FOOTBALL.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12871, 5 January 1906, Page 5

FOOTBALL.

* THE MATCH AGAINST IRELAND. * ENGLISH PRESS COMMENT. •f Per Press Association. 0 _____ AUCKLAND. January 4. * Tbe writer for tbe "Sportsman*' in his, ie account of the football match New Zealand ; *" v. Ireland sums up in the following term* —; '- It was reallr a. magnificent straggle, and F New Zealand has fought and won the hardd est game of it* tear, for though Scotland: »- came out of the ordeal better than. Ired land on points, they iandly gave their con-; a querors so hard a game. * That the bett*r j m team won goes without saying. , While >f Ireland, it may be candidly «ud, covered id herself with the glories of defeat, for her ie representatives played grandly a»d not a. us man in the fifteen earned the smallest share * g of blame: they played a* fine a game a* j js could have been wished, but tibcy were sim- i , s ply outplayed. Columns of «tufi" might be j written, but the whole match coodeofies; itself into this—The defeat of the inferior! team by a superior obc at the game * -•» casual observer would be inclined' to say ; thst the colonial* were never 35 points ] ahead of Ireland as the latter had at least; three-fourths of tie play. Thi* they anI donbicdly had, but tie "other fourth whit-i. : fell in the shae of the New Zea landers, was .j.'multiplied into five-fourth*. One* an , j • opening occurred New Zealand took it and the first of tiicsc vt\3<« that whirl) result*d »_ in Deans* first M«rc--a marvellous piece of . judgment ar.d deceit. On the other lur»d. S lieland. in Jhe first half sjot opportunity | aflcr opportunity, principally by aid of her forward, hut these were utteriv undf.KK, al ; as flic failed to \mSl by than, and all Hi? **! rushes- and arand foot, work of Ik j jier pack went for noilinc. As the c<v a? lor.ja] bsclis simply eclipsed Ireland in the if i Hlf. all wj« or«\ snd the Trikh suppurteai men crying inwurdly for the

finiflj- »ot 5 hat Inland did *»ol prove jwsfc a.* k.tayjug a* JCcn- Zealand and «xbibfc equally ah much " got**" to fininb, but *iaripjy l>«:;nwe <» flbtif iieing *mUlmws& in finei**;:c. 'J heir csjK-'nsicjit -of taking Wallace. <,st (i lie Hcrnm a&d making him a. jsutial winger proved all right, a-nd to ti>» wajidcw"* brilliant prrforaiaacc belong* not a. link «f tic <i«dil dtie ta the whole wide. Ho played njally jns.irninV.enl.. and never ■c)D(i> Tria.rlc a niihtaJiti. 'lVdford v, a* a bout in himself, and worked jTiagtii'fiVenily all through, iriilc pa-hap* <.f tie oiker* Allea dcwjjvw jut! ii f--;jn>r;y] word of }>rudN&. Oa<3oO "«-:if jiri.'Tuiih- liu wnalkrt ihalf-ljatJk in* <•.(/!<a.i;ili- have rtitt 'with, hv\ !)}• »<», I »ta,-i« iSj« kart. lirilJiyni,. He loot ii« *loggi:j£ 3il.c a. lit»ti, and never fliticb««. Ro»'biiyn«i to'.i. war game U> tie -end, det-fute hi* aocideat, fcui lie jiair were working aodcr difficulties especially in tl» «jc ,nd ialf. The ii-i»i liree-qtiurlcr line tioug;:-i jjoi fuiuKlwß, well, tJit-v.gi njatiy would, 1 niiinlt, jilt litem dowij as. tit: wtai *j)c4 in tlic lea.ni. Cer,- ; tainiy Matl-jear wan IJIS ieT'i tif lie I2ai' ! and did a lot *f ttiZllimi taxing, vrbSm : afi wa* <tiim grand ia attack. Parke wan j on iie whole p<K>r, wiiile Ecibb «arprii»d all iy iix «.k%-er display and otjol'Jliead'Pd.ne*K. T» Lander*! niici praiw is dot. Me jilaye da magnificient game, hit Jew toraal auMakc* iMjing of irttle mxjojcnf: rraitse far tie N«w may be given "in globo,"' if t ic «xjjre«woa wall »e pajdonedl lie diKtingnißidag featw* of a marvclloM eiriiiitaen was jte dieaaoe»?.« aad bca.-utifal iaouroi-k, while tie manner in wiici tier got. ul.-ere wutb tibr J«a«- cxpa»fwn *,f <mcj'gy at odob rtamped **«n a* ii<? better foam, Dcaiiß was macwfi<«rt. «f a Jot «f backs wiiie UfttdJjyaai vu man-ellot* sm tic bead of a ferjUiaffit forward cambiaaaitm. 55255555555555555