LEAGUE & LEAGUERS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1858, 18 September 1913, Page 9

LEAGUE & LEAGUERS.

ASSEMBLING TO MEET BLUES,

The Auckland contingent of tho New Zealand team that is to nieet tho brilliant New South. Welshmen arrived in Wellington yesterday (under tho managership of Messrs. Carton and Usslicr). Tire whole team will bo assembled hero this morning, when strict training will be the order of tho day. • Tho offioial note states that such backs as Bradley, lfworson, Kelly, and others, supported by dashing forwards of the King and Walter type, should show our visitors that they are not on a purely pleasure tour. THE BLUES AT NAPIER. (By Msffraph—l'reaa Association.) Naplor, September 17. A League football match was played to-day between 1 New South Wales and Hawke's Bay, in the presonco of 4000 spectators. Until tho latter half of tho secondi speUJ tiro game was very one-sided, New South Wales running up- 28 points before Hawke's Bay scored their first try. Then tho local men livened up a bit, and tho game ended New South Wales, 81 points; Hawke's Bay, 10 ipoints. Tries were scored for Now. South Wales by Thompson (3), ■ Cubitt (2), Algie, and Ourran. Cubitt qonvertedi Ithroo and) Foord two.. For Hawke's Bay Johnson and Carrington scored tries, Duvall converting' one, and M'Carthy the other, and Duvall kicked a goal from a free-kick. BLUES HERETO-DAY. The members of tko New South Wales League football team, who played at Napier yesterday, will return to AVellington this evening. Tho party went, to Hawke's Bay via the Rimutaka InI oline, and will come back by the Manawatu route. Nine members of the team remained in Wellington to train for Saturday's match against New. Zealand. Tho team will stay at the Empire Hotel.