INTER-ISLAND MATCH

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 139, 16 June 1930, Page 6

INTER-ISLAND MATCH

TEAM TOR AUSTRALIA

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, 14th June. The annual inter-island Rugby League match was played at Carlaw Park and ended with considerable excitement with 22 points each. South Island appeared to be hopelessly beaten by! superior backs, but in the last ten minutes the southern forwards outclassed the North, two tries being registered in ten minutes. The visitors' vanguard displayed good form,-espec-ially after losing Townsend, their hooker. The game was fast and interesting, and delighted the crowd, -which was estimated at 14,000. ; The score at half-time was seven all. O'Brien (West Coast) scored and Eckoff kicked two goals for South Island. For North Island Clark scored and Dufty kicked two goals. In the second halt M is.cnzie, Pearce, and Calder scored tries, while Pearce kicked three goals. For North Island, Brisbane (2) and Timms scored, while Dufty kicked three beautiful goals. O'Brien, "Griffiths, and Dobbs played great games, and EckofE did good work round the scrum, but was given plenty or latitude. Peddie was weak behind the scrum. The five-eighths, Dodds and Amos compared very favourably with Wetnenll and Meyer. Amos made a big impression with splendid tackling. Pearce was easily the best three-quarter. Wethenll and Brisbane played splendidly for North Island, whose backs" gave a clever display of clean passing. Dufty's magnificent line kicks repeatedly saved North. A. Clark, S. Clark, and Timms were North's best forwards. „ ... A League trial match between Possibles and Probables was won easily by the latta- team, 28 points to 3. Following is the New Zealand League team for tho Australian tour:— L. Seagar, C. Dufty, H. Brisbane, M. Wethenll, S. Clark, S.Watene, C. Gregory, L. Barchard, S. Eiley (Auckland), T. Timms, K. Trautvetter, R. Stephenson, G. Tittleton, E. Abbott, W. Jones (Soutii Auckland), E. Meyer (Northland), C. Dobbs, J. Amos (Canterbury), H. Pearce, i. Eckoff- (Otago), J. Griffiths, J. Calder (West Coast). The team leaves Wellington by ■■ the Ulimaroa on 27th June. M. O'Brien, a West Coast forward, would have been a certainty, but an examination after the inter-island game revealed that he had broken a tibia bone. . CHRTSTCHURCH, 14th June. Addington (0) beat Waimairi (0); Sydenham (7) beat Wbolston (0); Hornby Petone defeated Old Boys at League Park, Petone, on Saturday afternoon by 20 points to 26.