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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 17 December 1913, Page 7

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BY TELBGBAPH-—PRESS ABSOGIATIOX

AUCKLAND, Dec. 17

The New Zealand Rugby team returned by the Niagara except Wylie, who remained to study as a civil engineer at Stanford University. All the men are well, including Roberts, who was incapacitated in the early part of the tour by an injured leg, and Bruce, who has reco.vered from a poisoned leg. The team played sixteen matches and won all. They 6cored 610 points and six points were scored- against them. Three of the six points were for a penalty goal in the All-Star game. Only once was the New Zealand line erossea and that was in the second game against the, University of California. Graham" and R. ttoberts scored 66 points each, and Graham kicked 24 goals in 30 attempts; Lynch scored 16 tries, and McGregor and R. Roberts 15 each. The goal-kicking on the whole was poor, only 57 tries out of 156 being converted; The points scored by individual players were: Graham 66 y ' 11. Roberts 6b;, Stohr 54, Lynch 50, Mitchinson. 46j McGregor 45, McKenzie 36, McDonald 35, Murray 33, Cuthill 31, Douglas 21. Loveridge 20, Wylie .18, Downing 18, E. Roberts 18, Kylor 15, Cain 11, Gray 8, Sellars 6, Dewar 3, Bruce 3, Williams 3, Atkinson 3. The forwards were the mainstay of the team. The tour iis described as having oeeri most en- | joyable.