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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 911, 22 August 1907, Page 13

The last rep. match before the Southern tour eventuated on Saturday, when the Goldfields got a tremendous licking from the weakest Auckland representative fifteen that has taken the field for many a long day. An uninteresting game resulted: Auckland, 32; Goldfields, 5.

Hall was in great kicking form in Saturday’s match, and landed the ball over the cross-bar five times. He is a rattling good kick with either foot, and one of his best efforts was a leftfooter from a difficult angle. Hall also managed to notch a good try.

Joe Twiname was in scoring humour on Saturday, crediting himself with three tries against Goldfields; an unlucky pass robbed him of a sure fourth. McDonald, McCormick, and Williams each notched a try, while Bater and Stuckey were instrumental on more than one occasion in making the said tries easy of accomplishment.

Young scored the one and only try placed to Goldfields’ credit, and Dufty converted with a kick that was worthy of his old-time reputation. It was Dufty’s only success, however, and his “boosting” was but a shadow of the glorious past.

The Auckland junior reps, got rather a bad shaking up on the trip down to New Plymouth. In fact, a message came through on Friday morning from one of the members that “ half his corporation” had been lost.

Notwithstanding the ill-effects of mal-de-mer, the Auckland boys held their own in the match against the Taranaki junior reps., and though the game was closely contested, the visitors came off victorious by 8 points to nil.

Sprague was responsible for both tries awarded the Auckland juniors. The second was secured under unique circumstances. Sprague and a couple of other Aucklanders followed the ball over the line, and a certain try was on the tapis when a Taranaki man up-ended Sprague. The referee at once awarded a try for obstruction. Magee managed to put the ball over the cross j bar. The second spell was scoreless.

The fourth grade championship was decided on Saturday last, when Ponsonby met and defeated Newton by three points to nil. The game was most keenly contested, and the laurels of victory were only secured by the blue-and-black fifteen as the result of a cleverly-kicked penalty goal by C. Webb.