Spectacular Rugby

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1021, 11 July 1930, Page 9

Spectacular Rugby

NEW SOUTH WALES'S BIG WIN

Sprint Champion as Try-Getter

PLA'i ING brilliantly, bfew South AN ales, in the presence of 11,000 people, scored a record win of 40 points.to 11 against Victoria at the "" ” Cricket Ground last Saturday week! The terrific speed and sure handling of the ball by the home backs on a muddy ground, was the outstanding feature of the match (says K.C.W., in the Sydney “Sun”). Australia’s champion runner, Jimmy Carlton, in scoring two magnificent tries, left the whole field standing as he raced across the line.

The Cricket Ground was a mud patch when the players filed on to the Held tor the eleventh inter-State fixture. Victoria had won only two matches against New South Wales since the first engagement in 3 889. The present visiting team showed surprisingly good form, but were up against a team of masters, always in command of the situation, and always a dangerous attacking force, and who scored 10 tries to Victoria’s one. The Light Blue back division displayed magnificent form, with every man living up to his reputation. Malcolm was a genius behind the scrum. No player since Duncan Thompson and Chris Me* Kivatt can be compared with this Newcastle boy, the most skilful

nificently under trying conditions. He was never at fault in fielding the slippery ball or catching it on the full, to either run his backs into position, or find the line with long and safe kicks. In the forwards the battle was more even, despite the recognised ability of tho men who represented New South Wales. Victoria, in fact, was a decided surprise packet in forward play, and unexpectedly broke even with a vanguard that has proved its worth beating the All Blacks. Right from the jump the Victorian forwards showed that they were foemen worthy of the best New South Wales steel, and, as the game wore on, they never let up. But forwards alone, however good, cannot win from a team that has such backs as the home side fielded. Cowper and O’Hair, of the Victorian rearguard, played particularly well, but they were opposed by men who possessed that speed which is all-con-quering in Rugby football. Outstanding incidents in the game were the two tries by Carlton, whose extraordinary speed capped two brilliant to register points. Given room to move, Carlton is unhis top pace, and, racing along the wing, never gave his opponents any chance of laying a hand on him. Each time he scored under the posts. On the other wing, Crossman was just as efficient. His three tries were masterpieces.

player at the scrum base that Union football has seen in the past 16 years. Supporting him at five-eighth was Dr. W. B. Sheehan, cool, resourceful, and a faultless connecting link between Malcolm and the threequarter line. Outside him was King, the greatest all-round threequarter in Australian Rugby. Then came White, Randwick's great centre, who was responsible for running the wingers, Carlton and Crossman, into try-getting positions. Behind this brilliant array of players was Westfield, who played mag-