PRESS COMMENTS.

Feilding Star, Volume II, Issue 320, 18 July 1907, Page 3

PRESS COMMENTS.

(Received July 18th, 9.17* a.m.) . Sydney, July 18. Tfce Herald says the Welshmen fotfght like men possessed, but all the fcimeplayed consummate football, and they invariably got the maximum of effect. To the foTwwds belongs the Donom of lowering the histonfi banner of the Silver Fern. Describing the New Zealanders' efforts to retrieve their position, it says: "If they played strenuously before, they did ■ S doubly now when they realised the - task ahead, hut they also realised "Sit ttl^me -imply had to he won. With all Their glorious tfriitionaal the back of them, they bent every cunce of muscle and every ;«*»£* brain power, but they counted without thfe hosts, and the crowd went well nigh frantic when it realised that the Blues were showing them selves the better team, and that the dreaded second half runaway of th< mighty All Blacks was not to be AnT ttience forward, the match wen! on amid continuous cheering. Then perhaps has never been seen on th< ground such enthusiasm as when th< Snquerors of the gwat All Black. lvtaMd to the pavilion. The Telegraph says it was a sweep ing victory for the Blues, who rakec the enemy fore and aft. It was i contest in which the strong manai last found his hold on his reputatiei weakening, and his grip of .oonfl n denoe lessening as against Jus ad versary. and the end of it all w& the spoils went the opposite way. Th< game was contested in an admirabl< spirit. From the outset, slowl; but surely, it went the way of th< home team, whose combination wa sound, tackling deadly, line findinj accurate, and judgment excellent And what of the loseraP The; showed a* much skill as on thepre viow S^urday, and play«d m vigor

ously up to a certain point, as ever, but they were out-generalled— even as they had previously out-generalled others in the past-and were outplayed in all departments of the game. The one thing that stood out in the visitors' play was the grit they showed in the face of /adverse circumstances. That they lost was due to no want of energy or perseverance. „„ , Murmin, the New South Wales captain, attributed the victory to their line kicking. Speaking at a subsequent reunion of teams. Mr Wylie, N.Z. manager, congratulated the Welshmen on their victory which, he said, they honestly deserved. Hunter, the New Zealand captain, declared that every New Zealander would admit that the better team lad won. Mr Wylie, interviewed, admitted that the New Zealanders were I airly and squarely beaten at their cfu game. He had never seen such xn exhibition of back play by a New Zealand or intorprovincial team. The New Zealand backs were at sixes and sevens. Their forwards did not last as long as those of New South Wales, and the backs did not support than.