LAST TEST MATCH.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 12, 15 January 1934, Page 12

LAST TEST MATCH.

KANGAROOS DOWN AGAIN. ENGLAND WINS BY FIVE. RESULTS IN EVERY CODE. LONDON, January 14. In the fourth and final Test match, which was the Inst game in tlio Australian Rugby League touring team's itinerary, England on Saturday heat the visitors by 19 points to 14, after leading at half-time by 12 points to 4. The teams were:— Australia.—McMillan, Ridley, Brown, C. rearce. Gardner, Hey, Thicknesse, Stelir, Polwell, Denny, S. Pearce. Gibbs and Prigg. England.—Sullivan. Hudson, Harris, B rough, Smith. Jenkins. Little, Silcock, Watson, Worrall, Saddington, Troup, Dal ton. There was an attendance of 20,000. The weather was line. The game, which was played at the Gateshead Soccer ground, did not reach its best until the closing stages, when, with a great effort, England made victory secure. The Australians were improving, however, as the game came to an end. The Australian team was handicapped owing to. McMilan, its captain, being temporarily injured, while later England sufferred through Watson being carried off the field. , The referee had occasion to warn two members of the Australian team during the match. Results cf other football games in the United Kingdom on Saturday :— ASSOCIATION CUP. Third Round.—Plymouth 1, v. Huddersfield 1; Crystal Palace 1, v. Aldersliot 0; Manchester United 1. v. Portsmouth 1 ; Worthington 4. v. Gateshead 1; • Southampton 1. v. Northampton 1 ; Chelsea 1, v. West Bromwich Albion 1 ; Bristol City 1, v. Derby 1 ; Rotlierham 0. v. Sheffield Wednesday 3 ; Charlton 2, v. Port Vale 0 ; Notts Forest 4, v. Queen's Park Rangers 0; Hull 1, v. Brentford 0; Stoke 3. v. Bradford 0; Reading 1, v. Oldham 2; Birmingham 2, v. Sheffield United 1 ; Brighton 3. v. Swindon 1 ; Chesterfield 2, v. Aston Villa 2; Leeds 0, v. Preston 1 ; Grimsby 1, v. Clapton Orient 0; Tramnere 3, v. Southend 0; Bolton 3, v. Halifax 1; Sunderland 1, v. Middlesbrough 1 ; Milwall 3, v. Accrington 0 ; Wolverhampton 1, v. Newcastle 0; Cheltenham 1, v. Blackpool 3 : Manchester City 3, v. Blackburn 1 ; Liverpool 1, v. Fulham 1 ; Luton 0, v. Woolwich Arsenal 1; Swansea 1. v. Notts County 0; Leicester 3, v. Lincoln 0; Tottenham 3, v. Everton 0; West llatn 3, v. Bradford City 2 ; Burnley 0, v. Bury 0. ENGLISH SOCCER LEAGUE. Third Divis'on.—Southern section : Watford 1, v. Norwich City 2. Northern section: Barnsley 1, v. Carlisle United 0; Darlington 2, v. Walsall 1: Mansfield Town 1, v. Stockport County 1 : Rochdale 0. v. Doncaster Rovers 2 : Southport 4, v. New Brighton 0; Wrexham 5, v. Crewe Alexandra 1. SCOTTISH SOCCER LEAGUE. First Division.—Aberdeen 3, v. Third Lanark 0 ; Clyde 2, v. Cowdenbeath 3; Falkirk 3, v. Patrick Thistle 0 : Hamilton Academicals 1, v. Ayr United 1 ; Heart of Midlothian 2, v. Celtic 1; Kilmarnock 2, v. Hibernians 0; Queen's Park 0, v. St. Mirren 0: Queen of the South 3. v. Dundee 1 : Rangers 4. r. Motherwell 2; St. Johnstone 4, v. Alrdrieonians 0. Second Division.—Albion Rovers 3, v. Dunfermline Athletic 2; Dumbarton 1, v. Leith Athletic 2; Dundee United O, v. Brechin City 1 ; Forfar Athletic 4. v. Alloa 1 ; Montrose 2, v. King's Park 4; Morton 3, v. East Fife 1 : Raith Rovers 0. v. Arbroath 1 ; St. Bernard's 1, v. East Stirling 1 ; Stenhousemuir 5, v. Edinburgh City 2. RUGBY LEAGUE. Barrow 2, v. London Highfleld 11 ; Rroughton Rangers 3. v. Widnes 3: Dewsbury IS, v. Bradford Northern 10 ; Featherstone Rovers 5, v. Batley 7 : Halifax 8, v. Salford 16; Iluddersfield 27. v. Castleford 3 ; Hull Kingston Rovers 10, v. Keigliley 11 ; Leeds 32, v. Bramley 9 ; Oldham 17, v. Leigh S; St. Helens 20, v. Rochdale Hornets 13; Swinton 20, v. Hunslet 12; Warrington 1(3. v. Hull S: Wigau 21, v. St. Helens Recreation 5; York 11, v. Wakefield Trinity 3. RUGBY UNION. Notts, Lincolnshire and Derby 9, v. Leicestershire 5; Bath 9, v. Northampton 5 ; Birkenhead Park C, v. Guy's Hospital (i; Bristol 11, v. The Army 3; Devonport Services G, v. Neath 11 ; Gloucester 9, v. Newport 0; Harlequins 13, v. Blackheatli 8; Leicester 12, v. Rugby 0: Llanelly 12, v. Sale 6: London Scottish 8, v. Rosslyn Park 8; Old Merchant Taylors 15. v. St. Bartholomew's Hospital 5; United Services G, v. Richmond 8 ; Abertillery 0, v. Crosskeys 0; Cardiff 0, v. Swansea 3: Pont.vpool 9, v. Aberavon 5; Glasgow University 5, v. Glasgow Academicals G; Watsonians 5, v. Howick 10. International trial : Scotland 12, v. Rest 3. Of its 36 matches on tour, the Australian team won 20 and lost 10. The Kangaroos scored 709 points and 274 were registered against them. The Australians lost all the four Test matches played, the scores being o—4, 5—7, 9—16, 14—19. In an' exhibition match at Paris, against wah was practically an English Test thirteen, Australia won by 63 points to 13.