ALL BLACKS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 2 July 1925, Page 7

ALL BLACKS.

FINAL GAME OF TOUR

AN EASY WIN

iY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. SYDNEY, July 1. The All Blacks played their final game of the tour against a team picked by E. J. Thorn, captain of the New South Vales team, at Manly. The ream consisted of Sydney and a few local players. The ground was in bad order after a good hard ground. New Zealand won by 24 points to. 9. Lawton, the Queensland Rhodes scholar, who played for London against the 1924 All Blacks, was a tower or strength in to-day’s match. By his good following up he time and again extricated his side from danger. Wise was undoubtedly the best player on the ground. He gave a sterling exhibition of wing play, and though he scored only once, he was responsible for some others.

The home team in the first spell were playing against a strong sun, which sometimes prevented accurate handling. Both sides got about the same amount of the ball from the scrums and lineouts, but the A'l Blacks were making tlie most of it.

McCormick, Righton, Finlayson and Walters were all prominent in bright forward movements. R.ighton’s dribbling rushes were a feature of the game. Harris, at full-back, played his usual sound game. D. Johnston, who had not participated in many games during the tour, showed himself a player of class. Throughout tlie game J:he All Blacks were superior, but they did not have things al) their own way. They were several times "hard pressed, but the New South Wales tendency to kick too hard spoiled most of their likely movements. . The New South Wales ’ practice throughout the tour of the half-hack putting the ball into the scrum proved a hindrance to the backs getting going. When New South Wales got the ball out cleanly and quickly it had to lie there till the half got round to it. By that time the All Black side row men were on to it. For the All Blacks. Wise, Lomas, Wright, Righton, Dickson and Finlayson scored tries, of whom L. Johnson converted three. Lawton scored a try for New South Wales and Doran kicked two penalty goals.

REASON FOR VICTORIES

Received July 2, 1f.15 a.m SYDNEY, July 2

Mr McKenzie, commenting on the tour of the Al' Blacks, said the victories of the New Zealanders were not so much a matter of their possessing superior players, as the difference m style. One reason was the antiquated scrum formation adopted by New South Wales.