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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 16, 20 April 1905, Page 20

The London correspondent of the • Evening Star,' writing on February 16, contributes the following particulars of tjhe international football ma,tch, England v. Ireland, played at Cork :—' Whilst most good judges anticipated Engknld's defeat by Wales at Cardiff, and were not disappointed, most of us certainly entertained the idea that the Rose's Rugby players would be capable of holding their own against the representatives of Ireland at Cork last Saturday. It was, indeed, a very 4 * rude surnrise " whan we learned that our team had gone under to the dflpth of 14 points. To put it mildly, the Irishmen outclassed the English in every department, and the margin oy wnich they won did not in the least , flatter their superiority on the play. The only consolation which supporters of the Rose can find is that England was beaten by one of the finest international fifteens that has ever represented any of the four countries in the British Isles.' The same correspondent, writing on March 3, says :— ' Tbe Welsh Rugby team are apparently not to have matters all their own. way in the international championship. They have beaten England; and Scotland handsomely, but J*a, have the . representatives^! " ojild v Ireland, who followed up tneir crushing, defeat of tbe English , team at _Cork . by winning their „ game against Scotland at Inverleith last Saturday by a goal and three tries to a single try— ll points to 3.'