GREAT BRITAIN DEFEATS QUEENSLAND.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20024, 4 September 1930, Page 8

GREAT BRITAIN DEFEATS QUEENSLAND.

GAME FULL OF EXCITEMENT. (miD MUSSB ASSOCIATION —BY JLZCTBIC vkusaßATH —corraioHT.) (Received September 3rd, 10.25 p.m.) BRISBANE, September 3. The Rugby Union football match was won by Great Britain from Queensland by ten points, 26 to 16. The teams were: —

Great Britain—Bonner, Aarvold, Jennings, Knowles, Murray, T. E. JonesDa vies, Poole, H. 0. 0. J ones, Rew, Dunne, Welch, Martindale, Ivor Jones, Hodgson, and Wilkinson. Queensland —J. Stoggall, J. Carter, G. McGhie, S. Brown, F. Feelenhauter, T Lawton, G. Bennett, E. Thompson, E. Bonis, E. Mott, N. White, F. Whyatt, J. Clark, F. Reville, and P. Banks. It was a great game, full of excitement and thrills, and up to the closing stages it appeared that either sido might win. Then, however, the British players dominated the game, and launched attack after attack on the home goal-line, finishing with two fine tries after movements which baffled the Queenslanders. The crowd, which numbered about five thousand, were kept at a high pitch of excitement from the beginning to the end. The visitors played a fine sporting game, throwing the ball about with delightful abandon. It was the freedom of tho movements which defeated the Queenslanders. Tho latter were a fine fighting side, and have a reputation for doggedness, but to-day they were at a big disadvantage in weight, and the clever, quick movements of tho visitors ofteu found them disorganised.

Fast Play. Play was fast from tho beginning, and it was not surprising when the visitors broke through the strong defence for the first try, but when Queensland gained the lead with a try and a goal, both sides put farther efforts into the play, and the crowd was continually on its feet cheering the brilliant bursts of play, first by one side then the other. When half-time came Great Britain had the advantage in points, the scores being: Great Britain .. .. 13 Queensland .. .. 10 Those scores just about indicated the merits of the teams. Early in the second session the home side levelled tho scores, but from that point tho British were on top, and although the Queenslanders made several bursts, one of which resulted in a try, the home supporters could not feel confident while the Dark Blues' threo-quarters were sweeping' down on them in wave after wave.

Brilliant Passing. The try scored by Knowles early in tho game was a masterpiece. All . the back division and some of tho forwards handled in a brilliant passing movement, and when the defence had been drawn to the wing, the pass flashed infield to Knowles, who capped it with a fine dash across the line. If the Queensland Supporters still had hopes .when the scores were: Great Britain .. .. 21. Queensland : ..16 they were dashed when the final score came with Wilkinson, who had crossed in after Hodgson and-Ivor Jones had don 6 thdir work. The British players asserted their superiority from that stage, and the Queenslanders could only tackle desperately to keep the scores down. So well did the visitors combine that it was difficult to single out individuals for special mention. Jones-Davies was in everything,, and his work was more successful because of the (assistance. given by Knowles and Aarvold. - < Bonner >at fullback was safe, and in the forwards Hodgson, Wilkinson, and Ivor Jones were best. Those who showed to best advantage for Queensland were! Lawton, Brown, Steggall, Feelenhauter in tho backs, ancT Reville and Clark in the forwards. The final scores were:—

Great Britain .. .. 26 Queensland .. •• 16 OUTPACED. N.S.W. RUGBY TEAM./ BRITAIN'S SUCCESS. (RlOtt 0U» OWH COBBHSPOHDKHT.) SYDNEY, August 28. Judging by tho display last Sat-urday,-when the British Rugby team opened , its Australian programme, it is a good thing for the deputation of. football in' New South Wales that the All Blacks are not visiting Australia this year. Many Rugby enthusiasts wore ibf the opinion that tho State had built up a powerful combination that was almost invincible. Now bring out your : New Zealanders. was the attitude that had won many supporters. What a shattering blow these ultra-optimists received on the Cricket Ground last Saturday, when 25,000 saw the dashing. British team masters in every department! If Britain was so' overwhelminglv superior, what would New Zealand do to the same side? , . , ■ There has been something of a Union revival in Australia. The League game has lost thousands of friends, and the visit of the last New Zealand League team did not . help matters in the least. Rather did it hinder the League. Rugby had a great opportunity if the State team could'have defeated the British team. The good old Union game would have bounded into popular favour,, and the League would liave been set a-wonder-ing. Even now all may not be lost, for on Saturday the visitors will meet an ; All-Australian team—a. vastly different proposition to that encountered last Saturday First and foremost there will be Tom Lawton, the Queenslander, who is .easily the hest Union exponent on this side of tlie Tasman. LaWton is the man who led Australia to success against the All Blacks. He will fill the Australians with confidence. • Lawton will certainlv be ,a, foeman worthy of the steel of'-that marvel, Spong.' When critics in New Zealand noted in-Australia for their-eonaerVa-tism when these" has. been, any cause, to, eulogise, a visjting player unstintingly spoke of Spong as being the greatest five-eighths ever seen there, Australians were prepared to see n man of exceptional, ability. After Spong s brilliant . display on Saturday, it was easyt to why even New Zealand; placed him on a pedestal; Snone 'was the mainspring of 4 the rout of 1 New South Wales, even if it was a fact that the rout was confined to the concluding stages in the game. In this respect at least the British team ■ lived up to the form it so often displayed in New ; Zealand —that final; eff««tive dash.

The New South Wales, forwards were no match for the hie men from England. Tt was almost pitful to see how futile Carlton was on the wing.

Carlton ii the champion sprinter of Australia, and can break lOsec for 100 yards at almost any time, but that does nob make him a successful footballer. Far from it. Perhaps he was stage, struck, but whatever it was his efforts were ludicrous. He was by no means the only man who could not stand up against the visiting giants. Anyway, after seeing the British team in action, Australians have a greater respect than ever for New Zealanders as footballers. N.S.W. TEAM SELECTED. (UmTKD PBKSS A.MOCM.TIOW—B * ELICTBIO TOMQBAPH—COPTBIOHX.) (Received September 3rd, 7.50 p.m.) SYDNEY, September 3. The following team will represent New, South Wales against the British Rugby team next Wednesday:—Ross, Crossman, Towers, Egan, White, King, Malcolm, Breckenridge, Telford, Palfreyman, Storey, Finlay, Woods, O'Connor, and Blair.

WELLINGTON V. CANTERBURY. Wellington, who won tho Ranfurly Shield from Southland at Invercargill yesterday, will appear at Lancaster Park on Saturday against Canterbury in what should provide the finest football seen here for years. The northern side put up a great performance in registering such a fine win against Southland, who possessed a very strong all round side. Wellington's back team, including such famous figures as Cooke and Nicholls, are capable of playing Rugby of the highest class. They have also very promising backs in Ball, Page, and Foley. Their forwards must be a great pack to hold the Southlanders as they did. Their best-known packmen are McLean, Coulston, Jessup, and Reid. The Canterbury team have been in strict trianing, and should blbo play brilliant football. The inclusion of Lilburne and Oliver should make a great difference to tho Canterbury side. The forwards are sound and in the best of condition.