FOOTBALL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13998, 6 September 1909, Page 5

FOOTBALL.

KANGAROOS V. WALLABIES. > / ' !Pr ss Ainciation-lVv Telegrnph-Copviight .1* ..SYDNEY, Sept.' o. Twenty* Ntli'ousaiia prisons weic pro- \ sent at Hie football nuUh K'mgatoos , "" v Wallabies. The ( mate h was last, - and closely contested thioughout. Tlio v ,§ Wallabies appealed to be Occasionally ,*£ at fault in line r points. ol ihp League '* J* game. ' Tho seoie was Kangatoos 2&, * Wallabie* L'O. ' ~ ? WELLINGTON V? AUCKLAND. -! i , Per Press Association. ' v i , _ Sept. 4.' % ' An association JootbiUl nmu.ii lur r > ot the lirown SliieJd, be- ' U i\\eeu Auckland atfd Wellington, was *f\-t plu>edj here > etiterd.iy,, and was- won _* by Wellington by?one jjwil t«> nil. '" About SUOi) per&mu Witnessed tho .'"/. match. >The weuthei Was 1 hnc und tlito V ground in good'order. v '' v >s . , ' ' "'P WELLINGTON v. CANTERBURY: it ' - 31 CHKISTCHURCHi *. ' « The annual football nl.ttoii ( between ffy representatives _-oi Canterbury < Urid """a Wellington took" place 'on ' Laiicdttcr, % Park this afternoon, in the pi esence'oft ,'.% a large crrttod of speetatWrk, tho* gatlv' 'f money amounting, to £'24B 9s.' The >\tj ;roimd, tlfolißli "lightly heavv, as ari- **. suit ot recent rainte. nas-fu very fail-0 V<j older. Tlib gaihc, as plrtyed by thA fals . Wellington teahi \\m very fast add y yf attractive oiie, Init the honie teftni's display w v as very game opened* in h' manner that jm*ii';'w ised' a -win for A' JflnWrfc w ! »fc§; opening Ny Burns eimbled Westoif' to_',{*! score: before tho 'game had been r £onig Aft five minutes, but wico 'Aid Wellington 'lh team seWled flown >'ii/as they were Mi& Tin's was partictilaily, s*o with' ,J for» v fffi wards,„who all through sho>ved' more «Vh. nn'd skill than tlftjir<ft>flottM« ents. This gave tbe Wellington home ooeninsis of which, they tnri«e\jsMs good use. With their forw aWs, beaten \tm the Canterbury backs FX>fc v£ry feV.YtS chances in attack, and iljfeir tion was not >\hat it should hav* Meen.n'.« Wellington won by 11 to 6. l( '*s}§& INTER-VARSITY MATCtf. ,>S| DUNEDIN, ftettt/,4. K ste A football match Sydney v. New Zealand was played' tS|| on the Caledonian Ground to-day "irt^j snlendid weather. r The ground was *yM somewhat heavy after recentVraiiib. <3i The game, taken as a whole, was utterosting and except in the. latter ,v c l half ot the secomT si*ll tjjiero wis /Jft. nothing to arouse enthusiasm on tile t,,s oart of tho spectators. The standard \ ** .'■f football was disamminting «nd tllo -ft game was chiefly confined to thtt for- > „ i wards, in which Sydney 'Am anpeured to better advantage. TnqJiM New Zealand team looked and though, the Klaeks got several v poitnnities their passing wa» erratic,W|| >nd htMe headw ay made. rn»=uUetl in a win for Sydnev by 1/> T J|ffl points to *5. . For, the winners were v scored l»v Pocklev, PiHier! Jjnnfi, the last one being . while' Fisher also potted a "oal. New Zealand score was, obtained W "1 T)an«ev. Onatlev had beateh t«» opposition. Dansey also converged'lna "t