LEAGUE FOOTBALL

Hawera Star, Volume L, 5 August 1930, Page 3

LEAGUE FOOTBALL

NEW ZEALAND AGAIN BEATEN. METBOPOLIS’ SECOND WIN. (United Presa Association —By Eiect.no Teleffrapb Copyright.) SYDNEY, Aug. 4. 1 In the Bugby League return match Metropolis defeated New Zealand by 34 to 22. The teams were: Metropolis—■ McCormack. Boyle, Woods, Black, Kessey, Johnson, Lynch, Sogers, Benning, Thornton, Pearce, Bishop, Lloyd 1 . New Zealand: Gregory* Tittleton, Dodds, Sea gar, Meyer,/ Pearce, Abbott, Trnut-votter, Flckhoff. I Clark, Timms, JOuftv, Jones.

The match was poorly contested with indifferent haudling and lack of team work by both sides. Two thousand spectators were disappointed and there were only ■occasionally bright enterprising individual moves. Both teams repeatedly placed' themselves in advantageous positions to no purpose. Bare-,I ly were the points scored as the out-j oomei. of concerted movements - they, generally,' emanated from scrambles with all the ugliness of this type of play.

Although the home side won by a comfortable margin of points, there was in reality little difference between the teams. The Dominion players opened) well and at half-time the score was 18 to 10 in their favour, hut they failed to sustain their effort. At one stage in the second! half they rallied and regained the lead, the iscore then reading 22 to 21, but the local player Boyle relieved the' tension by sooring two tries in quick succession and before time was trailed other tries were scored. Scorers for New Zealand were Abbott (.3). and D'odds (tries). Dnfty (five goals). The evening newspapers here state that there is likely to be a heavy loss on. the New Zealanders’ tour, and if more money is not raised the visitors will he stranded.