THE ALL BLACKS.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 16212, 29 September 1924, Page 5

THE ALL BLACKS.

OVERWHELM SWANSEA.

DO AS THEY LIKE. WIN BY 39 TO 3. (A. and N.Z. Cable.) LONDON, Sept. 28. The All Blacks over-run Swansea today, demoralising the home team after twenty minutes’ play, and thenceforward doing much as they liked and winning by 39 to 3. Thirty thousand spectators warmly welcomed the New Zealanders, whose team comprised:

Fuji-back Nepia ji three - quarters: Steel, Brown, Lufas: five - eighths: Nicholls, Cooke; half: Dailey; wingforward: Porter; forwards: Irvine, Donald, Harvey, C. Brownlie, M. Brownlie, White, West.

x\ttacking from the kick-off the All Blacks ran up 10 to nil in the first spell, a dropped goal by Nicholls, after taking a reverse pass from Brown, and tries by Lucas and Irvine, which Nepia failed to convert. The New Zealanders were too good, both in the backs and forwards, for the local team, and in the second spell, got the ball from almost every scrum, Dailey sending his men away repeatedly, with the result that tries were frequent. Steel, playing his first game, notched three tries, Brown two, M. Brownlie and Cooke one each. Nicholls converted four.

The first score against the All Blacks "was a penalty goal'by Parker, following on Nepia hanging to the ball. The .New Zealand combination has much improved, hut faulty handling and ill-judged kicking is still noticeable, indeed with cleaner work a dozen nujre tries might have been scored.

The result caused a sensation. The Swansea men’s poor showing in all departments, despite a solid week of training, was most disappointing to the Welsh Union officials, who surprised at the New Zealanders’ unexpectedly improved form. The local team were evidently nervous. Their backs’ defensive work was poor, and their tackling bad.