THE GAME IN FIJI.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 195, 19 August 1930, Page 13

THE GAME IN FIJI.

VISIT OF AUCKLAND STUDEXTS

SUVA. August IC,

The first Paigby football Test match Fiji iy. Auckland University, was played to-day, the local team winning by; 1G points to .3. .

Brace well scored Auckland University's only try a few minutes after the beginning of play, and Jackson converted. ■ . , , • -

After a sensational dash Wright: scored under the posts. Moore failed to convert, and at half-time the score was: Auckland University 5, Fiji 3.'

Moore scored a try in the corner and Wright converted. Right on the call of time Jackson fumbled the ball and Bo'yer gathered it in and scored another try, which Wright Converted. The Fiji forwards held their own and the backs were faster than the visitors. WAIRARAPA'S LOSS. transfer; of fuller. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) . '-.. MASTERTOX, thus day. Wairarapa has sustained another'serious football loss, following the departure of the' All' Black Cooke, by the transfer of Fred .Fuller to. Eastbourne (Wellington) telegraph olfice. A brilliant back and a magnificent goal-kicker Fuller, by his kicking, has proved a deciding factor in many Wairarapa'e representative •games in the past two seasons, notably in the Eanfurly Shield match with Auckland last 'year, and the recent Hawked Bay ga'iiie, when he notched 22 points. To", date this, season Fuller has scored 247 points in representative and club games, a record for'Wairarapa, and probablv for Xew Zealand.

RESULTS AT TE KUITI. (By Telegraph'.—Own. • Correspondent.) TE KUITI. Saturday. ; The Rugby football : competition in tlia Mnuiapotu "sub-union concluded to-day. When' IlunpratiJd defeated FlopiO-' after a "most interesting contest by 11 points to.B. The win was .a" very popular one. riopio having boon the , holders of the- Vukevveka Kliield for the past four seasons.. ' . .Tr . Kniti , Uisli School . defeated Te, iAwamntii Hi.:rb .SqbooJ to-day by 1U points to 3. • and thus asrain became the winners of the coveted Teddy Shield. '. '. .'■■ RATANA CUP. ■ Following is tho Rushy team Selected to represent'. Maiifapiito-Tainiij (holder*') iii :ui inter-tribal match ' rs.iin-t Tauran-ra. a.t Tauranjra. on Tlwrfday, for the U-itaiia Gnp :—Full-biick,,P. 11. AVeb ; three quart.t-v R. Jackson, T. WaSlnce, T. Lee: liverigliths. o: Mate, J. Kara: half, "A. JacV son; forwards. B.Wallace. -1. Ahdersiin. It.' jtanpatu, K. Wetere. 0.-Thompson: Tl:nijtl,i L. Ki'we. J. Kescryes: \V. J.ie.;.-;tn atid K. Bell. . - , ' "