ENGLISH LEAGUE TEAM

Evening Star, Issue 18715, 18 August 1924, Page 5

ENGLISH LEAGUE TEAM

WIN AGAINST OANTNEENBY, England, played Canterbury in fine weather at the Metropolitan Trotting Club grounds before a large attendance. England won the toss. Canterbury immediately set up a hot attack. Rich and Sullivan stopped. England pressed, but a free kick relieved Canterbury, A etrong English passing rush saw Evans tackle Parkin almost on the line. Another passing rush was stopped by good tackling by Mullins. Parkin made a clever run, and almost got over. Later from a passing rush Rix got over unopposed. Sullivan converted. England 5, Canterbury 0. England continued to attack, and Burgess raced round behind the posts. Sullivan converted. Canterbury recovered ground, and Eli Is and Blazey were nearly over. Parkin intercepted, and Bowman scored. Sullivan missed tho kick. Bowman ran up to tho Canterbury full-back, and Price took his pass and scored. Sullivan converted. Halftime ; England 18, Canterbury 0. On resuming England started a brilliant passing rush, and Parkin went over for a line try. Sullivan missed. C. Fitzgerald kicked a penalty for Canterbury, and for England Parkin scored, and Sullivan converted. At this stage the crowd was excited by tho tactics of both sides, and there was considerable jeerinm Price raced over for England, and Sullivan converted. Bennett got a try after a passing rush. England 34, Canterbury 2. In the final stages England retained the upper hand. Tho game was marked by a certain amount of rough play. Final: England 47 Canterbury 10 VISITORS’ PLAY CRITICISED. (Special to the ‘ Star.’] CHRISTCHURCH, August 18. The English team were not popular with tho crowd, for at times they were guilty of questionable tactics in the way of shep. herding, open obstruction, and unnecessarily heavy throwing of the’ players. There appeared to be absolutely no reason for the tactics employed, for the Englishmen wero in all departments of the game much superior to their opponents, and were never seriously troubled. Though the majority of the visitors played a really sporting game, there wero one or two members who repeatedly offended, and the continuous babble of tongues suggested that there was something wrong with the control of the team. As a whole, had the Englishmen confined their whole attention to the game of football the score would have been much bigger than it wa.s. The Englishment gave a very fine exhibition of the passing game. The Christchurch public is not wholly educated to tho League game, and many times tho referee was subjected to demonstrations from the side lines from many who were ignorant of the rules governing League football. Mr Kirton was certainly lax on occasions in not penalising the visitors for their off-side and obstructive tac. tics; wide ho might very well have taken a firmer control of the game in the early stages.