STIFFNESS, CHAFING AND ABRASIONS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13449, 24 November 1905, Page 2

STIFFNESS, CHAFING AND ABRASIONS.

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Inst season, Heavy as wits the score, it in 110 Way flattered the winners. t'o nil intonts and purposes .the match was over in less than 10 minutes, when tho New ZenIfttitlcra had scored twice and kicked a couple of goals. Afterward all was plain sailing for them, and tlioy never once released their grip of the game. At all points the Middlesex men were quite outclassed. Their forwards at times swung the scrummage and made some little headway with footwork, hut they did not pack with the solidity and regularity of their opponents. 11l the matter of ohtaininpr tho hall they were ont-manrcuvred, the New Zealand ' hookers' getting it nine time? out of ten find then heeling out smartly. Behind the scrummage tho disparity was most marked, the Middlesex hacks being hopelessly beaten for pace, promptness, and general rcjourcc, Their efforts were nearly always of a defensive character, and not once did they hring off a decent bout of passing. Slow in their movements, they fell easy victims to their quick opponents, who rarely allowed a Middlesex back to run any distance. The New Zoalauders are more finished than when I saw tliam at Exeter, and have settled down into being a really formidable side. With their backs promptitude is the prevailing note. Everything they attempt is done quickly, and that means much. They are wonderfully clever individually, anil their passing at times Teaehed a- high level of excellence. Occasionally they tossed the ball in the air a little indiscriminately, but. there was always someone ready to be 011 it. As a jmirnalistin comrade remarked, tho field seemed alive with New Zealamlors."

Tn reference to the New Zealandors at the Middlesex match an Anglo-colonial journal has the following remarks:—"A 111.1 srnificout body of men they looked in their sombre black, only relieved hv a. single silver fern-leaf. The Englishmen looked smart and ready enough, but not so chunky and fit as their opponents. Appentances are not always deceptive, and the run of the game from tho very outset showed the visitors were quite as good as they looked, and well able to sustain the remarkable reputation they have acquired. It looked easy enough, too. There was a kick-olf, a return, and a mix-up. Then two or three men in black bad a game with the hall, while the other fellows looked 011 in seeming impotence. . The try was secured without any . unnecessary trouble, and tho nonchalant. Wallace did the rest quite as a matter of course. A few minutes later another try, and another easy goal. Now Zealand were 10 points to tiio good, and everybody said that, football was as easy .13 shelling peas. Then the men from down, under pulled out some of their cabinet tricks. A good many spectators agreed I hat they did not play any special style of game, and seemed rather resentful o[ the fact. But they nlayod ally style that suited best. One fellow, named Smith, is about the dodiriest man 'over seen on a football field. It looks dead eney to iaok'o him, because lie seems to run in a straight line—and lie goes at an awful bat, too. Tfewas once a champion hurdle-racer, which may have something lo d" with if. Anyhow, lie passes his men !i a snaky sort of twist, and rtill poing iust as fast as ever. Smith is worth seeing. Tliev are all worth seeing, for that matter. Thoy play the game with such oiierey and vim: they always do the right filing, wbMi is not always the exnecled thing. When thev Q'rab a man th"y do it good and hard. When they go inlo a scrum they go to work like so many lions. Jt. is a fine exhibition of manly vigour and concentration of effort. No wonder they win." A FOOTBALLING NEW ZEA LANDER'S A'JEWPOINT. "In common with every Now Zcalander in town who could possibly manage if, I went on Wednesday to Stamford Bridge to see the New Zealand team meet Middlesex. Tile keenest interest was taken in the event by everyone with or without an interest, in the game. 1 may give an instance of how general was the interest. The match was timed to begin -at 3.15. Before 1 o'olock I called at the chambers in the Temple of an eminent K.C. Everyone lwd gone to Stamford Bridge with tho exception of a single cleric, who'was just about, to 'sport the oak-' And lie was just oft' 'to see these New Zealandors.' too. A heavy downpour, however, must have considerably interfered with the attendance. Still, so great, was the crowd that it was difficult to pick out anyone one knew: Among those present, however. I noticcd Mr and Mrs Tcsehemakor and some friends, Mr and Mrs Clifford, Mr H. C. Cameron and Mrs Cameron, Miss Sidcy, Mr J. Kirkloy Campbell, and Miss Barr. All the New Zenlnnders present were, of course, enthusiastic, but the unanimity of feeling among the London port ion of I lie crowd was remarkable. The colonists were playing Middlesex, which, of course, moans London. Yet all the enthusiasm seemed to be for the visitors, who certainly appeared to have inspired a general stale of funk among Ihoir English opponents. ' They are a dashed hot lot,' was the common comment as the colonists began 10 pile up points. Other opinions freely expressed were that the team could beat a picked body selected from tho international teams of England, Ireland, Scotland, and iVales—and 110 higher praise could come from tin English footballer. There were, however, some Welshmen present who wont, away from .Stamford Bridge with the idea that when the New Zcahindcrs get to the principality in December they will meet their nialcli. They based their opinion upon the Welshmen's known dexterity in passing and tackling—particularly lwrliaps the latter. The Welshman is a little fellow, and 110 tackles a big fellow just where 110 should bo tackled—that is to say, front Iho knees downward; and that is ilic sort, of tackling which tho New Zealandors have not yet mot. W 7 hothor tho opinions I quote above, and which I gleaned at the match, are well-founded time only will show.' But, all agreed that Rugby football in England is getting a shaking-lip, and lovers of tho Rugby game a.re glad." This_ morning I had a chat with Mr P. A. Vailn (Auckland), who saw this week's match in London, and he gave 1110 his opinion on the result. Mr Vaile said that tho game itself was almost ridiculous. On one side were great, fast.' strong men, who spurned the ground and who seemed lo have only 011 c object—to reach their goal -and who went for it, brushing aside those who opposed them as if they wero a team of schoolboys. On tho other side was one of England's heat letims playing with tho leaden shackles of tradition, form, custom, the stereotyped game that, goes to pieces when confronted by superior combination, strength, pace, and resource, and is swept, away as chaff before the wind. 'Mr Vaile has been rolling England through the columns of tho Spectator that her youth is "toneless" and lacking in virility, and in order lo push home bis arguments 110 point* to the results which tho New Zealandors have achieved. Of all games that are played, 110 says, none demand so emphatically all tho qualities that go to make-a Briton as does Rugby football. Now Zealand contains about 750,000 people; London alone contains 7,000,000. Middlesex played New Zealand, and the score was New Zealand 34 to Middlesex's nothing. The total points in favour of Now Zealand are now 227, tho scores being 231 to 4, and that 4 was a fluke.

"Is it necessary to sav more ?" asked Mr Vaile. Continuing. ho remarked that this must be a serious lesson to England that tlie real {pie'lion of importance now is not so much Will the Now Zealanders cover themselves wilh glory—for that is already assured,—but will England bo able to bear herself with credit, to show that the cry of the keen observers, of men like Lord Rosebcrv and Sir J. Crichton-Browne, that Tingland is fast, .marching toward inefficiency and deterioration, is wrong? Mr Vailc tells me ho intends to put this aspect of the matter vory forcibly before the British public, for, as he truly says, the vis inertia, the splendid immobility of that wonderful body has to be experienced ir one would realise it. Sneaking of the actual play. Mr Vailc described the men as " a grand lot of fellows, fast, strong, clashing, and resourceful.- They work like a machine so long as the machine will hold together, and then, when it. is broken, it is a hydra-headed affair, and each head is worse than the machine, for it proceeds to do, according to Emrlish ideas, all manner of strange and unprecedented things." One man standing near the New Zenlander amused him very much: he Pit id: "The ground serins to be full of these black devils": .-.ml it was true, for dirrctlv tlicv split up they, were nil over it. Another gentleman, who bccamc excited, roared, "Plav the gamp. New Zealand!" wbpreupoii the visitor from the colony, 'who was siandinc by him. gently murmured to him. "Seems as if thev am trvin?- to, as it is now ?.9 to nothing-" Mr Vp.ilo terminated his romarlt« by saying that if tbe country bad taken the risk of scndinc: the team Home it, would have been mon"v well spent, for it brims Mew Zealand's name to the front in all tho papers thrquirhout the Kingdom, whore that name it'" too seldom seen.