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SAINTS DOWN TO
MAGPIES
Exciting
Final
By H. A. DE LACY
he League Final between Collingwood and St. Kilda today
resulted in a win for Collingwood, who thus meet
Melbourne in the Grand Final next Saturday.
The attendance was 66,848. and the takings £4291 1/9.
t was an exciting game, full of color, in which the faster-moving
Saints were chained to pack work by the dogging tactics of
Collingwood. In such a game there was a considerable amount
of mauling, but the brilliant exchanges by the St. Kilda men
made it a colorful display and relieved it of any drabness.
KILDA proved a great attraction i
in their first appearance in a League ,
final for several years. Queues had been
formed outside the Rates wrll before 10
o'clock, and by 11. when the gates were
opened, the people stretched in long
lines well back towards the Jolimont
station.
Early promise of a CO.OOC crowd had
been maintained by 2.30. The outer
was well filled. The seating accommo-
dation in the grandstand reserve was
fully taxed. The day was perfect for
football. The turf, perhaps a trifle!
hard, lent Itself to fast exchanges,
Whatever wind there was blew!
lightly across the ground and was a;
refreshing influence lather than a tor-1
ment.
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St. Kilda occupied the room under;
the new concrete stand. The Magpies
werc in the Melbourne room.
j
Nearly 200 Wires
Both teams received many
telegrams
conveying
good
wishes.
Saints received nearly 200
i
from
well-nishers
all
over
Australia,
and
it
was
ap-
parent that a victory to them
|
would have been very welcome
j
to many people.
The Seasiaers were very confident
that they would race the legs off the-
Magpies.
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The switch of umpires was the early |
topic of conversation.
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Among the telegrams received by St. i
Kilda was one from the club preslent,
Mr
Dave
McNamara.
Mc-|
Namara
who
is a trainer, had two,
. horses
running at Mentone today.
"
°" e , lh '°" 8h^ageinent and,
then dashed to the M.C.G.. reaching
., U,e Stan ol the Umd warier.
Cheerio From W.A.
Among Interstate telegrams was one
from the football public of the Goldfi„)ri
o-^u-n ,„„„
,
„.„.„„
,
J League '
Las t ,
se a " a
s t - Kilda played a match against the
Goldfields.
Bob Qulnn, c&pt&.in~co8cb
at Port
Adeiaide, and Bert Sawley's
a
rover with Norwood;
;B®Mct 1 ™^^^"s^piay^s^
X
who
remembered
remembered
the
the
Sa,n7s
Martm RSti a
Saints.
foSnlr tTniver-
Dr. " r „ Martin Maruni Ratz, a former ftmer Univerlro\er,
rover, who •.Jo follows the fortune of
f l; ""da closely
today- w^
Umjer-
confined to bed also sent best wishes
onlJ
,, .
...
'J
"Uing
(jlal }outh should have some part mi
he
«B' of
well-wishing.
Tallarook
tate School sent their telegram to
t. Kilda.
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The race through which St.. Hilda
entered the field was criss-crossed wiUi
the red, white and black—the club's!
colors. Last week the Collingwood race!
wat conspicuously undecorated, but to-;
day black and white was draped across!
the entrance.
Collingwood made an eleventh hour 1
ubstitution.
Ross, who has been out'
itli injurv. but who was thought to.
have
sufficiently
recovered
to
be
elected, was at'tlie last moment re- :
laced
by Balfour.
Proude
became
19th man.
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