BRILLIANT PLAY IN POLO GAME

Taupo Times, Volume 20, Issue 3, 14 January 1971, Page 10

BRILLIANT PLAY IN POLO GAME

Conditions at Centennial Park, Taupo, for the provincial polo championships between Northern and Central Districts on Sunday, were excellent. In fact the weather and ground were in direct contrast to that experienced during the Rickit Cup match between Morrinsville and Auckland at Morrinsville on Saturday. Rain forced the abandonment of the game, won 1-nil by Morrinsville. And at Kihikihi the holder of the Savile Cup, Cambridge,

beat Kihikihi 8-3. Rain made the going easy * at Taupiri, where the home 1 team beat Waimai 5-2. The Northern - Central game at Taupo, in which a j number of international players appeared, was a high scoring encounter. The good crowd was treated to some thrilling, certainly skilful, polo and 1 6 goals were 1 noted in the senior encounter I and seven in the junior, won | 4-3 by Central Districts. J. MacGinlay, just back from play in Washington D.C., 1 scored eight times for Northern seniors, J. F. Watson get- I ting two and G. Broughton I one. For Central M. Small and R. W. MacKenzie found the posts twice and J. McKelvie once. The action was fast and furious and the picture demonstrates a typical moment with Northern on attack.