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Saints and South
Can They Both Win?
Lost Saturday's games make it clear
that the League teams have levelled
up more quickly than was apparent
from the pi ay on the opening day,
St. Kilda, by their sensational defeat
of Carlton, and South Melbourne, b»
their great display agaiwt Fity.ro*
have come swiftly into the pictur*
and will have to he treated seriously
by all opposing sides this season. It
is not going loo far to suggest ihal
either team on last Saturday's form
has distinctly first-four possibilities.
Their engagements next Saturday
will therefore create greater interest
than would otherwise have been the
case, and as both are playing on their
own grounds the centre of football
gravity will, for the day at any rate,
be transferred to the south of the
Varra. St. Kilda are to meet CoI-
Iingwood, and the issue is very ohen.
The Saints can win if their play is
up to last week's standard at Carlton:
but CoIIingwood have profited
by their defeat at the hands of Essendon
and are going to be an improved
side from now onwards.
However, the seasiders are in great
fettle, and provided no alterations are
made in the side, 1 will look to them
to extend the Magpies to the utmost,
if not win.
South Melbourne will be at home to
Essendon, and 1n the light of form at
Fitzroy I suggest thai the 'Dons will
want every ounce of their pace and
skill to win. The speed of the
Southerners staggered the Fitzroyiies,
but Essendon have it to spare. JJotli
are skilful In the air, and if the game
is opened out it should be a fine
spectacle, with Igssendon just clever
enough forward to land the points.
Richmond, after the byn on Saturday,
will go Into the fray against
Carlton like Tigers refreshed, and In
the present state of the Blue team
the odds are that ihey will win,
Fitzroy go to Geelong, and should
come' home with the Pivotonians'
scalp at their belt. Bui football is
a game of surprises, and one never
knows when the Geelong men are
going to take the bit jn their teeth
and leave the opposition standing.
Donations of £15/15/ have been
voted by the League to the memorial
to the late Henry Young, the
veteran Geelong player and captain,
and 25 guineas to Fred M'Ginis, the
former Melbourne champion, who is
gradually going blind in Tasmania.
The three W's.—Wilson, Webb and
Westcott—were among Collingwood's
best, but not far behind them was
Baker, the little rover, who made almost
superhuman efforts to pull lhe
game out of the
fire
in
the last
quarter.
The Magpie centre line was
patchy.
Charlie Milburn excelled in
the open stretches, and
with
more
practice
in
League compuny
will
make a class footballer.
Bui mosl of
all, CoIIingwood require a better organised
forward line, and their
defence
still needs stiffening.
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