LEAGUE FOOTBALL

Hawera Star, Volume L, 31 July 1930, Page 3

LEAGUE FOOTBALL

WLN FOR NEW ZEALAND BRISBANE NARIRIOMILY BEATEN (United Presr Association —By Electric Teleyrcpb

Oopyrnrnt.j BRISBANE, July 30. The: Nciiv| Zealand League team, with 19 ipoi'nitrs, defeated Birdisbane, with 17. pciints, showing tt'he .belst. fo.nm oif the Queensland tour. The New Zealanders treaded the l .stmlalil crowd! ■presvJKt; to wittne.ss the mn'Mi' ’to a line exbilbitioTUof fre'e lopcni footbald fin: glorious' weather. ‘The iloll ! low f in l g were thei Nciw Zealand team': .Bc/ieke—-(Gregory, Abbott, Brisbane, Sea glair. Amcis, Dodds, AVefhcrill. Forwards l —■‘Gaidar, /Stephenson, . Timms, Griffiths, D.ut'Ty, Eckhoff. ‘The; 'visiitiing barks' and fio'rwaids combined Splendidly in' delightful passing movements. The home side also played' with dash, and interest was well ’ sustained throughout. " Thwards the end , i wit It the sie'ores ei ose, the exic-ko-menit wlas intense, .and only stuhtoxvm , defence, with deadly tafeklimg, checked the determined bursts by the kCea Brisbane men. One 'try by Seagar w.i«. the jcsnlt of a gloiriiotts l movement- staffed by -Eck- , h'off in the home 1 twenty-five. The ball flashed aierosis the held, iCaldor. Ahlbotir. Pitieplvenson, AWtherilll', Dufty amid. Brisbane pattreiphting before the winger I dashed at-inciss'. The! Nelw Zealaivder. Brisbane, wasbrilliant throughciiif, '.Showing finte-.au-. Evipation' in: atltajek and defending well. AVt'hclril i. through an inqury to an ankle, had ho leave the field in The second 1 half. Play wais never one-sided, but the New Zealanders- seoimjed to liavc- the f.lbi'lity always of gdttling out of tight cloiraers. anirll played with: the: ntlnwif confidenk-e th l r l oug(ho.ii , L The scorers were: BrisWane. two tries; Abflwtt, 'Realgar, ‘and Timms, one try each. Eekhrd'f kilckcd y. gclal and n penally goal.