OUTCLASSED IN LAST QUARTER
Glenelg Beats North At Prospect
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| 1st
| 2nd
| 3rd
| Final
| Pts
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| North Adelaide
| 3.3
| 6.3
| 8.9
| 9.10
| 64
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| Glenelg
| 2.4
| 5.6
| 6.11
| 12.15
| 87
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Crowd: 4,521
FINISHING like an inspired team to play all over North Adelaide in every part of the field, Glenelg won at Prospect on Saturday with
nearly four goals to spare after having trailed by a few points from the start. Last year Glenelg's trouble was that the team could not
last the full four quarters, but on Saturday it was a fresh, well-trained team that kicked 6 goals 5 behinds in the last quarter to its tired opponent's 1.1.
The players themselves considered it a triumph for their new captain-coach, Marcus Boyall, the former Collingwood half-back, and
in their elation they chaired him from the centre of the oval to the grandstand.
Boyall disappointed those who went to Prospect to see a champion footballer who was never beaten, and there were at least four
Glenelg men who played more spectacular games, but Boyall did much useful work. His kicking told of his year's absence from the
game, but patches of brilliance, especially when Glenelg rallied for a death-blow, have given supporters great confidence in him.
Only in the last quarter did Glenelg play cohesive football, but North Adelaide never played, it seemed, with any idea of teamwork,
apart from the fact that the players kicked in the direction of Farmer. North's form was disappointing, and with a general ineffectiveness in the forward lines, it was left to Farmer to kick 9 goals 6 behinds of the side's 9 goals 10 behinds. Those other four behinds were kicked in a row in the third quarter, and apart from that period, no North Adelaide forward apart from Farmer could get the ball within kicking distance.
In view of North's general form, Farmer's effort was a phenomenal one, and even at three-quarter time, with North Adelaide leading 8 goals 9 behinds to 6.11, it seemed likely that Farmer's lone hand would beat all the battling of Glenelg.
The standard of football in the first three quarters was poor, and when Power, Johnston, Burt, Boyall, Cooper and Lush pressed home
well-executed attacks in Glenelg's finishing burst, North Adelaide was left standing, and the North Adelaide forwards had only two
shots for goal (1 goal 1 behind to Farmer) compared with 10 by the opposition.
Neither team seemed to be winning at definite points in the field up to three-quarter time. Both sides were feeling their way. and
poor field kicking and fumbling spoilt the early stages of the match for the spectators.
When Farmer had kicked three quick goals in the second quarter, taking his tally to 6.3, compared with 3.4 by Glenelg, he seemed set
for many goals. Toms, the former Sturt player, started off well against him, but Farmer had begun to do what he liked. After those three goals, Boyall switched Brock, who was playing dashingly in the rucks, to goalkeeper, and that ended Farmer's goal-getting
for the quarter. Indeed, he scored only three goals after that change.
Glenelg took the lead by two points in the first few minutes of the last quarter when Waite and Burt kicked good goals, and although for half the quarter there was exciting football, it became a matter of by how much Glenelg would win.
Scores:—
GLENELG. 12 goals 15 behinds (87 points).
NORTH ADELAIDE. 9 goals 10 behinds (64 points).
Scorers of goals and behinds were:—
Glenelg — Burt 5 goals 3 behinds; Lush 4.1; Waite 2.2; Sharpe 1.2; Phillis. 0.5; Johnston and Cooper, one behind.
North Adelaide — Farmer 9.6; Hoskins 0.2: Pearce and Pash one behind.
Burt's Fine Roving
Burt gave a fine exhibition of roving for Glenelg, and put into the Glenelg attack, which was badly at sea early in the game, a fire
which the North backmen could not counter. He finished the day at the head of his side's goalkickers. Brock was another who kept the
Glenelg attack functioning from the start, and the value of his checking of Farmer, vigorously and fairly done, cannot be over-estimated. His ruckwork gave Glenelg as early superiority, which Johnston and Boyall carried on to the end of the match. Johnston showed towards the end of the game that he has lost none of his energy, and although his phenomenal high marking was missing, perhaps because of the type of game played, he was a most valuable player. Pike fulfilled the promise he showed at half-back last year, and came through time after time with excellent clearing dashes from the back-line. Corbett, when he was not rucking, gave excellent assistance to Brock. Keane took over centre half-back when Boyall went rucking, and held it safely. Cooper had a big job at centre half-forward in his first match, but he accounted for his former Victorian opponent, Gregory. Two former North players, Phillis and Power played good games.
North Adelaide's good players are hard to find. Farmer was outstanding, but few of the others came into prominence. Telfer helped Farmer considerably by well-directed passes from a half-forward flank. Pash played attractively at centre, but his kicking marred his work. Pearce, a follower from Paskeville, played a solid game, and Hoskins, at centre half-forward, played well, particularly against Boyall early in the match. J. Hogan and Casey were in the picture at half back.
Hunt went off in the third quarter with a bruised thigh muscle, and was replaced by Ahrendt.
