WELLINGTON BEATEN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 253, 23 September 1935, Page 2

WELLINGTON BEATEN.

KILBY FAREW’ELLED. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Sept. 22. In their best performance this season the Auckland Rugby Union representatives beat AVellington at Eden Park yesterday afternoon by 28 points to 14. Auckland's score could easily have been a dozen points higher, especially in the second speli, during which Wellington were kept extremely subdued and could not strike form. It was the last appearance in Auckland of the Wellington half-back and captain, F\ D. Kilby, a former All Black, who is retiring from the game. Kilby was accorded a fine tribute in the applause of the spectators, and Mr H. Frost, president of the Auckland Rugby Union, made a presentation to Kilby on the field, and at the end of the match the popular halfback was chaired off by members of the Auckland team. It was a memorable recognition of a fine player’s services to the game. The quality of football revealed in this game must have gratified Kilby, although Wellington could not repeat the performances which have won them such a fine reputation this season. The visitors opened smartly and at one stage had a lead of nine points to three. It then appeared that Wellington would have an easy win, but Auckland made a sudden and profitable change of tactics. Their scrummaging was more balanced and the backs consistently opened up play, and the forwards exploited short passing with consequences that devastated the Wellington defence. The visitors, once they lost the lead, did not look like recovering, and the success of the northerners justified the drastic experiments made throughout the season to build up a representative team from much untried material. R. K. Anderson, hailed as the find of the season in Auckland, played another brilliant game and scored two tries. Others in the winning team who were in form were Beyer (fullback), Jamieson (five-eighth), and Frankham (half-back). Wellington starred individually but not as a combination. Pollock played finely both as full-back and five-eighth,, while McGreevey impressed on the wing. Lynch and McNeile were excellent forwards. The scores were made up as follow : For Auckland, tries by Anderson (2), S. Hadley, Dick, and Frankham; Beyer converted two and kicked three penalty goals. McNeile, Baldwin, and McGreevey scored tries for the losers; Pollock converted one, and O’Connor kicked a penalty.