QUEENSLAND v. NEW SOUTH WALES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 29, 3 August 1896, Page 2

QUEENSLAND v. NEW SOUTH WALES.

(Per Press Association.) Sydney, August 2. In the return football match between N.S.W. aud Queensland, the visitors wbo, on the last occasion were victorious, were defeated by 15 points to nil. The Queensland footballers leave for Auckland by the Alameda to-morrow. The Taranaki-Nelson football match takes place to-morrow. Tbe following team has been selected to represent Manawatu in the match against Nelson next Saturday, at Palmerston : —Full-back, H. W. Giesen; three quarters, P. Giesen, Hewitt. Keeling ;five eighth, Jack; half, W. Shaunon ; wins, forwards, Stuart, Perrin; forwards, Matravers, Desmond, Matheson, O. Robinson, Rush, Smith, Eyre; emergencies, De Luen, Prendergast, McMinn. The Nelson representative team to play against Manawatu is as follows : — Full-back, Bird or McDonald ; threequarters, Nesbitt, Hall, De Vere ; fiveeighth, G. Higgins ; half, N. Levien ; forwards, L. Sigley. Krahagen (wings), Clear, Hounsell, J. Higgins, Glover, Ecclesfield, and Watson. The Masterton Red Stars are endeavoring to get a team away to play 3larton, Feilding and Palmerston. The Interproviucial match, Southland against Canterbury, was played on Saturday at Christchurch Tlie weather was fine but the ground was rather soft. A good even game, principally confined to the forwards, resulted in a draw. In the first spell Anderson scored a try for Southland, and in the second O'Brien equalised matters by scoring for Canterbury. Neither try was improved on, and the game ended three points all. The football match, Thames v. Auck* land, played on Saturday, resulted in Auckland winning by 17 to 8 points. The Apiti team defeated Colyton, at Cheltenham, on Saturday last, thus winning the Oroua championship cup for the present year. During the football match, Apiti v. Colyton, at Cheltenham on Saturday, Mr E. Blake, one of the Colyton halfbacks, was very badly bitten by a dog. He battled through the remainder ofthe grame, playing full back. His leg was so badly torn that he had to be taken to Dr Maccarthy, who put in four stitches. It is a pity tbe owners of such savage brutes cannot leave them at home. It appears that footballers, these times, have chances enough of getting hurt during the game without spectators bringing dogs to worry them.