FOOTBAĹ.
NEW ZEALAND TEAM.
Pag Pratst Asm's, CoSy-tigM Sydney, Jnly 10. The Herald, commenting on tho lootball match, says the visitors simply ran over the locals, but it slruok many of thoss who remembered the las 6 Now Zealand team that tha forwards woro not np to the standard then attained. There were nono of those overwhelming, mag nificent forward rushes which oarriod everything before them, nor was tboro the combination, perhaps, of the same brillianoy. Probably nest Saturday, when they have got rid of the effeots of the sea voyage, they will have shaken themsolves better together. , Tho Daily Telegraph say 3it is many , years since New Zealand has shown to so , little advantage here. Tho soa trip cannot £ be accepted as a complete excuse. Their c condition was good enough. Where they j failed comparatively was in the forwards, j. who were often lacking that astnto foresight which has always characterised New v Zealanders. Time after time the forwards blundered in a manner quite foreign to £ (he traditions of Now Zealand football, j
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1503, 11 July 1905, Page 3
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