RUGBY

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 22 August 1925, Page 12

RUGBY

NOTES. Canterbury have had a disastrous tour, each of the lour matches having been, last, two by a large margin Iho team started out with apparently the blightest p respects. Jit was 10 ip.m. on the eve of the in ter-island Rugby match. “Come on, Cvril it's tame all good footballon.-* were ’ in bed. ’ remarked Maurice Brownlie to his brother, and the two bio- Hawke’s Bay players toddled oft to bed. The Brownlies, and other leadino- players assembled at InveroaagrM, tlake their football seriously, and do not regard occasions when matches are plaved°awa,y from home in the light of a holiday jaunt. There is a lesson in this (says the Auckland Star) for so*n« of our ,representative players who follow another system.

The Southland team on tour is finding a certain amount of melancholy amusement in a little story that isi goi n.o- the rounds apropos of the Hawke s Bay match (says an exchange). d hen Hiazletit was cautioned in the second spell, the referee (Mir. AN . Meredith) pulled up the l game in melodramatic fashion, and fixing a steely eye on Ha.zlett, enquired his name. On receiving the desired information, he administered -a caution in monumental terms: —“Here you: leave Mr. Biownlie .alone.” A few minutes later the following observation by the gamecontroller is stated to have been made to O. Brownlie in connection with a free kick to Southland: “Oh! By the way, Cyril old man, you’re just a yard or two offside'.”

Apparently the term “potted goal’ is not used in .England. In his address the other night on the proceedincr,s of the Imperial Rugby Conference, Mr. S. F. Wilson said that the question of the value of .scores was dismissed, the New Zealand delegates urging tlilat a potted goal should not count more than a try. After a lengthy ddiscu'ssdoai, Mr. Roland Hill, one of the English delegates, interjected: “But you haven’t mentioned a drop-kicked goal yet,-Mr. Wilson.”

“There was a heart-to-heart talk at one stage of the second spell between Masters and M. Brownlie, The Tatter bad knocked Oliver over, anti although the Hawke’s Bay man had the ball, it was something more than a fejfd. Masters ‘hit the roof’ and said things.”—'So says the Manawatu Times, which sent its Rugby scribe to Napier for the Canterbury match.

Charlie Morissey, a three-quarter in the New South Wales Rugby side picked to tour New Zealand, is, one of the select band who have represented the State ii.n both football and cricket.

Rugby veterans staged a match at Wait-ara (Taranaki) recently, the teams being Inglewood] and Clifton. The latter team, included two well-known ex-All Blacks, M. Cain and H. L. Abbot, whilst Inglewood bad J„ Corbett, a former wearer of the fern.

Auckland has won 24 Ranfurly Shield matches., Wellington is second with 19, and Hawke,Bay, though the shield has only been in Napier three years, third, with Id, while Taranaki has siix, and Southland two.

‘What a, change in Malfroy. A, few seasons ago he couldn’t take a ball, now he can’t miss one.” An okl Wellington R.ugby judge’s opinion: Malfroy *'9 fielding against Canterbury wias more than brilliant, it was astonishing. Some of his catches took the spectators’ breath away. They were like slip fielding. He made also a great impression in Hawera.

WELLINGTON v. SOUTHLAND. ' SUMMARY OF MATCHES PLAYED. Matches between Southland and 'Wellington date back to 1898, and the results for the whole period are overwhelmingly in favour of Wellington. There have been 23 games, and of these only four have been in Southland’s favour, three of them in recent years. Summary: Played 23; Wellington won 15; Southland won 4; drawn 4, points for: Wellington 364; Southland 134.