1918 Auckland Rugby League season

The 1918 Auckland Rugby League season was its 10th since its inception in 1909. It was again severely affected by the ongoing war with several hundred players serving overseas and 44 killed who were named in the annual report.[1] North Shore Albions withdrew from the competition early in the season and on other occasions teams played short-handed. There was also a truncated representative program with only a trial match and one full Auckland representative match versus Canterbury, which was played at the Auckland Domain in front of 10,000 spectators.

Ponsonby United, the 1918 first grade champions

The senior grade featured six teams. Ponsonby United won their second consecutive title with an 8-win–1-loss record. Ponsonby then travelled to Christchurch to play Sydenham for the Thacker Shield and they won 11 points to 0. City Rovers won their second Roope Rooster title with a 6–3 win over Maritime following their first win in 1916.

Senior games still regularly attracted strong crowds. The round 4 matches at Victoria Park drew an estimated crowd of 6,000.[2] While 4,000 attended the round 5 matches, 5,000 the round 7 clash between City Rovers and Grafton Athletic at the same venue,[3][4] and 6,000 witnessed the round 9 match between City Rovers and Ponsonby United.

At the season end many one-off matches were played between various teams. One of the more notable ones was a match between the Auckland Star staff and The New Zealand Herald staff. The game was won by the Auckland Star by 8 points to 4.[5] These company type fixtures were to become a regular feature of Auckland Rugby League for decades to come.

News

Epidemic deaths

At the conclusion of the year the Auckland Rugby League took out an advertisement acknowleding the deaths of people associated with the game from the recent influenza epidemic. They included Matthew Winter Maddison of the Ponsonby club, and Montrose (Monty) Stanaway who had represented Auckland in 1915 while with the Otahuhu club before later transferring to City in 1917. And also H. Iles, Arthur Winnall, B Evans, P. Sheenan, and Francis Caulam also being mentioned along with "all others who have lost their loved ones".[6]

Competition news

Club teams by grade participation

Team 1st Grade 2nd Grade 3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade 6th Grade Total
City Rovers 1110115
Ponsonby United 1101205
Otahuhu Rovers 0101114
North Shore Albions 1010114
Richmond Rovers 0001113
Telegraph Messengers 0001113
Grafton Athletic 1001002
Newton Rangers 1001002
Northcote & Birkenhead Ramblers 0010102
Manukau Rovers 0000202
Parnell 0001012
Maritime 1000001
Māngere Rangers 0100001
Thames Old Boys 0010001
Sunnyside 0001001
Big Store 0000101
Total 645911641

Maritime, Mangere, and Big Store football clubs form

The 'Maritime Football Club' applied to join the Auckland Rugby League with the nomination of a senior team. This was accepted by the league.[7] They finished the season with a 1 win, 7 loss record.

The Māngere club applied for affiliation and the registration of 23 players at the Auckland Rugby League meeting on 17 April. This was granted by the league. They were to play in maroon and gold originally as requested but before the season started asked to wear blue instead.

The Big Store Football Club nominated a team to play in the league which was accepted and their colours of blue and white were approved.[8]

New league rooms

At the conclusion of the season the league opened their own league rooms on Swanson Street. The rooms were used for the first time with the Auckland Rugby League executive meeting on 23 October. The rooms consisted of "a large billiard room and League office, and a room for clubs to hold their weekly meetings in". It was stated that players did not formerly meet "their fellow players during the summer time, but with this club now on a sound footing they will be able to meet each other and spend enjoyable evenings which should bring about a better feeling between the different teams".[9]

Death of George Cook in World War 1

On January 14, 1918 George Cook died in France during World War 1. Originally he was a rugby player who played for many seasons for Horowhenua before moving to Wellington where he played representative rugby there too. He switched to rugby league in 1912 playing for Wellington and there gaining selection for New Zealand to play New South Wales. Cook moved to Auckland in 1913 and joined the Newton Rangers. He played in 9 matches for them and scored 33 points making him the second highest scorer. He was selected for Auckland and played in 6 matches scoring 4 tries. In 1914 he joined the Otahuhu Rovers club where he played 9 games and scored 29 points which was the 3rd most in the competition. Cook enlisted in the New Zealand Māori (Pioneer) Battalion in 1917. Cook died on October 12, 1918, from broncho-pneumonia while at the No. 7 Canadian General Hospital in the field in France.[10] He was buried at Étaples Military Cemetery in Étaples, near Boulogne in north-west France.

Representative match

Auckland played a representative match for the first time in a few seasons. They had taken a hiatus during the war years but they played a trial match between and A and B team before a match with Canterbury at the Auckland Domain. The match attracted an enormous crowd of 10,000 and Auckland won easily by 45 points to 9.

First grade championship

The 1st grade championship had been competing for the Myers Cup from 1910 to 1914 but after the beginning of the war the league decided to not award trophies though the grade competitions were still competed for as normal. The season began with 3 preliminary rounds before the competitions began proper on 18 May. Around 5,000 spectators attended the first round matches at Victoria Park and Devonport Domain. North Shore Albions played the preliminary rounds, round 1, and defaulted their next two matches before withdrawing from the competition.

Teams

The competition featured 6 teams.

Round 1

27 April City 27-4 Grafton Victoria Park 1  
3:00 Try: Unknown [11] Pen: Dougie McGregor 2 Referee: Archie Ferguson
27 April Ponsonby 16-6 North Shore Victoria Park 2  
3:00 Try: Artie Rae, Eric McGregor 2, Wren
Con: A Maddison 2
[11] Try: Stone, unknown forward Referee: Tyson
27 April Newton 23-9 Maritime Victoria Park 3  
3:00 Try: Wally Somers, Arthur Iles, George Iles, Ivil 2
Con: Arthur Iles, P Castles 3
[11] Try: Pitman
Pen: Dufty 3
Referee: William Wynyard

Round 2

North Shore was struggling to field a team owing to the impact of the war on their playing numbers. They only managed 11 players for their match with Maritime who were also fielding a weakened forward pack.

4 May Newton 15–8 City Victoria Park 1  
3:00 Try: Pitman, Bill Williams, George Iles
Con: Phil Castles 2
Pen: Phil Castles
[12] Try: Bill Davidson, Jim Rukutai
Con: Bill Davidson
Referee: T Hill
4 May Grafton 12–2 Ponsonby Victoria Park 2  
3:00 Try: Karl Ifwersen, Nicholson, A G Campney
Pen: Karl Ifwersen 2
[13] Try: Artie Rae Referee: A Vause
4 May Maritime 4–2 North Shore Victoria Park 3  
3:00 Pen: Dufty 2 [13] Pen: Parker Referee: John Henry Eddowes

Round 3

North Shore defaulted their match with Grafton. Ponsonby achieved a milestone of sorts becoming the first club to reach 1,000 first grade points during their match with Newton. They began the game with 983 points all time and progressed to 1,004 by the end of the match. It had taken them 72 matches to reach the mark.

11 May City 8–3 Maritime Victoria Park 2  
3:00 Try: C Mitchell, Bill Davidson
Pen: M Stanaway
[14] Try: A Cross
11 May Ponsonby 21–3 Newton Victoria Park 1  
3:00 Try: A Maddison, Dougie McGregor 2, Artie Rae 2
Con: A Maddison
Pen: A Maddison
Drop: J Minogue
[15] Try: Wally Somers Referee: Frank Thompson
11 May Grafton WBD-LBD North Shore Victoria Park 3  
3:00 [15]

First Grade standings

Team Pld W D L F A Pts
Ponsonby United 98011035316
Newton Rangers 97021233714
City Rovers 8503738510
Grafton Athletic 8206941254
Maritime 9108451102
North Shore Albions 30032300

Ponsonby and Maritime both had default wins over North Shore Albions. Newton had a default win over Maritime (R9). These results are included in the standings.

Round 1

18 May Ponsonby 17–9 Grafton Victoria Park  
3:00 Try: Jim Clark, Eric McGregor, Thomas McClymont
Con: A Maddison 2
Pen: A Maddison 2
[16] Try: Tremain
Pen: Karl Ifwersen
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: A Ball
18 May City 15–13 Maritime Victoria Park  
3:00 Try: Bill Davidson, C Mitchell, Doran
Con: Bill Davidson
Pen: Jim Rukutai 2
[17] Try: Hutton
Con: Dufty
Pen: Dufty 3 & 1 mark
Attendance: 5000
Referee: Bill Murray
18 May North Shore 2–30 Newton Devonport Domain  
3:00 Pen: Parker [18] Try: Phil Castles, Jack Keenan, Ronald Lovett, A Thomas, unknown x 4
Con: Len Farrant, unknown x 2
Referee: William Wynyard

Round 2

North Shore lost by default to Maritime. In the City v Grafton match the City player Mitchell was ordered off by referee Vause for disputing a decision. He wrote a letter of apology during the week and the league ordered him to appear on Saturday to receive a “severe citation” [19]

25 May Ponsonby 8–7 Newton Victoria Park  
3:00 Try: William Southernwood, Eric McGregor
Con: A Maddison
[20] Try: Jack Keenan
Con: Bill Williams
Pen: Phil Castle
Referee: Archie Ferguson
25 May City 11–10 Grafton Victoria Park  
3:00 Try: Tom Haddon, (Huatahi or George) Paki, J Hogan
Con: M Stanaway
[21] Try: Dougie McGregor, H Simpson
Con: Karl Ifwersen
Pen: Karl Ifwersen
Referee: A Vause
25 May Maritime WBD-LBD North Shore Victoria Park  
3:00 [22]

Round 3

North Shore once again defaulted and the withdrew from the first grade competition leaving 5 teams.

1 June Newton 18–2 City Victoria Park 1  
3:00 Try: George Iles, Leonard Newdick, W Miller, Jack Keenan
Con: Arthur Isles 3
[23] Pen: Ernie Asher Referee: Frank Thompson
1 June Grafton 28–2 Maritime Victoria Park 2  
3:00 Try: H Simpson 4, Dougie McGregor 2
Con: Karl Ifwersen 3, Dougie McGregor 1
Pen: Karl Ifwersen
[23] Pen: Dufty Referee: T Hill
1 June Ponsonby WBD-LBD North Shore Victoria Park 3  
3:00 [23] Referee: E Dempsey

Round 4

8 June Ponsonby 20–7 City Victoria Park 1  
3:00 Try: William Hanlon, Eric McGregor 2, Arthur Cadman
Con: A Maddison 3
Pen: A Maddison
[24] Try: G Reid
Pen: Jim Rukutai 2
Attendance: 6000
Referee: William Wynyard
8 June Newton 16–0 Maritime Victoria Park 2  
3:00 Try: Wally Somers 2, A Thomas, Arthur Mansill
Con: Arthur Isles
Pen: Bill Williams
[25] Attendance: 6,000
Referee: F Tyson

Round 5

Sheehan was ordered off for Maritime in their match with Ponsonby for striking Matthews.

22 June Newton 13–2 Grafton Victoria Park 1  
3:00 Try: Jack Keenan, George Iles, Arthur Isles
Con: Arthur Isles, Phil Castles
[26] Pen: Karl Ifwersen Attendance: 4,000
Referee: Bill Murray
22 June Ponsonby 21–6 Maritime Victoria Park 2  
3:00 Try: Arthur Matthews 2, Eric McGregor 2, unknown 1
Con: A Maddison 3
[27] Try: George Davidson, Hogg Attendance: 4,000
Referee: A Ball

Round 6

29 June Ponsonby 18–7 Grafton Victoria Park 1  
3:00 Try: Laurie Cadman 2, W Hanlin, Thomas McClymont
Con: A Maddison 3
[28] Try: Tremain
Con: Karl Ifwersen
Pen: Karl Ifwersen
Attendance: 5000
Referee: A Ball
29 June City 11–7 Maritime Victoria Park 2  
3:00 Try: C Mitchell 2, Robert Clark
Con: Jim Rukutai
[29] Try: Kent
Pen: Dufty (and 1 mark)
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Archie Ferguson

Round 7

Remarkably the match between Newton and Ponsonby at the Domain was recorded with footage of the game surviving and being archived on The New Zealand Archive of Film, Television and Sound Ngā Taonga website.[30]

6 July City 25–15 Grafton Victoria Park 1  
3:00 Try: Bill Davidson, Ivan Stewart, Robert Clark 2, Tom Haddon
Con: Bill Davidson 2
Pen: Bill Davidson 2, Jim Rukutai
[31] Try: Karl Ifwersen, Dougie McGregor, Tremain
Con: Karl Ifwersen 3
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: A Vause
13 July Newton 11–10 Ponsonby Auckland Domain  
3:00 Try: George Iles, Jack Keenan, Ronald Lovett
Pen: W Miller
[32] Try: William Southernwood, W Edwards
Con: A Maddison 2
Attendance: 7,000
Referee: Hill

Round 8

20 July City 2–0 Newton Victoria Park 1  
3:00 Pen: Harry Francis [33] Attendance: 4,000
Referee: William Wynyard
20 July Grafton 12–11 Maritime Victoria Park 2  
3:00 Try: Tremaine, Pullen
Con: Karl Ifwersen 2
Pen: Karl Ifwersen
[34] Try: A Cross, Dufty, penalty try
Con: Dufty
Attendance: 4,000
Referee: E Dempsey

Round 9

27 July Ponsonby 2–0 City Victoria Park 1  
3:00 Pen: A Maddison [35] Attendance: 6,000
Referee: A Ferguson
27 July Newton WBD-LBD Maritime Victoria Park 2  
3:00 [35]

Round 10

3 August Ponsonby 7–6 Maritime Victoria Park 1  
3:00 Try: Eric McGregor
Con: A Maddison
Pen: A Maddison (1 mark)
[36] Try: Hogg, George Davidson Referee: Archie Ferguson
3 August Newton 28–11 Grafton Victoria Park  
3:00 Try: Ronald Lovett, F Gregory, A Thomas 2, Jack Keenan 2
Con: Ronald Lovett, Phil Castle 2, Arthur Isles, Jack Keenan
[36] Try: Karl Ifwersen
Con: Karl Ifwersen
Pen: Karl Ifwersen 3
Referee: Wheatley

On 21 September a match was played between the Auckland Rugby League referees and officials of the league. The referees won by 14 points to 4 with it being refereed by Jim Rukutai.[37]

Roope Rooster knockout competition

Round 1

10 August City 15–10 Ponsonby Auckland Domain  
3:00 Try: Robert Clark, Harry Francis, C Mitchell
Con: Ernie Asher
Pen: Ernie Asher 2
[38] Try: Eric McGregor, Artie Rae
Con: W Hanlin
Pen: A Maddison
Attendance: 6,500
Referee: Frank Thompson
17 August Maritime 16–11 Grafton Victoria Park  
3:00 Try: Hogg, George Davidson, Lunn 2
Con: Stallworthy, Dufty
[39] Try: Karl Ifwersen
Con: T Taylor
Pen: Karl Ifwersen 3
Attendance: 3,000
Referee: T Hill

Semi final

24 August Maritime 13–8 Newton Auckland Domain  
3:00 Try: Tom Sheehan, Hogg, Dufty
Con: Stallworthy
Pen: George Davidson
[40] Try: W Miller, Jack Keenan
Pen: Arthur Isles
Attendance: 5,500
Referee: A Ball

Final

31 August City 6–3 Maritime Auckland Domain  
3:00 Try: Maurice Wetherill, Huatahi Paki [41] Try: George Davidson Attendance: 7,000
Referee: William Wynyard

Top try scorers and point scorers

The following point scoring lists include both Senior Championship matches (including preliminary rounds) and the Roope Rooster competition. For the 5th time in 6 seasons Karl Ifwersen topped the point scoring lists with 66 points. This gave him 287 points from 6 seasons. While Eric McGregor (brother of Kiwi Dougie McGregor) of Ponsonby United topped the try scoring list with 10. Newton Rangers had 4 tries and 2 conversions unattributed while Ponsonby had 1 try unattributed which make the point lists for those teams slightly incomplete.

Thacker Shield

Ponsonby United travelled south to Christchurch to play a match with Sydenham for the Thacker Shield. They were victorious and brought the shield to Auckland.

31 August Sydenham 0–11 Ponsonby Sydenham Park, Christchurch  
3:00 [42] Try: Artie Rae, Bill Walsh, Arthur Matthews
Pen: A Maddison

Lower grade clubs

The lower grades featured teams in the 2nd grade (5), 3rd grade (5), 4th grade (9), 5th grade (11), and 6th grade (4).[43]

A team named "Big Store" was entered in the 5th grade competition. They were essentially a company team representing George Court & Sons. Their motto at the time was "Big Store" in reference to its range of goods in their Karangahape Road store. During the season they asked the Auckland Rugby League if they could be affiliated to the Newton Rangers club. The league delayed a decision as they had earlier asked to be affiliated to the City Rovers club before changing their mind. The affiliation with Newton was later affirmed. The team was however thrown out of the competition after an incident in a match in early August. They were suspended until the end of the following (1919 season), and their captain, Crawley was suspended for 3 seasons.

Second grade

Ōtāhuhu Rovers won the championship. While fixtures were reported in the newspapers each week there were only 2 scores reported in the entire season along with 1 other result (City defeating Māngere Rangers in round 1). This renders the standings below to be extremely inaccurate. Grafton withdrew after round 1 and have not been included in the standings as it is unlikely they fielded a side, while Ponsonby withdrew after round 7.

Team Pld W D L B F A Pts
Otahuhu Rovers 820012804
City Rovers 910100142
Māngere Rangers 800230140
Ponsonby United 50001000

Third grade

North Shore won the championship. There were only 11 scores reported from 26 scheduled matches.

Team Pld W D L B F A Pts
North Shore Albions 115012613210
Manukau 10301254196
Thames Old Boys 10301221466
Northcote & Birkenhead Ramblers 11005225520
City Rovers 10003210220

Fourth grade

Telegraph Messengers won the championship, sealing it on September 7 with a 15-2 win over Newton. Parnell, Manukau, and Otahuhu all withdrew from the competition after round 9. Ponsonby withdrew 1 round later. There were 23 scores reported and 23 unreported.

Team Pld W D L B F A Pts
Telegraph Messengers 1280121023616
Richmond Rovers 135011342510
Newton Rangers 12413154519
Grafton Athletic 1220211324
Sunnyside 12103130492
Ponsonby United 8103017262
Otahuhu Rovers 8103019492
Manukau 701013121
Parnell 8005119410

Fifth grade

Otahuhu won the championship after defeating City in the final on September 14. There were many results not reported however the Otahuhu standings and for and against record are correct as they are displayed on their championship winning photograph in their present day club rooms. Telegraph Messengers, Manukau B, and Ponsonby B all withdrew after 11 rounds, while Manukau A and Northcote & Birkenhead Ramblers withdrew a week later. Big Store was removed from the competition by the ARL due to a disciplinary issue in an August match. They were suspended until the end of 1919 but failed to ever take part in Auckland Rugby League again. 23 scores were reported, with 34 scores not reported.

Team Pld W D L B F A Pts
Otahuhu Rovers 14130102441026
City Rovers 137021941914
Richmond Rovers 1150231045010
Ponsonby United A 12402142388
Northcote & Birkenhead Ramblers 11102148302
North Shore Albions 13104152392
Manukau A 11101113192
Telegraph Messengers 10104111822
Manukau B 10004191220
Big Store 900310490
Ponsonby United B 1000300770

Sixth grade

City won the championship. There were 23 results reported and 23 not reported.

Team Pld W D L B F A Pts
City Rovers 1511010145922
Richmond Rovers 14415039469
Otahuhu Rovers 11402029228
Parnell 15114120463
North Shore Albions 13104112352
Telegraph Messengers 141060191062

Exhibition matches

Richmond and the Telegraph Messengers 4th grade teams travelled to Thames to play an exhibition match on 12 October. Telegraph Messengers had been winners of the championship with Richmond the runners up.

Date Score Score Venue
12 Oct [44] Telegraph Messengers12Richmond10Thames

Representative fixtures

On 7 September a trial match was held between two teams picked by the selectors at Victoria Park in order to select the Auckland representative team. The A team was Minogue, Bill Walsh, Thomas McClymont, Jim Clark (Ponsonby), Dougie McGregor, Karl Ifwersen, Bailey, Ernie Herring (Grafton), George Iles (Newton), George Davidson (Maritime), Jim Rukutai, Tom Haddon, Francis (City, while the B Team was George Paki, Ivan Stewart (City), Eric McGregor, A Maddison, Cadman (Ponsonby), A Thomas, Jack Keenan, Bill Williams (Newton), Pullen, H Simpson (Grafton), Bert Avery, A Cross, Sheehan (Maritime), with W Hanlin (Ponsonby), Stallworthy (Maritime), Clarke (City), and Jack Keenan (Newton) named in the reserves. The following weekend Auckland played Canterbury at the Auckland Domain and were victorious by 45 points to 9.

Trial match

7 September A Team 36–15 B Team Victoria Park 1  
3:00 Try: George Davidson 2, Clarke, Karl Ifwersen, Dougie McGregor, unknown x 7 points
Con: George Davidson 2, Dougie McGregor 2, Phil Castle
Pen: Karl Ifwersen, Phil Castles
[45] Try: Mitchell, A Thomas, Bert Avery
Con: Jack Keenan
Pen: Jack Keenan
Referee: Bill Murray

Auckland v Canterbury

The match saw 10,000 spectators attend and took in 300 pounds in gate takings.

14 September Auckland 45–9 Canterbury Auckland Domain  
3:00 Try: George Davidson 5, Karl Ifwersen 2, Tom Haddon 2, George Iles, Thomas McClymont
Con: Karl Ifwersen 4, Phil Castle, Ernie Bailey
[46] Try: Young
Pen: Mitchell, Smythe 2 marks
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: A Ball

Auckland representative matches played and scorers

NoNameClub TeamPlayTriesConPenPoints
1George DavidsonMaritime150015
2Karl IfwersenGrafton124014
3Tom HaddonCity12006
4George IlesNewton11003
4Thomas McClymontPonsonby11003
6Phil CastleNewton10102
6Ernie BaileyGrafton*10102
8George PakiCity10000
8Dougie McGregorGrafton10000
8Bill WalshPonsonby10000
8Jim RukutaiCity10000
8Bill WilliamsNewton10000
8Ernie HerringGrafton10000

Ernie Bailey had begun the season with North Shore but after they withdrew their senior team from the competition he transferred to the Grafton Athletic team.

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