MAORIS BEATEN

Taranaki Daily News, 15 July 1935, Page 7

MAORIS BEATEN

BRILLIANT FOOTBALL INFLUENZA TAKES TOLL QUEENSLAND’S HOOKING VITAL FACTOR IN MATCH TARANAKI MEN DO WELL I . . . -—- By Telegraph—Press Assn— Copyright. Rec. 7,30 p.m. Brisbane, July 14. Queensland beat the Maori. Rugby team yesterday by 39 points tg 22 in a brilliant game. The home team excelled itself and the visitors also played fine football. r The gate receipts were £560 and the attendance 12,000. The Maoris lost the game by losing the ball, Bonis getting 80 per cent, of it. . . A rearrangement of the back division, consequent upon influenza keeping Reedy and Chase out.of the team, found Hemi in a strapge role. He was i)pt the force he was at three-quarter at Warwick. Queensland played brilliantly, well above the usual form. Three field goals to the home ride made a big. difference in the. trend of the game. In the loose rucks Kershaw, Harrison and Cooper gf the Maori team, were brilliant and with Ngaia and Smith in dashing mpod alnxgst put the game beyond the Queenslanders in the eaply stages. Without the. ball ip the. second half Ngaia and Smith were .not the same force; hence Queensland's victory. Nepia was brilliant in patches, but on the day was pv.ershadgwed by. Vtocent, Queensland’s best player on the day. Sparkling sunshine, springy, turf, a magnificent attendance and Queensland’s .Governor, Sir Leslie Wilson, greeted the popular Maoris. It was the champagne of football from the start, - The teams w'ere:— Maori team: Nepia; McDonald, Ngaia, C. Smith; Mellish, Hemi; H. Harrison; Rogers, Kawe, P. Smith, Whiteley, G. Harrison, Cooper, Whip, Ifershaw. Queensland:" F, Vincent; D. M.<?Leam P.L. Dixon, N. Ward, J. Kirwan; L. Lewis; G. Bennett (captain); V. Birmingham, E. Bonis, J. Ritter, B. Doneley, V. Wilson, K. Suter, F. Whygtt, D. Nicholson. 7 SPECTACULAR FOOTBALL, Within ten minutes Hemi scored a penalty goal. Hemi .and Ngaia Jidspecr tacular work, .paying the y/ay for .a try scored hy Smith- Hemi goaled. Queensland’s forwards w.er.e stopped on the iipe by Whiteley and Hj?im kicked another penalty. The hopker, Bonis, gained Queensland's fir§t try from a luje-put. A great Maori backline movement sent Smith Ml Again, It WAS thrilling football. Wgrd scored a second try for Queensland and Doneley goaled. The Maori forwards were on top except in hooking and Queensland was kept busy defending. Hemi kicked another penalty goal. A Queensland forward rush, in which the backs joined, resulted in Dixon seoring a try. The half-time score was:— ■' Maoris' ... t . t ' ft u• ••>•••• I 7 Queensland ................... 11 (.(With great tackle .Jfepja. stopped the flying Queensland -winger, McLean, but Vincent kicked a great field goal. Queensland took the lead with a try converted by Doneley- Bennett passed to Lewis from the base of the scrum and Lewis scored. Doneley converted. The football at this . stage was exceptionally bright, 14 points being scored in 14 minutes. The Queensland backs were brilliant in this spell and the Maoris were getting very little of the ball. An intercepted pass gave the Maori forwards their chance and Kershaw scored a determined try. Hemi goaled, Vincent kept the Maoris from going oyer with great line-kicking, though the visitors pressed with the forwards doing great work. QUEENSLAND’S FINE FINISH. Queensland, getting all the ball, played wonderflfl' football. Birmingham from a forward rush put Queensland six points ahead. Then the full-back, Vincent, kicked his second field goal, this time from halfway. The Queensland backs ran away with the game in the last few minutes and a brilliant movement ended with Dixon scoring- Finally Lewis kicked a spectacular field goal from near the sideline. The game ended:— Queensland .' 39 Maoris 22 Influenza continues to take toll of the team. Chase, Tdataira and Phillips were removed to St. Helen’s Hospital with a worse attack than that experienced by J. find JK. Reedy. To make matters worse, Mr. W. J. Wallace, co-manager, is illAll of the team’s five-eighths are at present unavailable, which is cruel luck for the tourists. . Mr. Wallace disobeyed the doctor’s orders in order to see the match, but his condition is ■ improving. He said after the match that the Maoris must tackle better, but he thought they would go close to beating Queensland next Saturday. : EIGHT HAVE INFLUENZA. ’ C. Smith and H. Harrison were sent to hospital last night. The two 'Reedys : are fit again and have joined the team < at Brisbane, while Mataira and Phillips . will leave hospital soon. i At one stage eight were down, but ; now there are only three. The men just recovered must have derived bene- : fit from to-day’s outing on the luxurious yacht Cambria on Moreton Bay, for ’the sun was beautifully _ warm. When the team was going on the field ; fc' yesterday Nepia said to H. Harrison, ' '“You look sick.” Harrison replied: “I feel rotten, but I can carry on.”. When all these things are considered the Maoris’ display was meritorious. Mr. Wallace is delighted that Reedy will ,again be available. “Rugby Union, thanks to the Maoris, i has received a very big fillip and no better display of football has been wit- ■ nessed in Queensland for many years,” i comments the Brisbane correspondent of the Sydney. Sunday Sun. “The home i side by emulating the visitors’ free style registered a convincing win. Influenza ( is unfortunately taking its toll of the. ; Maoris, who are severely handicapped, i and some time may elapse before they. I are able to do - themselves justice.” |