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FOOTBALL GOSSIP
By 'Nineteenth'
LOVELOCK SHIELD
Saturday's scores: Hills Central 11-8, d. River Murray S-15.
Hills 20-21. d. Great Southern 10-9.
After courageously battling for
three quarters against a vastly
superior team. Great Southern
were completely overpowered in
the final term in the Lovelock
Shield match against Hills Asso
ciation at Balhannah last Satur
day.
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good, but the oval left much to
be desired. Large patches of
the playing area were wet and
boggy, and although it appeared
to slow Great Southern players
to a 'walk' it had no apparent
effect on the fleet-footed, high
marking Hills combination.
With first use of a slight
breeze, Great Southern began
like a really good side. Jackson
and Don Blows were proving far
too experienced for Great South
ern rucks, but Rovers Wheaton
and Moss were gathering a good
share of the opposition hit-outs.
After a few attack's had petered
out, Moss posted the first score
of the match — a point — and soon
afterwards sent a nice drop-punt
through the middle. Hills went
in tor a single, but the bustling,
hard-hitting tactics of the visi
tors had the home side unsettled.
Field tore around the flank and
angled a nice goal, to put the
Southerners 2 goals in front.
From the resultant centre bounce
Hills' big ruckman Jackson sent
a terrific punch into the arms of
his centre half-forward — a feat
that he and Don Blows repeated
many times throughout the
match. Lanky full-forward, Bob
Blows, pulled down a skyscraper
and proceeded to collect Hills'
first goal. Freed in front of goal,
Francis kicked truly for Great
Southern, and Anesbury added
another shortly afterwards.
into attack and after a series of
3 points, Bob Blows snapped a
nice major. The Scoreboard at
the first change saw Great Sou
thern leading, 4-1 to 2-4.
Still doing well, the visitors
got another goal when Wheaton
brought up both flags from a free.
Defending under pressure. Hills'
full-back pushed the ball through
for a point, to get his team out
of a tight corner. Clapping on
the pace, Hills began to look
more like the excellent side they
undoubtedly are, and in a terrific
burst of football increased their
score by four goals two behinds.
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superb, their rucks were in full
control, and their teamwork was
making the game look easy.
Field got a single for Great Sou
thern, which brought an immedi
ate reply from the locals when
rover Downs gladly accepted an
obvious throw in full view of the
umpire and shot truly. Fighting
back desperately, the visitors got
a goal from a scrimmage and
Anesbury collected another in
good style soon afterwards.
Swarming forward again. Hills
went to 9-11 at the half-way
mark, to lead by 2-9.
Great Southern scored 2-4 to
1-2 by about mid-way through
the third quarter in what proved
to be a dying effort, because
from that stage onwards it was
a 'matter and pupil' affair with
Hills in complete control. They
led 12-15 to 9-6 at three-quarter
time and raced right away to
win by 20-21 to 10-9.
Great Southern earned top
marks for their game effort;
they simply had no answer to a
vastly superior team. John Mc
Inerney won a trophy as our best
player and others worthy of
mention were Wheaton, Moss,
Rumbelow, Kleinig, Moyle and
Penny.
In the earlier match Hills
Central won a much closer game
from River Murray by 11-8 to
8-15, and I consider Great Sou
thern, on the day, would have
had an excellent chance of de
feating either of those teams.
Likewise, however, few would
concede either Hills Central or
River Murray much hope of
matching the terrific football
turned on by the Hills Associa
tion.
MONDAY'S MATCHES
Hill. R«Um Lowloek Skidd
By defeating Hills Central,
13-19 to 5-6, at Murray Bridge
on Monday, Hills Association
proved once again that they are
worthy holders of the coveted
Lovelock Shield. Hills Central
battled gamely to the end, but
at no stage appeared likely to
cause an upset.
A sore and somewhat sorry
Great Southern side displayed
none of the fight that character
ised their Saturday's effort and
were soundly thrashed by River
Murray to the tune of 17-29 to
5-4. To say the least, it was a
most disappointing exhibition by
our players, many of whom ap
peared more than slightly disin
terested. It is to be hoped that
our selectors have good me
mories when selecting future re
presentative side. Neville Penny
was adjudged as Great South
ern's best player and won a
trophy donated by the River
Murray League.
Second rounds of club_matclics
begin to-morrow, when unbeaten
Encounter Bay go to Port Elliot
and, on form revealed, should
win comfortably. Victors at
home should defeat Goolwa. but
the form of the Blue-and-Whites
so far has not been reassuring,
and they can expect plenty of
hurry-up from the Riverside
club.
Congratulations are extended
to Victor Harbour Primary
School boys, Charles Kleinig,
Chris Molony and Denis Topley,
on being selected to represent
Southern District in the Annual
Schoolboys' Country Football
Carnival to be held in Adelaide
next week.
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