The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842-1954), Monday 22 May 1939, page 17

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Football results; comments on play.I

RUGBY UNION.I

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East and Randwick

Beaten.

DRUMMOYNE RECOVERS WELL.

Tastern Subuibs and Randwick,

both weakened by the absence of in-

terstate representatives, and by m

luries ti» pinners, weie beaten in the

sixth round of the Rugby Union pre-

miership competition on Satuiday

Eabtein Suburbs wrnl down lo

Western Suburbs at Concoid Oval, bj

29 points to 17, and Randwick was

heal cn by Parramatta at Coogee Oval,

li, 11 to 10.

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Ta teni Subuibs still has a lead of onei

piint Northan Subuibs and Western Sub

mb have joined Randwick in s"cond plice

Diummoyne won well against St Geoige

aftei that team had led in the first hnlf The

SI G oi?e full-bick M Cliffoid was in

juied and retired eaih In the second half

Noithein Suburbs and Goidon had comfoil

nble wins over University and Man)}

respectlVLlj

Competition points Eastern Subuibs")

Randwick Northern Subuibs and Western

Subuibs 8 Goidon 7 Drummoyne and Par-

ramatta each 5 Manly and Univeisitv each

4 St Gcoige 2

Results at a GlanerFIRSl G HA DR.

Western Suburbs 2"! (Collin' 1 R Smallwood

Beers Cummins and Uok<.n tries Baines converted

lour) beat Pastern Suburb- 17 (Rebcrger two

and Scaley tries See convened on» and licked two

penalty goals) at Concord Oval

Parramatta 22 (Jones three and Lewis tries

Andrews and Martin converted one each and

Andrews kicked two penalty toils) beat Rondwtrk

10 (Hardiman and Shirley tries Gray Spence con

Tertcd hothl at Coogee Oval

Drummoyne 2R (Glllcland two Vincent two

Blacklock Murray and Bullivant tries Blvckloct

oonverted two »nd kicked a penally goal) beat

et Geoige 6 (Moon a to Clifford a penalty

goal) at Drummoyne Oval

Northern Suburbs 20 (Jackson three and Murphy

tries Tindale converted one and kicked a penalty

goal aroves a penalty goal) beat University 11

(Fuller and Oxenham tries Connor converted one

»nd kicked « penalty goal) »t North Sydney Oval

Gordon '3 (Harris Weldon Angus and O Brien

trie« O Brien converted one »nd kicked three

penalty goals) beat Manly C (Merrett and Kidd

tries) «t Manly Oval

RESUME GRADE.

Western Suburbs 15 (Staunton Lake »nd Bis

?aker tries Reid converted two and Trehearne one)

beat Eastern Suburbs 12 (Lisle and Reberger tries

Lvnch two penalty goals)

Randwick 24 (Thorogood two Whelan Spence

«nd Maher tries Whelan converted three and kicked

a. penalty goal) beat Parramatta 9 (Ochs a try

Bygrave two penalty goals)

Drummoyne 27 (Rowe Cartledge Gllleland Fox

Sharples Tory and Rees tries Hotchkiss converted

two and Roderick one) beat St George 6 (Todd

.nd Kentall tries)

Northern Subuibs IB (Beamish ONIshe and

Bvmn tries Kerslake »nd Kelly penalty goals) beat

university 6 (Dennlngs two penalty goals)

Manly 6 (Limn a try Sutton a penalty goal)

beet Goidon 5 (Diamond a try and a goal)

Manly 6 a

beet Goidon 5 (Diamond a try and a goal)

WEST'S BRIGHT FORMWestern Suburbs beat the competition leader

Eastern Suburbs by 29 points to 17 after leading

by 16 to 6 at half time Eastern Subuibs was

able to field only about halt of the regular side

The following seven playeis who a week befoie

lontrlbuted to the first defeat of Randwick wira

unavailable Smith Sefton Stone tin Queensland

with the State team! Rae B Walsh Williams

Biadley (injured! Fetherstonhaugh who was se

lected as substitute for Sefton was prevented by

»n Injury from playing Ellsmore who filled the

breach and the captain cerutti retried Injuicd

and were replaced by plavers who had appeared

In the reserve grade matrh Cerutti was exam

ined bv a doctor who expressed the opinion that a

rib was fractured Fxccpt for Ihe absence of

Kully a member of the NSW team Western Sub-

urbs was at full strength

In the absence of the Tastern "Suburbs hooker

«lone Western Suburbs won the ball from most

of the scrums also obtained possession from the

malorlly of line outs We ts back division was

given repeated opportunities to attack Fast s

hack' who included only two who were selected

for the preceding match-T Walsh winger and

Blyth thalf-bark-were unequal to the task of

coping with the opposition Three of West s four

first h-lt trie«, were scored by Collins the five

eighth Ile scored his first try after Wo"nn

fielded the ball near his own goal line Wognn

reced ow-iy nnd nt hnlf way in passed to McLntigh

lin That centre went farther ahead and when

he -nassfd lo Collin' the defence was pierced Col

lins s third trv came from another spertaculnr

movement When See (East) had a penalty kirk

st gonl th» bull was fielded at the goal-line by the

Western Suburbs full bnck Cummins Cummins

pas-cd to Barnes who when apnroachlnr half wov

transferiert to McLaughlin Again MrLonirhlln

»frer n skllf li burst sent the ball to Collins

Mclaughlin also plaved the most prominent pill

In the movement that resullcd In Collins s other

try Although the defene» was beaten when Col

lins tool his passes he did well lo be In position

op 'he three occasions foi the final pass

Western Suburbs s backs ulsved well McLau^h

lin we« outstanding In attnek end defence -alrenflh

w« add»rt bv the return lo the «rrum bise of Ri

m»lll who save Collins n swift and armrite se

.v'ce nnd \ Brier! hi" nlny lo advantage His

»hern run from the blind sMe of a seium gai e

ft trv to R Smallwood -the first «core of the

thatch The best of West s forwards were Abou I

S'incent and 7 SmeMwnod Deerr from St

Tosenh s College who filled Ihe loci' nosltlon made

en impressive initfnl eppenrance In first erade T

Walsh (winger) gave a much belter dlsnlav than

Fasts other backs He showed sneed and résolu

lion on the rare occasions that the bell reached

him Bee Scots College and All Schools full

hack la«t season nleyed well under difficult eondi

linns Fas! s h« t forwards were Turnbull Lane

»nd Reber"er TJn to his retirement Cerutti rucked

with a will P»berger who renresonled Chris

flan Brothers College Waverley last sermon -was

another player new to first grade Selected to

dennMse for Brpdlev at b ertVnwev his nace en-

abled him to score two of Fasts thiee tries

RANDWICK S WEAK TACKLING

With seven nlavers in Brlshane and Towers

Bilk »nd Bedford also unavailable it was not

surprising that those who filled the ten sans In

Randwick s team at Coogee Oval were nnahle to

hold Parramatta That combination would he

missing with only Shirley and Gray Spence of the

regular Randwlrk backs plaving was understan

dable but in the first term the home team failed

In tackling » quality that should he uosscssed

hy Junior and senior alike Time ntter time

Parramatta players went through a bunch of

opponents none of whom li led low tackles This

?was not so apparent in the second term On

occasions some of the substitutes played well

lnrilvlduallv In attack

Parramatta a backs were particularly safe and

their play wa» marked with good Judgment Hardly

»n erior was made in catching the ball or gather

Inr it from the turf though the centre had been

.well watered and was somewhat treacherous Mar

tin at full-back was particularly clean in taking

rhe. ball and his kicking was always aimed at

the open spaces Andrews and HamDShlre weie

only slightly behind him and Jones on the wing

«mowed pace All tackled well The forwards

?were better in line outs and generally sunerlor

In scrums though the dlffeience there was not

no pronounced Lewis was the pick of a good

In scrums

no pronounced Lewis was the pick of a good

«el

Biduna substitut» for SI one «s Randwick s

hall" showed grit and sent the ball out smartly

lolhurst and Howlett were the main cxcentlons

In the non-tackling forwards and TIardlman

played a hard gome Referee Sheldon allowed

play to swing along uninterruptedly a' much as

possible

CLIFFORD WAS MISSED

The loss In the second holf of the full back

M Clifford completely dlsorganl ed St Geoige s

game against Drummoyne Clifford v,a« taken

off when fluid developed In his left knee He

had kicked and tackled brilliantly His 41 yard

penalty goal a few minutes before half time was

» feature of the match

When Clifford went off Drummoyne led 11 8

hut was by no means master of the situation

Six of the points bnd been scored from loose

play However St George s play lost all eombl

nation and Drummoyne scored freely Benson

?who had played brilliantly in the three quarter

line renlaced Clifford hut was himself replnred

bv McNaughton after Drummoyne hid twice

charged through Mason was one of the tew

St George men to tackle low B Claike the

rantaln used a headlock tackle throughout

In the later stages of play Kerrulsh the st

George half bael made brave attempts to hold

the rhnrce« of Drummoyne forwards He stoopedtwo dribbling rushes which almost certalnlv would

have produced tries when he thiew himself on to

the hallGlllelnnd was Drummoyne s best nlaver He

scored two tries-one when he passed to Murrnv

and cut »round for an ln-oass and another when

he ran 50 yards alone Bm"rf anticipation rave

S' ncent the Drummoyne half-bad two tries

Blacklock r former Australian Rules plover was

another Drummoyne men who shone He side

sleooed four men to score a try a few minutes

before f ill time

NORTH S GOOD FORWARDS

The superiority of the Northern Rub irbs for

«vTds against University at North Sydney Ovni

mied the «v lol their teams cleai cut win

The bael s recriv ed more than a ¡air share of

the ho.ll from sciums and line outs and nil tries

«cored bv them originated from scrums down in

Tlnlvcr«ltv s terrllorv Anderson hnlf-back and

Tindale five cl»hth olavea yell together nnd

Anderson ahlv flll-d the brenrh made by Gibbons s

absence lack on scored three »tries and ployedsoundly Ihroutho

it When he gained his first

(r/ assisted bv Coinfoith he took the ball from

list Insl le half wnv to the oosty Corntorth dis

nooolnlcd as a ineer and handled errntically

b t tlnlveisilv fill*,! lo take full advantage

of env error« hy l<orlh

On Ihe whole UnHersltj s handling and tack

lil g vere poor B "H Tioyers vos an exception

hut nfier he bed made an opening the failure of a

forward lo I old n no s when close to North s

line robbed Tinivcrsltv of a (tv Travers s long

p nt old Indi Idual buisls saved his side from a

"ire de'e t but Bpnrt from P Hardcastle nnd

Wansey who in the latter stages kept their side

on the altar! lie was unsupported As a team

Northern Suburbs olayed the belter university r

attnrl consisting moie of Indlvldunl bursts thn-i

good teamwork Both Callen and Nicholls plaved

well and were ikii' up with the ball Meigel

who lcplaced Burges» as full back did not appear

to be al ease

Unlvcr ity was frequently caught in possession

bv the opposing forwards Hutchinson and Till

1er were prominent In the University pack

MANLY S POOR SHOWING

Seldom has r less exciting match been witnessed

»t Manly Oval »here Gordon beat Manly and

the fault lay entirely In the home team Neither

»ide was at full stiensth hut this could not

he advanced as a good reoson for Manlv s pool

display The Manlv (oraords larked their usual

fire and so many penalties wore given away in

thr opening half that the teeni was fortunate

that only six points were scored agilnst it In

Ihls scssfon The bael s could not be idled unon

lo handle surely Bnd gain ground On the other

hand Goidon against poor opposition played well

The forwards in particular Infused life into their

play and the backo played soundly if not spec-

tacularly The weakness of Manlv s tackling should

ï,Te"!'eïlli':d ,ln \ *" margin than thal re

F'jsenled hy four Irles In twoO Brien had «nother field day-«coring a try

a conversion a penalty goal from a difficult angleand two penalties from the half wav line Goldon s best plavers were BrlpR« and McLure (backs)nnd Weldon and Angus (forwards) Biddulph Merrett Wall and Aidny (backs! and L LIvIn"sto_,eTruman and Kidd (forwards) weie best for

Manlj

weie for

Manlj

OTHER MATCHESNFWCJSTLF-First crade competition Mere

wether Carlton 0 (Dixon try Hills penalty nonl)v Maitland

fi

(Brown two penalty Roals) AlbionIB (Averst, Nun Flllott GolTett tries Bradfordconveited two) v Noith Newcastle 3 (Chamberspenalti goal) C Y M S 2!) (HtRUlns Hoban JDean Moffatt Carroll tries Welbe converted 4Weibe 2 penaltj (rials) v Waratah Mayfield 12IBnlewskl 4 penalty goals) Wanderers 1 (HosUns Conwav tries Arnold r penallv goal v

Nnbbvs 9 iGillet 2 tries Hornby penalty soilBRISBANE-Svdncy Grammar School (Vander

field a tri) beat Brisbane Grammar School bjthree points to nil