Round 6
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| The games were played in "boisterous" weather with a small crowd of just under 1,000 attending the two games at Victoria Park. The point scoring phenomenon [[Karl Ifwersen]] was missing for Grafton and possibly as a result Newton pulled off a massive upset when they defeated Grafton by 8 points to 3. Newton had conceded 73 points and scored just 11 over their previous two matches. [[Jim Clark (rugby league)|Jim Clark]] made his first appearance of the season for Ponsonby. | The games were played in "boisterous" weather with a small crowd of just under 1,000 attending the two games at Victoria Park. The point scoring phenomenon [[Karl Ifwersen]] was missing for Grafton and possibly as a result Newton pulled off a massive upset when they defeated Grafton by 8 points to 3. Newton had conceded 73 points and scored just 11 over their previous two matches. [[Jim Clark (rugby league)|Jim Clark]] made his first appearance of the season for Ponsonby. Ben (Stanley Barrett Russell) Rutledge returned to the field for Grafton after having been part of a group which travelled around the Pacific gathering up enemy subjects for internment. He was a police officer by trade and went to Europe as part of the war effort in 1917.<ref>{{cite news |
| | title =The League Game | |
| | page =10 | |
| | work=Observer, Volume XXXVI, Issue 43 | |
| | date = 1916-07-01 | |
| | url =https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TO19160701.2.20.3 | |
| | accessdate = 2024-05-02}}</ref> | |
| {{rugbybox collapsible | {{rugbybox collapsible |
| | date = 24 June | | date = 24 June |
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