LEAGUE FOOTBALL.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 17 December 1926, Page 3

LEAGUE FOOTBALL.

(Per Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, December 15. Yorkshire beat the New Zealand League team by 17 to 16. The match was. played at Huddersfield. Weakness of goal kicking lest the visitors the game, especially in the second half, when otherwise their play vastly improved. Yorkshire went off at a great pace, and speedily scored. Horton secured a try which Osborne converted. The be’.i Zealanders rallied. Mason scored, but Dufty failed tc convert. Yorkshire were leading at the interval 15 to 3. Yorkshire opened the scoring after the interval, Osborne goaling a nemiltv kick. After that the New Zealanders delighted the assembly of 3000 with brilliant running and passing. Th< forwards began getting the ba I in fir scrums, enabling Hall and Deleters'-' to show their true form, and led tl’< Yorkshire halves. Parkin and Todd, a merry dance. The Yorkshire forwards entirely faded to hokl the opposing pack, and Brown. Davidson and Pei ring scored, Dufty converting twice

Twice the visitors deserved additional tries in the closing stages, but Osborne repeatedly saved th 0 home side, his display overshadowing Dufty’s. The New Zealand three-quarters were magnificent, Brown and Davidson making thrilling runs. Sanders tackled most effectively. Mason and Avery were the. pick of the forwards.

Altogether Yorkshire scored three, tries and four goals and New Zealand four tries and two goals. I he New Zealand team were:—Duftv Brown, Davidson, Brisbane, Sanders’ Menzies, Herring’ Ihomas, Parkes, Mason and Avery. DON DON, Decemie. 15. Gardiner lias been suspended bv the League, for three matches for the St. Heieir S offence when he struck the’ 'ton-r-'h jttcfgo'. The Rugby League Council is not arranging matches for the New Zealanders in Paris, London, Belfast or South Wales, owing to injuries and illness of some of the visitors. Trouble has again broken out in the New Zealand League team, owing to the reappearance of Mr Mair upon the selection committee. Five forwards refused to turn out against Yorkshire, and substitutes took the field. The “Daily Mail’’ states That. Carroll, Devine, Petersen, Single, and Henry refused to play against the Yorkshire League team, leaving, owing to injuries, only fifteen men from whom to choose the team.