DOMINION'S LEAGUE TEAM

Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1930, Page 9

DOMINION'S LEAGUE TEAM

“HEAVY LOSS ON THE TOUR” DEROGATORY STORY DENIED DEFEAT BY METROPOLIS Sy Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Ree. 10 p.ra. Sydney, Aug. 4. The evening newspapers here state there is likely to be a heavy loss on the New Zealanders’ tour and if more money is not raised the visitors will be stranded. On the bank holiday in Sydney today numbers of sports fixtures were held in fine weather. In a Rugby Union game Waratahs defeated The Rest by 31 points to 11. In the Rugby League return match Metropolis defeated New Zealand by 34 to 22. The teams were: Metropolis McCormack, Boyle, Woods, Black, Kesscy, Johnson, Lynch, Rogers, Benning, Thornton, Pearce, Bishop, Lloyd. New Zealand: Gregory, Tittleton,- Dodds, Scalar, Meyer, Pearce, Abbott, irautvotter, Eckhoff, Clark, Timms, Dufty, Jones. The match was poorly contested with indifferent .handling and lack of team work by both sides. Two thousand spectators were disappointed and there were only occasionally bright enterprising individual moves. Both teams repeatedly placed themselves in advantageous positions to no purpose. Rarely were the points scored as : the outcome of concerted movements; they generally emanated from scrambles with all the ugliness of this type of play. Although the home side won by a comfortable margin of points, there was in reality little difference between the teams The Dominion players opened well and at half-time the score was 18 to 10 in their favour, but they failed to sustain their effort. At one stage in the second half, however, they rallied and regained the • lead, the score then reading 22 to 21, but the, localplayer Boyle relieved the tension by , scoring two tries in quick succession and before time was called other tries were scored. Scorers for New Zealand were Abbott (3), and Dodds (tries), Dufty (five goals).