FOOTBALL

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160726, 12 August 1920, Page 6

FOOTBALL

ALL BLACKS' BIG SCORE. SI POINTS TO 5. SYDNEY, August 11. New Zealand’s final contest against Metropolitan wan a nmaway affair, the visitors winning by 81 points to 5. The local team was without prominent players and as helpless as schoolboys before the Black invasion. Shortly after the commencement Hingst gathered near touch and crossed. Mingay converted. Prom this out New Zealand initiated a succession of passing movements which invariably ended in a score. Ihe locals’ defence was the feeblest imaginable. Tries were scored by the following: Baird and Badeley, three each; Tilyard, Jacobs, Mac Lean and Moffatt, two each; Storey, Wilson, 'Roberts, Duncan and West, one each. Goals: Roberts kicked five, Moffatt two, Baird, Brown, Tilyard, West and Storey one each. New Zealand played seven matches altogether, scoring 266 points against 77 points.. Nine New Zealand teams have visited Australia. They have played 22 matches against New South Wales, and have only lost three and drawn one. Details are: 1884—Won, 11 points to 0. Won, 21 points to 3. Won, 16 points to 0. 1893 —Won, 17 points to 8. Lost, 3 points to 25. Won, 16 points to 0. 1897—Won, 13 points to 8. Lost, 8 points to 22. Wqn, 26 points to 3. 1903—Won, 12 points to 0. Won, 3 points to 0. 1905—Won, 19 points to 0. Drew, 8 points each. 1907—Won, 11 points to 3. Lost, 0 points to 14. 1914—Won, 27 points to 6. Won, 33 points to 10. 1920—Won, 26 points to 15. Won, 14 points to 6. Won, 24 points to 13. THE SOUTH AFRICANS. CAPETOWN, August 11, It is announced that therei is probability of iho Rugby Union accepting the invitation sent by the New Zealand Rugby Union to send a team to New Zealand next year. HAWKE’S BAY 9 Y. TARANAKI 0. HASTINGS, August 11. The weather was raw aud thfe ground rather heavy for tlie Hawke’s BayTaranaki football match, which was a good, open and fast game. Hawke’s Bay had the better forwards and superior combination. The first half was even play, both sides having bad luck. From a passing rush O’Donoghue took 7)ossession of the ball and scored for Hawke’s Bay, Do Castro failing at goal. The spell ended: Hawke’s Bay 3, Taranaki 0. In the second half the Hawke’s Bay forwards bustled the visitors and except ‘for the last ten minutes the ball was in Taranaki territory. From an off-side penalty, O’Donoghue scored for Hawke's Bay, and from a penalty for lying on the ball Kuru placed a neat goal to the credit of the Bay.- Hawke s Bay 9, Taranaki 0. The visitors bucked up the last few minutes and attacked determinedly, but there was no further score. SOUTHLAND 15 Y. CANTERBURY 9. INVERCARGILL, August 11. The rep. match Canterbury f. Southland, played to-day, resulted in a win for the home team by 15 points to 9. The weather was line and there was a large attendance. The ground was heavy. The match was an interesting exhibition. Southland forwards were too heavy visitors, whose good back play saved them on more than one occasion. The local backs were outclassed by the visitors. MANAWATU 23 Y. SOUTH ISLAND 8. PALMERSTON NORTH, August 11. In a representative Rugby match Manawatu defeated South Island country team by 22 points to 8. Play was ragged, confined to the forwards. Manawatu were superior in the forward division. They also used their backs to greater advantage. For South Island O’Brien kicked a penalty goal and Falconer scored. Nelson converting. THE JUNIOR REP. TEAM.. The following Junior Rep. team has been picked to play Collegiate School on Rcc. No. 3 at 2.30 p.m. on.Saturday: Full-back, Deem; three-quarters, Welch, Mullins, Reid; five-eights, Straohan, Harrison; half, Richdale, wing-forward, Perrett; forwards, Small, Armstrong (hookers), Wood, Boulton (lock), Coxon, Bristol and Frewrng. Emergencies.—Backs: Glasgow and Lumsdcn. Forwards: Robinson aud Fleming.

THE LEAGUE GAME. ENGLISHMEN 55 V. WI&P COAST 13. GE.EYMOUTH, August 11. In the presence of fifteen hundred people, the English. League team defeated West Coast reps, by 55, points to 13 after a very one-sided game, ia which the merits of the sides was fairly indicated by the score. A bitterly cold wind blew across the field, which, despite showers earlier, was dry. Pretty passing bouts among the English backs, who scored almost whenever they got the ball, were opened up by Parkin and Thomas. Thomas also helped to open up the game, ' while Davies, Stone, Doyle and Stockwell made a succession of fine runs clean through the Coasters, whose tackling was poor. The Coast forwards shaped belter against the opposition, making occasional loose attacks, but the visitors never were really pressed. The visitors’ .pretty stylo should have an educative effect locally, they keeping the ball in play and passing instead of kicking. The first spell ended; English 32, Coast 3. Eight tries were scored by the English backs, namely, Davies (3), Stone (2), Parkin, Doyle and Stockwell. Four tries were converted by Gronow. For the Coast, Hunter kicked a penalty, and) Hunter got a trv from a loose rush. In the second spell the Englishmen scored seven tries, Stockwell getting throe, Parkin two and Davies and Doyle one each. Wood converted one try'. For the Coast, Hyan and Clarke scored tries, Henderson converting one.