SPORTS AND PASTIMES.

Hastings Standard, Volume XI, Issue 5553, 26 July 1907, Page 4

SPORTS AND PASTIMES.

Football.

All Blacks in Australia. Brisbane, Juiy 25. An expert opinion 011 yesterday's football match is that the (jiieensianders were outclassed in all branches of the game, and that the best team won. The " Courier " comments : ''You cannot expect a man to stop the kick of a horse, and it is hardiy reasonto expect the kangaroo to stop the kick of a 1110.1 when he is in his most kickful mood, seeing that the big kangaroo was unable last Saturday to stop the self same kicks. Hie plaving ol the All Blacks has tlu power, strength and conviction of a kick from a horse." The " Daily Mail " says ' In the line [mints of the game the local men were beaten, and in handling the ball the difference was most marked. At the same time many wire of opinion that the All Blacks' play yesterday could not b_- compared with the form shown by previous New Zealand combinations."