NEW ZEALAND FOOTBALLERS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1650, 17 January 1906, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND FOOTBALLERS.

THE MATOH AGAINST OHESPE Bjr fcl»graj>h a Fresa A's*'n t Copyrl&h Recoiyad 6.55 p.m , JaD. 16. Sydney, Jan. 16. The Dally Mail says: -Lauoashir Rugbyites, through their own laok o enterprise, were left out of the Now Zea land tour. It was not, therefore 1 , to bi wondered tbat they streamed across thi Mersey to see the colonials play Chester Both in the serum and out of it the A 1 Black pieoes fitted together in all theii varying combinations with the harmonioui precision of a kaleidosoope. The game Wail not going loDg before, at the end of a forward rush over the line, Nicholson and O’Sullivan threw themselves on the bell so closely together, that no one, not oven themselves, oould possibly te'l whioh got the try. When the New Zealand backs got to work in their own sweet inimitable way, Roberts on the base of the scrum always starting the movement with his ligbtaiog pick up, tries came qhickly. With the exception of a goal tbat Tyler kicked from just under the poets, the other plaoee were at acute angles, and Gillett, Who essayed three, and Thompson, who tried others, were perhaps scarcely to blame for missing. Moreover, the bat! Was wet. Notwithstanding there has lately been a falling off in the —visitors’ p'ace-kiokiug. Play in the seoond ball, was not so attractive from a spec‘atore’ point of view. New Zealand was apparently surfeited with ancoess, and seethed to.grow oareless. Their passing was not nearly so neat and oleaD, while at J times bad fumbling and oritioal moments spoiled openings, but ihe score kept mounting. D.ans at least was at his best. While going full tilt he pioked up, forged through half a dozen opponents and scored, while Roberts wound up the spell with one of the most magnificent tries that oopld possibly be imaged. He out in like a streak of greased lightning round the side of the scrum, past the Cheshire halves, whom bis feint had taken off their guard. So on past the inside three-quart O s in a flash, and there was ao one save the startled, hurring full back between him and Ihe line. Swerving past the last obstacle as though it were stationary he ran right rouQd behind the posts, A paragraph In the ■ Daily Mail states : The New Zealanders repudiate the suggestion that there is any difficulty as far as they’ are dOnoerued about the referee for the Welsh matob. ‘ They ’submitted four names to tho Welsh Uoion ; Colts, seoreta’y “of the English Union ; Nioholls, Leicester; Piodly, Cambridge University ; Welsh, Scotland. It is understood that Welsh has now been agreed upon by both parties.