N.Z. LEAGUE TOURISTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 166, 16 July 1925, Page 7

N.Z. LEAGUE TOURISTS.

DEFEATED IN SYDNEY. J UNIVERSITIES' TEAM WITT. <By Cable.— Press Association.— Co-pjrtg&t.) 1 SYDNEY, July 15. The Combined Universities team toj day defeated the New Zealand Rugby I League team by 15 points to 13 after a i spirited and spectacular display. There : were 5000 spectators. I The exhibition, of football was infinitely superior, from a scientific- standpoint, to that given in Saturday's contest. The play scintillated with sparkling passins - rushes from whistle to , whistle. Evatt hooked for the local team and j constantly fed his halves. Lane and ; Finn, who repeatedly paralysed the defence of the visitors. O'Eourke played the game of his career. He was easily the outstanding ; player on the ground. i The visitors incurred the wrath of j the spectators on several occasions ' through resenting the rulings of the I referee, Mr. Hurray. Once, in the J second session, CRourke was awarded J a second shot at goal owing to Mouatt i talking at the referee. Both attempts ; failed. Wetherill opened the scoring soon after the commencement of the game, and Mouatt converted. CRourke kicked a penalty goal and then the Universities assumed the offensive until Finn snapj ped up the ball and scored. OTLourke converted. Brown then cut in smartly in Universities' twenty-five and crossed the line. Laing-'s kick failed. At the interval the scores were: — New Zealand S Universities 7 Dufty landed a goal, after resuming, i from off-side play. Then CRourke. i after a dazzling sprint from mid-field, scored a brilliant try which was not j converted. The score was now 10 all. i At this stage the players were exj changing hard knocks and there was no J "beg pardon" on either side. Dr. FlatI tery intercepted the ball at half-way j and sprinted over the line. The attempt lat goal failed. O'Rourke subsequently landed a penalty goal through a New Zealander not playing the ball. Webb then scored a try for New Zea- ! land, but Dufty failed to convert, and j the game ended with the scores: — Universities 15 New Zealand 13 Wetherill, Brown, Henry, Mouatt and Carroll (the last-named of whom replaced Herring) were the beat of the I visitors. The New Zealand team to play j against Newcastle on Saturday will be as follows:—Gregory. Brisbane. Dmtv. : Brown. Saundersl Wetherill, Hall, Heirring, Green, Carroll, Dixon, Thomas and Avery. The team's itinerary for the rest of . the tour is:—July IS. against NewI castle, at Newcastle: July" 23. asainst ! Australia, at Sydney; July 23, asainst 1 New South Wales or Australia, at Newcastle; July 29. against Lismore. at Lisimore; August I. against Queensland, at I Brisbane; August 5, against Ipswich, at ! Ipswich: August 8. against Queensland jor Australia, at Brisbane; August 12, j against Toowoomba, at Toowoomba Ii A. and N.Z. Cable.) i