NEWCASTLE BEATER

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 49, 4 July 1929, Page 5

NEWCASTLE BEATER

BY ALL BLACKS.

;BIG lead. VISITORS' FINE PLAY. NEWCASTLE, July 3. By 35 points to 8 the All Blacks defeated Newcastle to-day in the second match of their tour. There were 4000 spectators. The All Blacks started off in a manner that suggested they woiAd prove to be superior; in every department of the game. Fine pack wofk and brilliant passing in which Geddes shone were features of the various stages of the match. The New Zealanders were not long in scoring and established a good lead before Newcastle, per medium of Hammill scored a try which was converted. The All Blacks continued to show fine play and the forward line was exceptionally good. Newcastle scored a try again in the first half, which ended;.

All Blacks l 1 Newcastle 8 After the interval the All Blacks carried the game before them and, with/ the exception of Individual efforts by one or two men in the Newcastle side, the local team were outclassed. Geddes, Waterman, Gundy, Oliver and Stringfellow were towers of strength to the All Blacks. In the second half the Newcastle team tired. Dally, the New Zealand captain, went off the field early in the second half with an injured shoulder. The final score was: All Blacks 35 Newcastle 8 The teams were: — All (BlacfcsL— Strin'gfeStew, Waterman, Carleton, Geddes; Oliver, Gundy, Dalley (captain), Hook, Snow, McWilliams, Mahoney, Steere, Reside, Palmer, Souter; ' Newcastle. —Burke, Hammill, Doyle, Rutherford, Howell, Ward, Pooley, Jones, Swan, McKen/ie, Sanderson, Greaves. ;

Nepia did not play owing to ah injury to his back.