LEAGUE FOOTBALL

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 271, 21 August 1925, Page 5

LEAGUE FOOTBALL

NEW ZEALAND’S DEFEAT AT COOTAMUNDRA DISSATISFACTION WITH REFEREE’S RULINGS :l i Sydney, August 20. The New Zealand League team played , the match against Cootamundra, which thev lost, after travelling all night. Tney ; then hail another all-night journey, reI turning to Sydney this morning. The . match was strenuous throughout, the visitors being in the lead till just before , the last whistle, when a free-kick put | the local team one point ahead. At half-time the score was: New Zealand I 15, .Cootamundra 10. It had previously been 15 points to 2. Free-kicks were a | feature of the game, twenty-eight being awarded to Cootamundra, against three i for New Zealand. Tries were scored for I Now Zealand by Kirwan (2), Brown, Webb, and Ellis, Mouatt converting them all. Cootamundra’s score consisted of four tries and seven goals. The visitors express . strong dissatisfaction with the referee’s rulings.—Press Assn. REPRESENTATIVE TRIAL GAME. In view of the Auckland representative team playing in Wellington on September 2, the, Wellington Rugby Leaguo will play the first trial match next. Saturday at Emerson Street, Possibles v. Probables. Possibles: Full-back. T. Balks; threequarters, Doekhety, Gray, J. Pollock; five-eighths, Riddell, Evans; half. Hawthorne; forwards, Cunningham, Mouatt, Green, Saunders, Haley, Shananhan; reserves, forwards, Elder, Sharman; packs, Ernshaw, Thompson. Probables: Full-back, W. Smith; three-quarters. Hodgson. Aamodt. Brace; five-eighths, T. Ryan, F. Ward; half, P. Ryan; forwards, Glink, Partridge, Porter, Watt, Atkins, Ramm. Reserves: Forwards, Riddle, Burt; baess, J. Rvan, Watt. Referee Mr. G. Perkinson; touchjudges, Messrs. F. Simpson and Brooks. Under the will of the late Robert Woodside, states an Auckland Press Association message, the Jubilee Institute for the Blind receives £1000; the New Zealand Presbyterian Church, £500; the Flying Angel Mission, Auckland, £200; the fund for the benefit of blind soldiers, £200; and the Anglican Children's Home, Auckland, freehold and leasehold property. Leonora. Parker, who appeared before 1 Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday on a charge of being a rogue and vagabond, was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment with hard labour.