BRITISH ISLES DEFEATS NEW SOUTH WALES

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 August 1950, Page 3

BRITISH ISLES DEFEATS NEW SOUTH WALES

SYDNEY, August 12.—Before a crowd of 29.000 persons at the Sydney Cricket Ground, the British Isles Rugby Union representatives beat New South Wales, 22-6. Although the British team had only 14 men for three-quarters of the game, and only 13 for the last 15 minutes, it had control throughout, and scored six tries (two of which were converted) to New South Wales’s two. _ i New South Wales was without the services of the Australian captain, Trevor Allqn, and the brilliant breakaway forward, D. Brockhoff, who withdrew 40 minutes before the match opened, because of injuries suffered in inter-State matches the previous week.

During the game, the British team lost its vice-captain, B. L. Williams, and the captain, K. D. Mullen. The New South Wales full-back, W. Gardner, was kicked on his head, and was off the field for the last few minutes. The match refereed by an Englishman, Mr H. Lathwell, Whose decisions were well received. The visitors were superior in all

departments of the game, notably in the set scrums and line-outs, and their backs dazzled the crowd with the ease and speed of their handling. Lewis Jones kicked poorly, converting only two tries and missing several penalties.

In the first half, R. Stephens, D. W. C. Smith and Lewis Jones scored for the British Isles, and Lisle went through for New South Wales. The half-time score was: Britain 11, New South Wales 3. The second half was a repetition of the first, with the New South Wales pack tiring visibly and large holes opening in the defence. J. W. McKay and R. T. Evans , scored early, both from dribbling movements in which no hands touched the ball until it was over the line. Then Lewis Jones, J. W. Kyle, Smith and M. C. Thomas all handled in a movement which saw J Matthews go over in the corner. Near the end of the match, the New South Wales half-back, Burke, who had played well throughout, sent Cross away to score. The game ended with the score: British Isles 22, New South Wales 6. Australian Test Team SYDNEY, August 13.—A surprise selection in the Australian Rugby Union team to play the British Isles in the first test at Brisbane next Saturday is a former New Zealand sprint champion, E. Hills. Hills, who is 20, has represented Victoria against Queensland. He is unknown in Sydney, but deeply impressed the Australian selectors, who saw the Queensland-Victoria match in Melbourne. Yesterday Hills scored two tries for, Harlequins in a Melbourne Union semi-final match. Selected as a winger for Australia, he has been preferred to Arthur Tonkin and a New South Wales country player, D. Lisle, who show up well against the British Isles team yesterday. The New South Wales hold on the Australian back-line has been broken up this time, as the other winger is a Queenslander, Peter Thompson. The forwards have been strengthened by the addition of L. Macmillan, F. McCarthy, and N. Cottrell (all of Queensland), to the exclusion of a former Australian captain, P. Hardcastle. s

CLUB SIDES WERE

WEAK IN PLAYING SATURDAY’S MATCHES

Club Rugby was continued in all grades on Saturday, and there were no surprises except that at Hokitika Kiwi beat Excelsior, one of the leading teams. Because of the extent of I withdrawals to fill the senior team, the Blaketown junior side was unable to offer any opposition to the Technical Old Boys’ team which won by 36 points to nil. All teams were below strength, and a former forward, A. C. Glen, played full-back for United in his' street clothes and without even the benefit of boots. , ~ Reserves for the representative team were not permitted to play with the exception of D. Walker, who turned out for Blaketown. The full list of results is as follows:— TT „ Senior: Blaketown 21 v United 3. Star 11 v Celtic 6. Kiwi 11 v Excel- ! sion 8. Cobden 24 vSt Mary’s 6. Junior: Celtic 6 v Cobden 5. Kumara 8 v Reefton 5. Tech 0.8. 36 v Blaketown 0. Third Grade: Hokitika 3 v Cobden 3. Celtic 6 v Tech 0.8. 3. Fourth Grade: Reefton 6 v Tech 3. Fifth Grade: Probables v Possibles Sixth Grade: Probables 20 v Possibles 0. Seventh Grade: Cobden 3 v Blaketown 3. Star 20 v United 0. Celtic 12 v Kumara 0. Eighth Grade: United 16 v Blaketown 3. Canterbury Beaten I INVERCARGILL, Aug. 13 (P.A.). ! —Southland had a surprisingly easy win over the Canterbury touring j team by 25 points to 8 in a representative Rugby match at Invercargill on Saturday. After holding the j initiative during a ragged first half and for a period of the second half, the Canterbury defence crumbled during the final 30 minutes and alI lowed the home team to pile on 22 'points in tries and penalties. Although they won most of the ball from the scrums and line-outs, the visiting backs were ineffectual on attack against solid tackling. Canter- . bury’s forwards became sluggish in | ie second spell and were outrun in i the loose play. i Budd, Ballam, and McCaw played : excellently for the Southland fori wards, and Wilson (the first fivej eighths), Smeaton, and Millar were i the best of the backs.

Savage, K. Stuart, and Smith were prominent in the Canterbury backs, and Herman was a vigorous leader of the forwards, with Dalzell. For Southland tries were scored by Budd, Bennett, Sanson, and Smeaton. Millar converted two tries and kicked three penalty goals. Smith scored for Canterbury. Stuart converted this try and kicked a penalty goal. The ground was fairly soft in patches, but the weather was fine and sunny at Rugby Park. Railway Trial Match Won By Western The Western district Railway Rugby team (West Coast-Buller) scored a good win over Northern (Canterbury-Marlborough) in a trial match played at Cobden domain yesterday, prior to the selection of a combined team to play Middle and Southern districts, in a South Island trial at Christchurch on August 27. The score was 12-5.,

For Western, tries were scored by J. Diskin and D. Lucas, and T. Williams kicked two penalty goals. A try scored by A. Hamilton and converted by J. Claridge made up Northern’s points. The match was played at a fast pace..and featured some bright back movements. The referee was Mr A. R. Lindbom. The combined team has been selected as follows: —

Full-back, C. Bradley (Ashburton); three-quarters, K. Horrack (Greymouth), N. Rayfield (Canterbury), D. Steel (G.); five-eighths, J. Diskin (Buller), H. Water land (captain, North Canterbury); half-back, G. Parkinson (B.); front row, M. Wells (G.), R. Thompson (vice-cap-tain, G.), J. Duncan (B.); locks, G. Lambepton (G.), M. Marquet (C.); side row, A. Pacey (Marlborough), A. Hamilton (A.); back row, T. Williams (G.). . Emergencies: Backs, P. Collins (C.), D. Rae (N.C.); forwards, W. Seymour (G.), N. F. Chapple (C.). Coast Fifth Grade Team The West Coast fifth grade team to play Canterbury was selected following trials on Saturday. The team is as follows:— Full-back, Spencer (Blaketown);

three-quarters, Sadler (B.), Thorpe (Hokitika), Ashley (Technical); fiveeighths, McLaughlin (Celtic), Havill (H.); half-back, Dawson (T., capt.); forwards, Brown (H.), Stanton (B.), Gibbon (T.),. Ashton (B.), Bluett (T.), McMillan (C.), Gardyne (H.), Veal (B.). Reserves: Forwards, Montague (2) ‘ (H.), Ruston (T.); backs, Bell (H.), Mason (T,), Lawson (T.), Russell (T.).