FOOTBALL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 July 1910, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

• — N.S.W. v. QUEENSLAND. [Br ELKOTRIO TELEGRAPH-COPTUIGHT.] H'KR PHEBB ABBOCUTION.] BRISBANE, July 17. Now South Wales Rugby Union representatives defeated Quoon/shiml by "21 points to nil. MAOJMS DEFEAT OTAGO. [PEK PUKSS WBOCIiTION.] DUNEDIN, July 17. Kive thousand persons witnessed this match on Saturday, when tilt Maoris del'oat eel the Otago representatives by 17 <i>;;<iiit.s to 8. The visitors gave a .splendid exhibition oi last and. clean football. Their bach ])lay was of very resourceful ami dashing nature. Otago's onlj strength was in tho forwards, tht backs being lamentably weak. AMERICANS v. WELLINGTON. WELLINGTON, July 17. The American Universities Rugbj fifteen met a strong Wellington representative team in tho first mate! of the New Zealand tour, being beaten by 22 to nil. The visitors die not. as yet play a go«d Rugby "-.ame 'hut are evidently keen ito leani, am are most certainly good sportsmen. WANGANUT v. MANAWATTJ. Manawatu went down to Wanga mii, on Saturday, to the tune of 1( points :to 5. LOCAL FOOTBALL. POSITIONS OF THE TEAMS. Tho following table shows tin position of the teams:— SENIOR. . i u to o re 15 . p $. .2 t >: % s i .3 s .s ins: Q j a. c- a, rr«i Mai 0 8 0 1 119 28 K li.-W. 9 (> 1 2 103 23 1? Shannon 0 2 0 7 12 94 ■! Ivia Toil. 9 1 1 7 15 104 a JUNIOR. .g a . i? ,§ H' is i 's s ?: q & p- Ph Kim-pvii 9 7 1 1 8(j 30 1" li.-AV. B. 8 (> 1 1 70 20 12 Tain ii i 8 (i 2 0 68 38 11 Hiii Mai 9 3 4 2 25 59 S Shannon 9 16 2 25 72 4 L.-AV. A. 9 0 9 0 29 105 C SATURDAY'S GAMES. LKVIX-WANDKRKR (23) v. SHANNON (0). This match was played at Shannon on Saturday. There w«s a good attendance ; the ground was somewhat heavy owing to the recent rains. Mr F. Rout rei'oreed, an-d a.t times the .spectators made hostile deinonstrations against him. This wa.s particularly so in the scooikl half, when Levin were making rings round their opponents. Sl.r Rout's decisions seemed to be perfectly impartial, a.nd from the two statements published below it will be seen tlia.t among those who are best qualified to_ form an opinion ho was strictly tair. Shannon were only able to put a poor team on the field, nlaying no le.ss than seven members of the junior clivb. Tn spite of this they ]>hiyed a most plucky game, and in the first half had the most of the game. Levin-Wanderers nlayerl \\'i,fh fourteen men. .Shannon won the toss and Levin kicked off. They immediately attacked, and a serum took place in the home 20. but Royal got the ball iway in fine style. 4 th.ow-m in t ie home quarters looked ugly for the ye.] aws, but the ball travelled to midfu.ltl, and off-side was <rj ven against. Levin. McLellan took the kick, but nothing resulted. Levin then rushed the leather to the other end, but Grimstone stopped the attack, which wa.s brilliantly curried out by Le-wer. Shannon subsequently returned the compliment and » ■me p.iw resulted from lliiclonan to Koyal. who mulled. The blacks <rm] w;as in considenblo danger Un- .some timo. Miniiiw,,, 1 W( .J M s h o , r i,, K „„ IjrilliJintly Grimstone made a fine mark n.iui the kick was taken l,v l<o.va], hut it woivt into touch. Close wan in evidence shortly afterwards M" kH'kod the bnll ,™U f< )r ward ™d J n.st a.s the blacks wore «.tiin.a (1-aiigeioH.s Thompson secured the leather :uid found .the line. ]'|, P operations wore transferred to m.dfield and somp fiuo p l fly was initiated by Nepin Wmiata. Lnter from he .visitors 2;., Coote made a fine run and sr-ored one of the l,est tries of heg|imo Nepni Wining too k the Kick but it proved fruitless. Pkv subsequently .went to the Levin end «"<!• ;'t tins juneture Shannon vis elioymg itself superior in the rushes. A lot of interesting play occurred I" tho Levin quarters, Shannon beNevii'f <ln , nSerOnß , timo "fter time. Elmo WM P * y,nff a ftame, got possession, and ma de a '■»" »Pfi«ld, bu,t was collared. T),e ball, lifHvovor, travelled to the lmm> end, where Easther and Thorno but off-side gainst tlie hacks resulted hi a free, kick, which wye the yellows another look in, Gnmstone p.cking np from ,the feet of a Levin player. Off-side was assun given against Levin and the J«rk was taken by Royal, Jones foj! owing np >nm l intercepting tho Levin bneks 1 J,« ] ) l acJcs mw h u sert themselves, and N«i>m ww nJominent with a snlendid rush hut was colhu-ed -by Malcolm. Tho visitors hacks worn pnttine in a, lot of fine xrnrk, and when half-time arrive; I Levin was leading by 3 points

On ,the resumption of pky tfi* hlnrks ot once took up the nt-t/wk anrl from a fine rush <bv Xpnia. pot over nn.fl scored +rv > T o. 9,. TTp t".fik the kick himself.flip br>dl strnVTiiirr .<i!, o After some midfifldi plqv, Onntfl ntrniii npmrlv <rof nynr A mVe bw,+ of nnssi.n.o; f>ool to Nepia. to pud i]).i(>k to Ne-pin tl'° liomo defence nn anxious time. A scrum eventuated' on tilie line and.

Shannon forced down. Nothing resulted, and from some play on the half-way line Nepia, Lewer and. Goote 'put in another lino bout of passing and Coote scored. Nepia failed to find tlio upr.ights. A forward rusli by the homo team was stopped by Everett. Nepia shortly afterwards got another try, but Coote's kick proved fruitless, licwer a. little later registered a further try. From a rush by the Levin backs Neville .scored and Xopia converted. The spectator now made a hostile demonstration against the referee, and the Shannon players remained standing on their own goal line. One of their team, however, came forward and kicked off nivcl Levin immediately rushed down, and play again settled in the homo quarters, Thome scoring a try. Xo further score resulted and the game ended as above stated. COMMENTS. One of ,tihe seleetons of the Shannon team talking to a "Chronicle." reporter said:—"We never luave satisfaction here when we have a Levin referee. But Rout seems a square fellow. What is required is that when we play Levin, let us have a Maiiflkau or Otaki referee, and when we play Otaki let us have, a Levin referee. When. Otabi plays Shannon put in a referee from another ipurt of the district. That would settle all tho differences." A prominent player of tho Shannon junior team said that be saw nothing "crook" about the decisions. He had watched the match carefully and he was perfectly satisfied tha.t Mr Rout's decisions were correct. HUT MAI (22) v. KIA TOA (8). This match was played. <at Otaki, an<\ ended in a walk over for Hui Mai by 22 points to 3. Tho gamo was not taken seriously by either teams, Kia Toa apparently beting out solely to give Hui Mai a run. The home team started witto twelve men and worked tin substitutes as thegame proceeded. Hui Mai scored G hies, two of whiieb were converted, and G. Cook scored for Kia Toa. Mr Mcßain refereed. KEREIIU (15) v. SHANNON (0). This match was played at Shannon on Saturday. Owing to tho train being late Mr MeLelland took the whistle for the first half. At half time two Shannon players were standing on the touch line, refusing to play under Mr Me.LollaiKl. The referee arrived at half time, and the game from that period on was played in a good spirit. Rhanno , . , had somewhat the best of the play in the first half, Tmt Kereru put up 0 points. In the second half they added another 9 pointe. HUT MAI v. LEVIN-WANDERER A. The Levin-Wanderer A's wero unable to get a team together to travel to Manakau, Hui Man' tb is winning by default. LEVfN- WANDERER (f,) v . TATNTJT Thesetwo teams met on itho local Recreation Ground, -and after a hard-fought game the borne team won by a margin of 3 points. Play all through was of an even nature, and though a trifle slow in the first spell, became fast and inte.nestiii:g in the fiiKil stages. Rangi scored" a try and Heta kicked a penalty mn\ for the home tcVun, and Ellis scored a trv. wlnich was not impiwerl upon for Tn.inui. Duriiur tbe progress of the ga,me Piiku. of tho Levin team was ordered fl ff the firM for tripniiig, and Woods, of the Taiinui team was F.iinilsvrlv doalt witli for d'ison+inff tilie refwee's decisions. Mr J. Smith roforcerl.