CLARKE CUP RUGBY

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21193, 16 August 1940, Page 9

CLARKE CUP RUGBY

SECOND TO LAST GAMES CITY MEETS TECHNICAL 0.8. PLAY AT RAGLAN AND TAUPIRI Tomorrow the second to last games in the Clarke Cup Rugby competition will be played. The final is expected to be held on August 31 at Hamilton, the date on which Waikato meets Thames Valley at Morrinsville in the union’s final representative fixture of the present season. On August 24 Hamilton will play Morrinsville at Hamilton in the Peace Cup elimination game, the winner to meet Matamata. Only one Clarke Cup match will be played in Hamilton tomorrow when City will meet Technical Old Boys. Frankton will play Raglan at Raglan and Old Boys will play Taupiri at Taupiri. The curtain-raiser at Rugby Park will be a junior championship match between Old Boys and Technical Old Boys. Entries for inter-house teams competing in the Morris Cup competition will close with the secretary of the Hamilton Rugby Union, Mr T. W. Thompson, Ward Street, on Tuesday, August 27. Draw For Tomorrow The draw for all games in the Hamilton competitions tomorrow, together with the referee appointments, is as follows: Clarke Cup:—City v. Technical Old Boys, No. 1 Rugby Park, 2.45 p.m. (Mr A. Paterson); Frankton v. Raglan, at Raglan (Mr K. Atkins); Old Boys v. Taupiri, at Taupiri. Junior Championship: Railway v. Rototupa, No. 2 Rugby Park, 1.30 p.m. (Mr T. R. Frazer); United v. City, Whatawhata, 2 p.m. (Mr A. A. Griffiths); Old Boys v. Technical Old Boys, No. 1 Rugby Park, 1.30 p.m. (Mr H. R. Bishop); Frankton has defaulted to Ruakura. Third Grade:—Old Boys v. Technical Old Boys, No. 2 Rugby Park, 2.45 p.m. (Mr J. Rendle); Marist v. City, No. 3 Rugby Park, 2.45 p.m. (Mr D. S. B. Heather). Fourth Grade:—Marist v. Old Boys, No. 2 Hinemoa Park, 1.30 p.m. (Mr R. Gillies); Frankton v. Technical Old Boys, No. 3 Rugby Park, 1.30 p.m. (Mr R. Bullock); City, a bye. TOMORROW’S TEAMS Old Boys Juniors:—Ashton, Roskruge, Winter, Yates, Fowler (2), Andrews, Cresswell, Gillespie, Seely, Scobie, Crawford, Marshall, Holloway, Raskin, Johnson, Samson, Nissen, Mack. Frankton Seniors. Elliott, Bowler, Dick, Newcombe, Belcher, Lines, Mueller, Simpkins (2), Satherley, Shaddock, Butler, Wilkins, Reece, Everest (2). Aherne, Griffiths, Nepi, Knox, Cas - sels, Williams, Grey, Alexander. Bus for Raglan leaves Frankton Post Office at 1 p.m. Juniors.—Default to Ruakura. Technical Old Boys McGrail, Simpson, Bolton, Nesbit, Bary, Sykes, Houghton, S. Houghton, E. R. Lye, Snell, Warren, Kemp, Flannagan, Hills, Patterson, Morgan, O’Rourke.