RETURN MATCH WITH WFLLINGTON. ENGLISHMEN VICTORIOUS.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 265, 19 May 1888, Page 5

RETURN MATCH WITH WFLLINGTON. ENGLISHMEN VICTORIOUS.

Wi iT.iNt.TON, May VI. Tin, second jramc >\ith the Enu-l^hmeu wit. played this afternoon. The Wellington team, as telegiaphed, \va* not selected by the Union, and consequently the bnlanc c of pioeeeds abo\e expenses will be dhided between the City Council, who control the . Basin Rcsene, and (ho Hospital. Tliei 0 j wcic bet i\ ecu two and thiee thousand spectator, the small number being due to the fact that a "outhcily dii//le fell all day so dent-fly us almost to be a fog. The gia^ was e\i cmel\ wet, but the gioumiicmained firm andeincath. The Kngli-hmen changed their iullbaclc, puttinu Paul forwaul, and Huinetb in his place Tbut attei the fii.-t tiy the founer A\a> fent to hit- old {lo^ition. HiooL* made his tiist appeaianeo in the colons , placing outride the scuimtuajre. The Welhn;jto;i team, ulio uoic led and blacU, '.\eie oon-ulcied neaily a> jiood aSatutda\ s, .M.d a- it tt.u- knoxvti a ut_t ball wo.dd ciij.[>le tlie Enirl^h pi->-in^, a e!o*e (..inie \\a? anlieipated, and s-o to doubt, it would have been but foramo-t unfoi tmutte mi-hap. The I<xml team snept the t<hanj;eis. befoio them at the s>tavt. and -ecu red a ti> in le^ than ten minute^. l>nbblin<; jiat-inji on the damp jiiound -howed up a weak in the Kuixh^hnKn, who weio all at ?ca befoie the ra})id following and line diibhling of tluni: opponents.

nnvr >■ . m« Aftei the Kick-out, the ball \»a- at once s-oiit back to the English goal, and ;i hatd kick landed it in. SpLakman'- Land-. W hatniun, a tine foiwaul horn Waiiaiapa, and one of the bo-t in the colony, i ut-hed at him. but ypeakm.m stooped betoio the chaise, and Whatman, falling head Uma o\ei the Kuncorn pla\er, snapped hi- 101 l leg abo\e the ankle. >*>i p"-- ible blame hj- aitrilnuable to the Enirli-huvn, and rone nioie deeply re<rict this accident, c?pccta'l\ alter the rather unfair in which tiny had been made ies.ponsible for tho whole of Satnulay's loujrh pla\. Ur. (billon -et the injured limb on the' fc.pot. a-ul Whatman was earned oft the on a gate, and taken to the Ilc^p tal. The haotare ua- a clean one. and will heal ieadil\. Aftci Inloss, the Englishmen had the ad\autagc for awhile, and kept up a .-eiie^ of as»< ultou the Wellington line. Kc-i>tance wactout, and some exciting play was wit nessed befoie the determined n^he- and the rapid following of the icd:> tian^fentd the scene up the giound. Ane-ther mi-fei tune lieie befel them, Thom-on lunitu: !)i= \ shoulder hint. i

si » .>\n -i 1 1 1 . At theinteiwd Thoni-(-n l^k the giound, and then it was onh n i]uc-:tion of how much England uoulcl \rin h\ Wellington playing Ihiiteen men against tifttcn. Nothing but defeat cor. ld be expected, but no one was prepated foi the sp'endid defence and determined play exhibited by Wellington. The collating wa- pciect, and time after time Sim '• biou^lit dow n the houi-e " by the accmate vva\ in which lie ilooied Jlaslam andAndeiton v. hen on the c\e of scoring. This placet u,i- considered the weak *pot of Saturday's tc.un, and wa> di-plaeed at the last monunt in fuotu- ot Wai brick. \Vhatc\ei ir.a> hiwc bten the | leason for the action ot the Committee, his | ]>lay to-day was of the tme^L description, and, since the day* of 13 l addon, no bcttci lias been seen. Still the poueiful attack j of the red, white, and blue was bound to tell its tale in the end. With onl> two threefjuai tei - a (jap wa- left tlnough which the aethe Enoh-hmcn pouied again and again, and at length fiom the throw-out Eagles scrambled ovei the line, up-cUing the coiner flag a- lie did c o. Aftu a little he-itation, the ufciee aw aided a try, but no goal wa- kicked. Di:~ati-ticd with one pooi tij a^ the u.-ult ot 20 minuces" f>lav, the -\i->toi^ tlnew all their eijer^-v into tiie mcitcli, anJ allowed ir.oie of ' their tiue four. So eager wne they, that they constantly 10-t rr'ound liy of!-bide play | and throwing in, and it war- leally owing to j ap!a>erbeing otl-=-ide that they at lengih topped the -coie. Fail bi other mulled the ballinfiont of the goal, and En^le-, who was \aid- in fiont of the man who kicked it, being thus placed on side by accident, made good u-3 of the opening. E\en then Faiibiothcr could ha\e easily f-a\ed the game by kicking the ball to the boundary a feu )aids awa^, but he hied to touch the slippery ball down, missed it, and Eagles easily secured it. The tiy was between the po"t», and l'aul kicked the goal, making the scoic four to one. After this nothing iurthtr wa^ recorded. N<> wa^'s di^heaitened, the Wellington team, though cleail} oseim-xtuhed and [)ie^-ed ) soiely by the Engli-,hn,en. kept up their defence w ondeifidh, and not only preyented their opponents getting thiough them again, bul more than once buist into the Englhh 25. Once a beautiful chaige canied them pafsfc e\cr>ono but the full back ; Paul, u&ually very accurate, failed to get the ball, bus kept cool, and with an expiring eflbit managed to direct the baH into touch near hus own cornci flag. The game ended in a victory for the sUitoio by a goal and try to a try, the lattci obtained by Ellison ; bub all ay ho witnc— cd the game felt that it wa» a nominal uctory only, and but for the handicap of losing two men, the tables would ha\e been turned. The game "was much moic interesting than Saturday's, being of a moie open chaiacter, and fieo iiom the con=fcmt appeals and delays that clmiactcri-ed the first match. The Englishmen played a hauler game, and lasted better than before, but their passing was crippled by the state ot the ground. Their forward play was not equal to their opponents', avlioso loo3e rushes and diibblmg carried all before them till their ranks were thinned ; bub the fcplendid running of Haslam, Speakman, and Anderton was a consjneuous feature of the game. The collating on both sides was of the liue&t description, Sim standing outin bold relief from beginning to end of the game. Moore, Roberts, and Gage also played capitally for their side. The Englishmen leave to-morxow for NNcrw r Plymouth.