Press Comments.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8142, 16 November 1905, Page 5

Press Comments.

{Received Nov. 16, at 7.47 a.m.) SYDNEY, This day. - In its football comments, the Daily Chronicle says Durham made a good fight in the first half, but iv the second spell the visitors were far and' away better and superior. The stamina of the colonials was telling its tale. The northerners received tue congratulations of the New Zealanders for their really plucky and clever resistance, ibut it was difficult to believe that the *only difference between tke sides was :that-o£ having got over the lne three rtimes. Tiie visitors obviously were not .at full stretch. ...'■.

Of the Hartieppol match it says :— "" It was a sensational reminder of the strength of the colonials to those who had regarded the Durham result' as a •.signof deterioration. Hartlepool sought to confound New Zealand methods by the adoption of the-same formation, but the principle of poison counteracting poison failed to produce a medicative •effect. The co^nials at once took -charge of what was>destined to become a mere exhibition. The New Zealanders' bewildering rapidity in passing completely nonplussed the home team." The Daily Express says-.—"At Hartlepool the visitors, from start to finish, carried out their traditional ot keeping the game warm. With bewildering brilliancy every man .seemed capable of sprinting and ex--changes which were wonderfully clever. .Smith, Wallace and Stead were the celebrities of .the day. They conquered the hearts of the spectators as readily as rfchey .conquered clubmen on the Held."

Major Trevor, ihe Sportsman critic, .declares "there is a very simple explanation of the New-Zealanders' vic.toriei;—namely, that at all points of the .game they give a better exposition of JRugby football than any ot our teams .are capable of giving."