NEW ZEALAND ENERGY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13030, 22 November 1905, Page 1 (Supplement)

NEW ZEALAND ENERGY.

One of the strongest features of the "Blacks'" play is their method of • tackling. The above sketch is a clever attempt to give an impression uf their brilliant, , - and spectacular tactics.

Everybody who is anybody in the Rugby world has already exhausted his supply of superlatives in tendering praise to the New; Zealand Rugby fifteen. But the sweetest compliment th.it> wonderful team is likely to receive lias not yet crept into the papers. The truest guides of football are, after all, the enthusiasts of the North, and remembering this, a shorthand reporter, armed with note-book and pencil, lias been listening to 'the of the multitudes. : If' some subtleties of expression escaped him lit must be put down to the fact that elbow-room was jsearce, and some of the peculiarities of the

Northern dialects defy even Pitman. "A knaws sum mat 'bout 1/ game,'' said a. broad! fellow, who had Bradford " vrit- ■ large" all ov'ey him. "A used to taake for Brigus, but owd lad, a never seed awt lalik it afoowj. They're lahk eels all ovi.r 1/ shop ; 'appen it nd be as well it ar eliAps wer fed on New Zealand mootten they might pois in ball lalik them chaps and slip aboat like whippets. T' passin' is champion. They to as sharp wi' their 'ands as chaps wot conies to t' fairs and brings a duck aht o ycr waistcoat." "Eh, lod, the New Zealandors knaw how to fetch a chop down. The- don't 'alf. 'A ( tkcak they will hove to>it uss suiiimal, but

mm—N m——W A ' diagram showing the relative position* of an lOnglish and New Zealand team during: a " serum." ' 'ft will - be seen : that, the New Zealaiiders have only seven forwards—the eighth man being called a' " winger." Other differences are clearly , shown. a should 11a bo at aw! surprinaed if tha liadna git a. pint or twa fra uss." But . perhaps the crowning triumph of the colonials is found in. the tribute of the New'c&etle • " l.k-.ordie." " Boeiashun's ma gvme. A a gang to see. Newcastle ivery Satterda. This is the forst Rugby match a a io;..watched; to a finish. , Aye, lood, tie an ee-oppener. Aa 'd read thot Zealanders wot suminat abuvc the ordinary crood, an.' they arc. II ivory Rugby match is like his, aa'ni doni/>vi' real futba'. Yu see, a doan't understood this .'ejo game. But aa'm noon a fule, an' when aasee a chap chucked roond in a,ring an' vat an' yat keeking ball, ,aa know he's conny hiauy."—Daily Mail. ,