SOLDIERS AT FOOTBALL

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 152, 27 June 1917, Page 2

SOLDIERS AT FOOTBALL

SOUTH BEAT NORTH ISLAND.

\ <«0M ODR OWN CORRSSPONDENI.)

LONDON,, itt May.

. Rugby football fifteens the South Island and 'NortK'.. Island of ' New Zealand, drawn from the N.Z.F.A., now training at Oldham, played-a game on behalf of. the funds ..of-the-Oldham- , Royal Infirmary. For:some';weel« past several of the New* Zealariders' have bean assisting the Oldham ■'Club. The game was played~uridef Rugby Union rules, and was'watched ,by 32,000 per- < sons: Oldham,.'of, course,'■:•"] 'plays the Northern Union game,'- and :;' the' local critics express their,preference for their own style.-In the end; the cSbuth Island 1 won by two goals and tyro- tries to two tries. The teams' were: — . „A ."■"•••• North Islaiid, {red • and liavy): ■ Sergt. ' Walker?' Sergt, Lynch, dpi: Virtue, Gun. Aitken; • Gun. Barchard, Gun, Reid; Gun. Udy; Gun: .'Morris; Gun. Ropiha-, Bomb. Murphy, Gun.- Gibbons, Gun..- Bilkey, '.Sergt, Heenan, Gun, Rogers; wing forward, Gun. Gardiner. South Island (black and white): Cpl. Falla; Gun; Graham, Gun. Kirwan, Gun. Smith; Gun. Hariey, Gun.: Blackrnore; Gun./Hotop; Lieut. Jones, Cpl. Hassall, Gun. Cartwright, Gun., Jenson, Gun. Crombie, Baftery-Sergt.-Major Joyce,. .Gun. > Grace; wing -forward, Gun. Carnegie. Referee, Sergt..:.; J. R. .Fraser. > . ' ' ••'■'.' • BOXING ATCODFORD..* . v, Boxing and wrestling bouts were held by tho men of the New. Zealand Command' Depot in the regimental institute at the camp. Pte. Leach beat'- .Pte. Quill (A.1.F.) in the first Tound: ■ Pte:- "", King beat Pte. Stewart, an easy win on' points throughout < !the s three f rounds. Pte.. Rundle Beat Pte. Gimmell. Rundle was declared winner by a narrow mar- ■•■ ■ \ gin. Pte. Dudley and Pte. Mac Donald ' were two well-matched middle-weights, and the referee declared the bout a ,-. draw. The referee decided "no contest" ;/■ in the bout between Pte. -Sullivan and: Pte. Ponifrett. The former was a veteran, and tlie-latter a novice. , . '■''■*

The wrestling was the catch-as-catch-can style, between Staff-Sergt.-Instructor , G. de Relwyskow (A.G.S. attached to ' the A.1.F.), light-weight amateur champion and winner of the Olympic Games Championship, and Cpl. Beattie, middle and heavy-weight ' champion weight-lifter of Australia. Hclwyskow proved the winrior in two straight falls, gaining the first in 15min. 2sec., and the second in 4min. 15sec. During the proceedings L.-Cplj Kirby, A.1.P.',, gave a stirring . recital, entitled, "How th» hell-gate of" Soissons was won." . '