LEAGUE CODE

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 4, 4 July 1925, Page 19

LEAGUE CODE

■V "MEAKAWAY

NEWS AND NOTES

The code -iras aSectSd Try the sternly weather which prevailed last Saturday, and, in consequence, the match set down for Emerton street had to be abandoned. Only one game was played—at Petone— and in this the contestants had a vety. enjoyable game of water polo. The local selectors met la«t Monday night and picked the team which is to do battle against Canterbury to-day. The result of this match will be known by the time these notes appear in print. Canterbury are very strong this year, but the local team should be capable of giving the visitors a hard game. The A and B representative match, played at Emetson street a fortnight ago for the purpose of picking Wellington representatives for the North Island team, was a good exhibition of the code, although not up to the standard of the game played by practically the came two teams at Petono a week or to pi»viously. Wellington sueciseded in getting Carroll, et-Manawatn and New Zealand Rugby Union tup., itt the- North Island team. Hs hat since met with the approval of the New Zealand selectors, and goes with the New Zealand team to Australia. The enthusiasm •hown by Carroll for the cod« aright well be emulated by some of the local players. Carroll journeys down from Palmerstoa every Weak-end to assist his club, Newtown, and ho pays Iris expenses out of his own pocket. '■ "Sanko'* Green Will b*O«t today. His weight will be useful, in the forwards. It is hoped that h» allo has on his kicking boots. The North versus South Wand m«teb at Auckland kst week wa* unfortunately played in a downpou* 6f rain, add the attendance suffered in consequence. The game, however, was full of thrills frbrn beginning to end; The South were superior in the rahguard, but it wae th* uncanjiy handling of the North backs and their combined work that Won the day. It speaks volumes for thei wet weather possibilities of a team when it Can run 1 up 27 points against tough opposition dn i a ground that resembled'a quagmire. Score* in Plenty. The wonderful feat of fcenny Wearing, the brilliant South Sydney wing thi'ee-cjuaiter, in scoring 41 of the point* recorded by N.S.W. in the match against Queensland recently, although by no means a record, recalls the great performances of "Dally" Messenger arid Harold Horder, when they -were such great scoring mediums for N.S.W. Wear* ing Stamped himself in the game as one of the finest wingers* produced by this State, and his name will rank alongside those of famous men who filled the position in the past. In the season of ISII the wonderful "Dally" Messenger scored 32 points on the Saturday when N.ff.W. fc:st beat Queensland by 65 to 8. On the Wednesday when N.S.W. seconds w<m by 49 to nil, "Dally" scored 20 points, and he registered another 20 on the following Saturday, when N.S.W. third* beat Queensland by 33 to 5. "Dally" w»s the great draw in thc«e days, and he Was kept in all three t<:4m«. In the three matches against. Queensland he scored 72 ef a total of 146 points—Matly half. In that season Messenger, in representative games, sGoi*d 10 tries and 46 goals, 122 points; and for' Eastern Suburbs 8 tries and 62 goals, 148 pointe, making the wonderful total of 2?0 points for the season. Holder's great record , :ig»inst Queensland was in 1915, when he played in two matches between N.S.W. and the northern State, and scored 60 of the 92. points scored by N.S.W. In the first game he scored 5 tiies artd 8 goals, <51 points, and in the second, 5 tries and 7 goals, 29 points. Wearing, in three matches this season, scored 40 of the 55 points registered by N.S.W. against Queensland, as fallows: First match, 1 try 3 goals, 9 points out of IS; second match, 5 goals 10 point* out of 13; third match, 3 tries, 6 goals, 21 pointe out of 27.

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