NEW ZEALAND FOOTBALLERS

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1610, 24 November 1905, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND FOOTBALLERS

ANOTHER WIN.

By telegraph. Pres* Aas’n, Copyright London, Nov. 22. New Zealand ... ... 22 West of Scotland 0 Twenty thousand spectators witnessed the matoh against the West of Scotland at Glasgow. The turf was very soft. In the first half the New Zealanders bad the advantage of the wind, and pressed the Homo team from the start, McGregor securing a try within nine minutes. Wallace failed at the shot for goal. The Soots then livoned up, and played brilliantly for 20 minute#, bat failed to score. Smith next got a fine try, fair between the posts, which Wallace converted. The score at .half-time was : New Zealand 8, West of Scotland 0.

The brillianoy of the display of the Some team in the first half was not mainlined in the latter portion of the game, ,ud they were outplayed aDd outpaced by the visitors. Roberts, Smith, Mynott, and Seeling obtained trie3 in quick succession, but only one—that scored by Mynott—was converted by Wallace. The game ended 22 to 0.

The Government message states : 11 New Zealand defeated West of Sootland by 22 points to nil. Foac tries, two goals. MoGregor 2, Smith, Bobert?, Mynott, and Sealing one eaoh. Baining heavy ; ground soft.”

NOTEB BY MAIL,

Writing in the Athletic News, "Old Ebor ’’ congratulates Durham on a plucky Sght, and regarding the New Zealanders nays;—"What 1 did see, however, was a neam of extraordinary nimbleDess, cool* ness, and resource. The men seemed to Hi in perfeot condition. I only noticed 1 one man who was on what X may call the big side ia the physioel sense. This was No. 5 (W. Cunningham), who gave me the appearance of being well lined with prime native * Canterbury.’ The dash and deftness of the whole team is remarkable. They can push without being labored aornmmagers. They oan heel dex&eeously; they piok op iho Dali wrth extraordinary neatness, and pass more awiflly than we do in England, though 1 otill do not think they have the rytbmic awing of a Welsh attack. As to speed, why, every man Beema a sprinter. As a team they will be cheoked in time, but I don’t think many (if any) of onr English aounty aides will overthrow them. 1 should add that they play a pleasant, gentlemanly game, with not the least fuafcioion of shadiness or roughness about .*ii Never in their palmiest days did the Australian cricketers create half the sensation that has been caused by the JMew Zealand footballers. The tour of the footballers through the British Islands is more than a march of triumph; it is a devastation. They have played seven matches against some of the crack counties of England, and bavo won thorn all as easily as John Boberts would beet the Champion marker of a provmcial town. There is no mystery about this wonderful brillianoe of the New Ze si an dere. Efficiency is the sole secret. Individually the men are as good footballers as any that can be found; they have reduced combinations to a soianoe without refining it Into a tangle; and they play with understanding and resource, quite indifferent .0 the hoary and respectable teachings of tradition. That is how the Japanese Seated the hordes of Russia; that is bow the New Zealanders are overwhelming the nicked teams of Great Britain, lhere is ornT gleam of hope,” prooeeds the writer. Within the next five weeks the ooloniala nlav the chosen national tiams of ScotFand, Ireland. England, aod Wales, and it mav be that a victory will at least oonsole “or wounded honour. But it will not diminish the fame of the New Zealanders, *bo in this small matter of football stand to, the growing ability and effectiveness of the colonials.” — Daily Express. According to one of the provincial iournsls, " The Bristol Club has appointed a committee of old pi ay mb to go carefully into the lessons- of the Now Zeslando display, and draw up a report With a view to adopting a new style." ' . “ Xb ia no studied method wbioh explains tho New Zealand prowess. No comparative method, indeed, can ever bo seriously ' « a dged unless the competing teams are approximately of equal individual exse » lenee. It is purely tho personal skill, the crentar psc’, tbo rnoro supreme energy manifvstel by each player which moulds the team to such a wonderful form. We> mav fit'y write of the superiority of their ' meohanical adaptations when the same . Tuerb feinting and dodging, the same Woking under difficulties, the same senee of 'personal * responsibility, the same absorbing keenness; n short, the some exoe leufe, is the individual property of pach member of an English or Welsh fifteen.’’-— Morning Post Correspondent.