hot attack gave Marnie a chance of a long drive which passed Zuili unsighted, and keeping the pressure up Wilson came through to the centre to drive a terrific leftlooter hard to the net and settle Onehunga s chance of survival. Without Jones in front of him Gerrard had a lively handlul in Whirnster and Scandle, but stuck grimly to Ins job, and sent his forwards away on some profitable reprisals. Marnie from South Africa, at centre-half ap--bG ?. UII short ot ' a gallop or two but is obviously a skilful player with plenty of height and weight He tackled strongly, fed with discretion and his goal was a hefty shot from long range. The Shore forwards gave a good display in the second spell, and Mutter was most conspicuous with his strong dashes down the line. Zuili put up a sterling defence in goal for the losers, and Deter son and Kutherlora were strong in keeping the Shore in ciieck - while Whimsterand Lrimths were most conspicuous in an unimpressive firing line. RANGERS SURPRISE CELTIC r, . evon »°rt there was another and , c ‘“ sh between Celtic chib lound the senior “ U J* wt-11 held by the all-golds. Aularentiy the wintry bye on the wwinesday night had taken some of the stint' out of the Celtic side as a with t twi e loUn , d the tean *s all square " ltli t» o soals each when time e 1n n if e uA, CeIUC mad f no niistake when was ordered, and quickly fight* 1 BufTf 31 in th e tailing n o ht. hint darkness saved Hangers us hid exr e h- e 'a clo “ ed down before time had expired, ana his decision caused a but t annm m °r t ° f heated "comment v * y a !' epluy wiu be neces--8 lucky escape was l " brilliance in WHEN SCOT MEETS SCOT 1 histle s form has been verv in and-out this year, and with Hon Ac' wUh Mr, h by its amaigamaUon ev w Ljnn, the unbeaten U gradknni^ Cr t hopeful of administering tb--' w-?. t ° ut ,. blow to their at Walker Dark. Bon Accord led off in lively Style, but Thistle was on i " game, and held the advantage of morl p i PyUaUVe power in fast exchanges McLeay scoring twice and Hick add ’ round" ° t er bef °- the tu^d

Yi; i” ifea-a and act on the defensive but Bon Accord failed to set one nasi ierrnrd, and just before time McLeav completed his hat trick bTsSnr hard ind d t.?f 1S ' S » liislo l>. to drive ■ance T ,i U eto U,e net from lons V T , tle running out ease winnets by four goals to nil.

PONSONBY SETTLES TAMAKI The weather was fine and the ground i-nL C n aUCIVe to fa,s t football on the V- f r Domain on Saturday. Ponsonbv kicked off with the sun behind it. Both

FALCON CUP TIES Corinthians K.O. Trams SOCCER on Saturday was devoted to Falcon Cup knockouts. and the surprise of the day was the elimination of Tramways by the Corinthians. Rangers ereated a surprise by finishing even with Celtic at Devonport. and failing light prevented extra time being completed when Celtic led by 4—2. Shore, front the B division, outed Ouehunga 4—2. and Y.M. won a straggling game from ilanurewa 6—2. Glen limes beat Belmont I—o,1 —0, while Ponsonby, Thistle and Technical Old Boys also survive for the second round.

teams played solid. last football throughout the first ha!f % Tamaki showing Ponsonby points in the ::ard tackling line. But if Tamaki waaT the team with the most dash and spirit' then the Ponsonby men showed that extra combination and experience which enabled them ultimately to triumph.

The Tamaki backs played a fine game. All through the match their tremendous clearances saved many a nasty situation. The ha It backs also played well, and fed the forwards as often as they could, so that time and again the Tamaki forwards dashed up the field with the" ball, but their combination was not good enough at any time to get them past the finished displays of McCosh and his brother back. The Pony forwards combined well, Innes being often in the limelight, while Balloch proved a hard worker They had most of the game during the latter part of the second spell, when Tamaki s sting had worn away, but even so. they managed to score only one goal daring that half owing to the exceptionally good custodianship of Harrison, Tamaki’s goalie. He gave really a wonderful display for a lower grade player. Excepting the last portion tht game was fast and well-fought, and Tamaki tried hard to make matter* mor© even, its solid tackling certainly made Ponsonby metaphorically sit up. BELMONT V. GLEN INNIS Soon after the start, the teams sc-t----tled down to a hard, stern gam*-. Th* teams were evenly matched, and neither was allowed to have too rouca of the play for over-long. The pace was fast, and was kept up till the very end. when Belmont was vainly struggling for a victory which went to it* opponents, through its having slightly the advantage against a heavier side. TRAMS V. CORINTHIANS .Soccer lias provided a number of surprises so far this year, but the surprise of the season was Tramways* feat of the newly-promoted Corinthian* on .Saturday. Even exchanges right from the start promised a touch-and-go affair, and long passing methods in both directions provided an interesting exhibition of the code for at least the first half-hour. WOODS IN FORM Woods was a thorn in Tramways' side the whole game through. The smart youngster indulged in some nippy runs up the wing, and lus speed was a constant source of danger iu Trams* goal. His speed far outclassed that of McElligott and Watson in tho opposing defence, and it was from three such bursts that his crosses wero converted by Ansteed. Jor.e* and Hart to give Corinthians a substantial lead of three corls Trams was a team disorganised. After opening well its play hecarnt very loos© and the forwards were decidedly weak in front of goa‘ It may liave been that, or else the Corinthian defence was unusually active, and it is a fact that Taylo: and Lvons were putting in some solid defence work. Simpson was out of ’’he ranks for a large fraction of the first spell. In colliding with Aherne he dis turbed an old injury to his :nkV and had to be carried off. DESERVED TO WIN There is no doubt that Corinthians deserved its win. The individual players forced the play with a will and there were periods of very eager tackling with Trams nothing loath to reply it was unfortunate that Corinthians had two penalties awarded against it which Spencer made no mistake with but full time saw the namesakes of the famous amateurs still a deserving goal ahead.