FOOTBALL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3770, 3 September 1907, Page 3

FOOTBALL.

Wanganui v. Manawatu. 66 to 0. The following represented Manawatu in their match against Wanganui on Saturday: Full, Hughes'; Ya , Williamson, Downes, and Matis; ys, C. McLean and Anslow; F, Onglej 7 ; forwards, Puki, Reid, Whisker, Ryan, Mathieson, Morris, Shadbolt, Torstonsen.

The ground was in good order, but the ball was greasy. As expected, the Wanganui team scored whenever they wanted to, and at the end of the game bad piled up the record score of 66 points to nil. The following were try getters : Suiter (4), Absolum (3], Abbott (3), Daley (2), and Guscott, Anderson, Mitchell, Carroll, and Southcombe one each. Southcombe kicked a penalty goal. Six of the tries were converted, five by Southcombe and one by Absolum. Mr G. Simpson, of Wanganui, refereed.

Auother All Black has said farewell to "the game ; O’Sullivan has decided not to play again. For the last few years one of the colony’s best forwards and most popular players, ‘‘Jimmy ” O’Suljlivanhas at the same time been one iof the most unfortunate. He was /first to be seriously hurt at Home and the dark pall of "bad hick seems to have hovered about him ever since. He has struggled through the last two seasons with a very bad knee, and it was only his great heart that kept him going. It was in representative football that O’Sullivan was seen to the greatest advantage —when he knew that he had forwards with him that could be depended upon. One of the best judges of the game has expressed the opinion that O’Sullivan's brains were equal to half the forwards. Many of the best tries scored by the All Blacks at Home, especially in the tougher matches, were the result of his great head work. His retirement, it might be added, has been hastened by a nasty injury received in Australia during the recent tour. Like many other fine players who cannot leave the game off easily, he may be seen out ajgain, but the information that he will never again don the jersey is from a reliable source. O’Sullivan’s retirement will be a great blow to the Okaiawa Club, for which he fought and turned the tide of many a battle.—Taranaki News.