Football.
Tito New Zeala'nders in England
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. . . SYDNEY, November 15. illy? late English newspaper comments on the football matches at Home are to hand.
The Daily Mail referring to the Durham match says:— The New Zealanders go on f com victory to victory with startling regularity, and Eugby football circles are becoming alarmed at the continuous rout of the English picked fifteen. Wales seems to he the only, hope and the opinion by no means is unanimous that the Welshmen wiill be able to hold their own with the formidable colonials. In the Hartlepool match the visitorsdazzled the crowd of nearly 20,000 Teesiders with the most brilliant display of Eugby ever witnessed in the County of Durham, or, for that matter, any part of the United Kingdom. Old Internationals who had seen and taken par* j in many stirring struggles, stood' 'to watch the New Zealanders' arnazfng exhibition of speed, strength and cleverness with sparkling eyes and bated breath. The game from beginning to i end was a succession of football pyrotechnics so brilliant, so varied, as to defy description. The paper denominates Wallace prince of all Kugby players. Two old Internationals declared he was finest full-back who ever wore shoeleather. The Daily Telegraph says that for the first quarter Durham played two men short. In tho first half scoring wa equal, and only after a change of ends did the visitors .assert their decided superiority. The play was not wholly one-sided, the home team becoming dangerous sufficiently often to demonstrate that, brilliant as the New Zealanders o.re, it is not impossible to hold them in check and even to make a close struck Not only did Durham make the I\ew Zealanders battle hard for a comparatively small score, but actually overcame their defence.
At Hartlepool, says tho Telegraph, the visitors' cleverness and indefatigable energy were never seen to more advantage, the local men being completely outclassed. J
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8142, 16 November 1905, Page 7
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322Football. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8142, 16 November 1905, Page 7
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