FOOTBALL.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 763, 28 December 1908, Page 3

FOOTBALL.

AUSTRALIANS AT HOME. [BJf BUJCTBIO t&LUG&APh —^OkYdIiUI.) IPEB PBRSB ASSOCIATION.] London, Dec. 27. . The Australian League (professional) team were defeated by Oldham, the latter scoring one goal and three tries to the former's one goal and a try. Twcilve thousand spectators wit. nessed the match. Messenger succeeded in placing a goal from a penalty two minutes from the start of the game. Oldham, by strenuous play, scored an unconverted try before halif-time. On resuming, a rough and tumble game was indulged in, Aberorombie securing a try at the last minute, which Messenger failed to convert. Swansea beat the Wallabies (amateurs) by one goal and a try to nil. Forty thousand spectators wee present at the match. . Swansea scored a goal early in the game and a try before half-time. Swansea played a considerably better game, forward and outside. During the second half, Griffen was ordered off the held for rough play. [Swansea was beaten by the New Zealand All Balck amateurs by only one point, a potted goal to a try. For the greater part of the game Swansea * led, but in the second half Wallace came to the rescue with a beautiful left-foot goal from a difficult angle. J. Griffen, is one of the " Wallabies' '" forwards, and generally plays in the front rank.]