ALL BLACKS WIN AGAIN

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22465, 28 July 1938, Page 11

ALL BLACKS WIN AGAIN

Newcastle Easily Beaten SPEED AND ACCURACY OF SHORT PASSES (UKTTED PEESS ASSOCIATION —COPTEIGHT.) (Received July 27, 11.30 p.m.) NEWCASTLE, July 27. Only four members of the team that convincingly beat Australia in the first Rugby test last Saturday played for the All Blacks against Newcastle at the sports ground this afternoon. They were Mitchell, the brilliant centre three-quarter and captain, and the three forwards, George, Milliken. and Bowman. New Zealand won by 39 points to 16, after leading by 21 points to 5 at half-time. New Zealand always had something in hand and won' easily, in spite of plucky tackling by Newcastle and fair success in spoiling tactics. The teams were: — New Zealand —Wesney; Phillips, Mitchell, Wright; Hooper, Griffiths; Tindill; Jackson, Lambourn, GeoFge Wynyard, Milliken, Bowman, Williams, Carson. Newcastle —F. Ball; J. Dean, Fleming, J. Moore. J. Brown; W. ■Dixon; J. Rutherford; H. Norrie, E. Howarth, K. Shortndge, R. Hamilton, W. Harvey, W. Dean, W. Steere, S. Goodwin. New Zealand started at a great pace Wesney kicking a goal in the first minute, and 10 points were up in 10 minutes, with play m Newcastle’s half for four-fifths .of the time. „. lf Griffiths and Hooper were out-: standing for New Zealand, and Wright scored four tries. Griffiths led most of the attacks, but a feature of the visitors’ play was the speed and accuracy of their short passes, which were pretty to watch. Scorers for New Zealand were. Wright (four tries), Hooper (two), Carson, and Milliken. Griffiths converted four tries and Wesney kicked a penalty goal and a field goal. Newcastle’s points came from tries bv Steere and Brown and Brown converted two tries and kicked two penalty goals.