FOOTBALL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1509, 18 July 1905, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

PBESS JUBILATION, By, telegraph,. Press A'ss’n, Copyright Sydney, July 17. The Horald says that after the previous I matches the result of Saturday’s game between New Zealand and New South Wale 3 came as a great surprise. Everyone wsb amazed, nono more than the visitors. Play was never uninteresting, but was frequently brilliant. All agree that it was a very great match. If there was any advantage at all it was with New Zealand, who twice crossed tho homo line, while Now South Wales did not cross at all. The Daily Telegraph states that the re- I

I suits of the games on the previous Saturday and Wednesday very naturally created an impression that only one side was in it, but before the match had been in progress tnanyjninules it was realised that the New South Wales men wore playiDg the game of their lifetime. It was a question whether they would last, but as the match proceeded it was founa !o be no spasmodic effort. In a word, the New South Wales

I forwards, fast, dashiDg and-fearless, played New Zealand at their own game, and beat them at it. It was a triumph. When the New Zealanders scored at the finish, tho New South Wales forwards stood still like graven images, in the traditional exaeper- j ating New South Wales fashion, while Eoberts weaved hi 3 way in and out among them with his backs following at top speed. I It was a brilliant rush, but it was the fault of New South Wales that it sucoeeded so I thoroughly. In the first place, Eoberts I should not have been allowed to make the I opening ho did, and in the second there I should have been no difficulty in blocking McGregor. I (Per Press Association.) I

Dunedin, last night The following players have been selected to represent Otago-and Southland against the New Zealand team on Saturday Full-back, Booth ; three-quarters, Gilray, Bennett, Dobson ; fivereighths, S-ead (Southland), King ; half, Burgess (Southland); forwards, Casey, McNie (South-

land), E. Purdue (Southland), G. Purdue (Southland), Johnstoo, McDonald, Given, Porteous. In the event of any of the above players being required for the- New Zea-

land teem their places will ba filled by Spiesu, Stewart, or Abbott. .