FOOTBALL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13996, 3 September 1909, Page 6

FOOTBALL.

y THBQV tBBKI.T. IS ENGLAND. ■■ l^ftae' AHodation-Ity Telegraph-Copyright ?':• - LONDON, Sept. 1. . Jmb declared in the dispute pending farther ■ neftinriatinn removed' jJjSifcl auspensioiia and a match is febping pbjedi . _ - - wtT.r.miKS SUSPENDED! m*,S " r f - - ' r* - r * ' SYDNEY,- Sept. 2. litee of the Met roihas considered BSt the .Wallabies, examining: several: >dV the. following f Barge, Craig, tfcCabe, McKni.Farnsworth and H given that ofbad been made to 3oath:Wale»- ama*. petit* of -matches M.'' t - ' ~ '' mHYv.J\SHW. « , v \ . , Mutative fcarta l.Wtch on tlie. reatber ,w m m* f»/pdat of ?**i ading-behind. Abeitaelf felt, tbaorder-of tiw taelf,-before play deceptive appearAsiderabljr .better ;' walk; acrosa ;it ermi wtf -aear tjhe;timethefint ;'?«•» • emend was cum- I * the. Mk'of 'tbe, - *; bother the men atho teaaw soon Kqr were:vrffrr. lad».'' Tbe fol"A- 4 Fergus, _■ T.■ ,■ :'Cud £. Thomas:; greemaadblack). Iqr. G. Wan, B. ■vac.-' i • ' , the scores .the bitioa? town went ■ber'of poiaU a* a&'ttestateof igreeaMysurprisslnbition; putup hMb yesterday, ■bt'thatbadthe MttkCanterfmi? - tacfcias do<w : bjr ■s-'-in stbe fiiit sr staim of -the omyiwl <m the

icfcnsivc, and had no time given tlicn p develope any aggressiveness. Th« south "Canterbuiy representatives ai tered their tactics completely in, tin teiiond spell, and'-with.good results, foi [be opening up of the game by tlti forwards instead of by tiic - backs.cani< 'jf and i the' (i reensv scored: liv< of their six tries in tliat lialf. Tli* pace-kicking allthrough was poor the 'greasy, ball accounting ' for this, "*1 none of the tries were converted. Ash burton'kicked off, and defended the western goal, and the ball being well returned and -followed, a free was "raided to the visitors,; who .lost their ■dvsntsge -through i man being in front. The hall going,- out-, .was ■upprf lip at the throw* in by. H; 1 rJy who lost a chance at scoring by dropping- the leather -at ' a critical tnor ment, and Ashbnrton toot tlie filayto the ' halfway, '.line, »the rush being ■topped by Brjidlcjr. \ Shortly from an off-side awarded to South Canterbury, Jones 'performed • a .tricky run, put was stopped by an infringement, ■nd the resulting penalty. to: Ashburton *a* charged down. . Burgess got •way fron' some loose play, and was griMCij by t J. Coles before "he had proKKwd very far. A little bout of lons kiting ended bya line-out, in the Ashburton 25, whero scramble was ended by Page l marking,. Bradley - retaining the kick. Spillane marked a high kick by Ashburton, and Jones took a shot at goal, which fell short), and the Ashburton hack touched.down. J. Coles.returned the kick out, and'the ball went out. Cromie got away for Ashburton. but wax stopped by Coles, and an exriting, bit of''play up tlie line ended in Q.Colea marking." Joocs' -attempt-: again- failed. A likeii attempt at'*scoring watr just saved it time, by Ashburtoa, jarlio iwcol.. . J series ofattick* by SwithGanterliur failed, .to get- through the Whites' de fence, though the. hoiqe team managec to* keep the. northerners well witliit thor 20, and on' the/few occasions it which they broke , sway, Scott, was 01 th«'qot~every time and stopped tlx rash. Off-side play by Ashburton' re salted in s free -for South Canterbury who gained very little advantage fron thepenal ty. Ashburton got away pasl thehalfway with one .of'their ratliei infrequent' rushes, but lost the bal promptly, and. from sacrum Souti Canterbury marked and relieved. Thi Whites' subsequent attack faded away and. a ragged nub bytboGreen* endet in; J. Scott scoring, SpillaneV kiclc fail ingto add to the score. South Cart terbury 3, Ashburton 0. After a goot deal of (Jose play halfway down, the line, neither/side gaining much advau tagej J. Coles took a mark 'from a line oat, V ud Morgan, who took th« kidfe made, a good attempt; but -die no«?ood, and halftone sonnded'. Oi resuming, Jones''kick found the lin< in the Ashburton 25, ,«>d from th< line-out Thomas smartly marked, am relieved the pressure. From a penalty awarded to South Canterbury, Jones had a great shot at goal, ana just hil the cross-bar. A' scramble ensued; and -Ashbnrton forced. : South Can. terbury attacked strongly, and an ex citing melee took' place right in froni of the visitors' goal, who .defender well. Jones . had. another roiS-shot al goal'from"ai penalty,- and immediately after Moffett marked, and Spillane took the" shot, with no result. "A paaang rush, instituted by 'South Can terbury, wa* stopped- by Page . mark ing for Ashburton,- and. Spillane re

tiiriicf] with ;i high kick and follow J. Coles < vcutually crossing the 1m

from it .scrum. Spillanc's kick failed to ;tcltl the major points. 6—o. .Almost immediately after the Green l>acks izst away with a line passing rush, the two Coles, Spillanc, Bradley iiud Wall taking part. Wall dropped Jlis pass, but recovered well, andgrounded the hall. The kick was taken bv Morgan, who failed. 9 —o. from some loose play Manning x got the ball, passing to Jones, who passed to J. Scott, thence to Hegarty, who scored. Jones missed the kick. 12 —0. The Greens' policy of alternating the game was paying, and the prospects tor South Canterbury looked rosy. A knock-on stopped another rush by the home team, and Bradley found the line in the Ashburton territory with a good kick. The Greens were bent on making things lively, and Spill ane ran through the visitors' pack, passing to Motfett, who was stopped by Page. Ashburton then took a turii •at »t----tacking; and rushed the ball to halfway, where line-out play resulted in Wall marking, and'play gravitated to the Ashburton 25, when the game wafe stopped to allow McKenzie to recover from a fall. - On resuming, Horgau and Campbell; scored . between them, aud' Bradley's; kick failed.: 1-s—o. Ashburton were forced again, and a lot of close and exciting play in front "of their goal, ended in Spillane and G. Coles .crossing simultaneously. : • * Spiilane took the kick and failed to convert, and the whistle sounded with the scores, South Canterbury 18, Asiiburlon 0.

TEAMS FOR NEXT WEEK. The teams for the games to be playlet! oii inursday are as loJiowsf— . • jx iiuuu \y. Uuigo, at Oamaru; ij. iscuttj i>. xlaruui, u. J>ra<liey," ti. Uall, u. bpikaue, u. tolcs, U. nagerty, xi. Maiming j. Alouctt, it. CUuipucll, tl. <IOUCS, if. bcou, U. X'lti.geraui; it. Rodgers (caiitain). Jixtra luau, ji.~ jrforgau. . ij ri'.AAi {v. V>aimate Sub-Uuion, at AVaimatc):—it. Houston, Xi. J*rant, W. opiiiane, \V. JJaveyj H. Mayo, ,1. Kane, jVI. Darcy (captain), J.'. JirodncK, .A. Ker, U. Kesixing, ii. Robertson, A. \V. Siftith, \v. Uulton, J.Ditagerald, E. J. Smith. Extra mail, 51. Houlihan. Reserves— \V. Mabcii, C. iL. AlasUn, (*. Jackson, T. Gliddon. Both teams will* travel by the .first expirees, and return by tlio lato train. l A practice; of-A and B teams , will bo held in .tlio training room at tjic Stono Stables oil Tuesday night. ..

DEFEAT OF AUCKLAND, j - Per Press Association. - NEW PLYMOUTH, Sept. 2. The finest football struggle seen hero this year and ono of the finest/games yet played between Auckland and Tar-: anaki Tugby teams was played on tho. ltecrcation .Ground this afternoon "in the - presence four ithousand . spectators. A strong southerly wind had -? L tlried the ground which; the .previous; day ■ looked - in '- almost :an i impossible • state ; for play. Each province was. Ie» presentedby its strongest eombiiiiitrou.^ Taranaki won by 6 points (two »j«iconverted- tries, scored by Cameron; _ to--3 (a penalty goal kicked byFrauiis). Tho better team won; : on tho day's play,' Tiiranaki's superiority lying in; the back® division, whilst tho forwards were very evenly matched, the Auckland being superior in-hand-ling 'the. ball. Tho Auckland «acks were very--sound in defence, but the attack was-liot as strong'as their opponents. The local team, although altered in • hut slightly, was almost unrecognisable as tho team : which played Wanganui last week. Had they" 'been ablo to get tho ut>ll; clear from tho gcrum Taranaki i.iiist -have won by more. Cameron's 1 lit try wai tho- culminating . point of a movement-initiated in his own '.3 b.v Mynott, most of the backs hantlng the ball -and. a splen.li.Uy si > run beiufc made by Stoper, C. Shcalian and the scorer. The points'.were . even at half-time. In the second half;Cameron's score a*?ain emanated from,Mynott, who had a chance «to score .near tho po6t» ,but unselfishly sent the ball out to -Shealmh /and ■ Cameron. The kicking on the whole -was poor.- ,Q'Sullivan, of the Taranaki team, formerly of the' All Blacks',combinatiqp.' strain-,: ed ,liims£lf severely end is .unlikely to 7 , tako the field again. - J