"A FOOTBALL LESSON"

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21264, 18 August 1932, Page 12

"A FOOTBALL LESSON"

VISITING ENGLISHMEN VICTORY IN WELLINGTON FIFTY-NINE POINTS TO EIGHT [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON. Wednesday The English League team gave a New Zealand thirteen a football lesson on the Winter Show Grounds this afternoon when, in an exhibition match, tho visitors scored 59 points to the New Zealand team's 8. Just after the game started, L. Hutt, one of the New Zealand forwards, received a compound fracture of the thumb and retired. s The Englishmen were superior in weight, pace and tactics. Handling freely and throwing tho ball about, they gave the 4000 spectators a brilliant display of passing. The English wing-threequarters, Hudson and Woods, possessed rare pace, and with elusive side-steps frequently raced away from the opposition. Tries were scored for England by Woods (4), Feetham (2), Brogden (2), Fendor and Hudson (2), Williams and Atkinson. J. Sullivan, the English captain, converted 10 of the 13 tries, some with magnificent kicks from tho sideline. The New Zealand team's points were made up of two tries scored by Calder, one of "which was converted by Seagar. LATE MR. A. H. BASKERVILLE VISITING PLAYERS' TRIBUTE [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Wednesday The English Rugby League team this morning paid a tribute to the memory of Mr. A. 11. Baskerville, one of the originators of the League game in New Zealand and Australia, hy visiting the Karori cemetery and placing a wreath on the grave.