FOOTBALL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 96, 1 August 1910, Page 8

FOOTBALL.

iiliJIAiN iiEATS NEW ZEALAND. TILE NORTHERN UNION GAME. By Telegraph. —Press Association. Auckland, Saturday Night. Hie Northern Union -game between the Briush ami New Zealand teams was j>..i ,ed to-day in the presence of lull}* io,0()0 persons. The Uay was beautil'u.ly line. The game was won by the Britishers by 52 points to 20, the points being scored in exactly opposite conditions to those of last week. In the first spell, the Britishers' play was very poor in all departments except tackling. This was necessarily good to prevent the New Zealand team piling up too large a score. The, second sped! saw the splendid combination of the visitors brought into action, and points were scored at the rate of one a minute. . . Tries were scored for the Britishers by Leythan 2, Avery 3, Smith 2, Kershaw 2, B. Jenkins 2, Lomas and Thomas. Lomas converted 5 tries and kickedi a penalty goal. Sharrocks potted a goal, and Thomas converted a try. For New Zealand, Buckland, McDonald, Seager and Hughes scored tries, while Jackson converted three of three attempts, and also kicked a penalty goal. In reckoning the scores, it must be noticed that a uoal of any sort only counts two points. MAORIS BEAT AUCKLAND. A BRILLIANT GAME. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. The Rugby Union game between Auckland representatives and the New Zealand native team was won by the latter by 8 points to 0, after one of the most brilliant games seen here. Auckland led by 6 points (tries scored by Annstrong and Mackenzie) to nil at the end of the first spell. In the second spell Kaipara scored for the Natives after one of the most brilliant pieces of pJ'ay ever seen here. He was assisted by Nuiku. Cunningham converted the try. Hall also scored a try. The attendance was about 2000. WELLINGTON GAMES. Wellington, Last Night. There was splendid' weather yesterday afternoon and the various outdoor games were well attended. Senior football matches resulted: — Poneke beat St. James by 9 points to 6. Oriental beat Athletic by 19 points to 5. : Hutt beat Melrose by 7 points to nil. Petone beat Old Boys by 8 points to 3. Wellington beat Southern by 3 points to nil; (SATURDAY COMPETITION. WAREHOUSES (17) v. SERVICE (3). The above match was played on the Racecourse on Saturday before a failnumber of spectators. The scores do not indicate the difference between the teams, as Service were very aggressive, but lost several splendid chances of scoring through one of their backs trying to beat too many men instead of passing. Both tea-ms played one man sliort, and also played substitutes.

From the kick-off Warehouses took play into Service territory, out good line ikicking drove them back. From a scrum about half-way, G. Loveridge set his backs going and a good passing rush ensued, Callender being brought down close to the line. The yellow forwards l broke away from the line-out, and despite several desperate attempts by the Blues to stop them, took the ball right down to the line, where Boucher fell on it. Hawkins failed with the kick. Service rushed the ball into the yellows' twenty-five, and had several chances scoring, but bad passing spoilt them. The yellow forwards again broke away, and repeated their previous performance, Hagenson scoring between the posts. Johns made a poor attempt to convert. The Blues now took a hand in the attack, and opened the game up, some nice passing among the backs gaining a lot of ground. From a scrum in the yellows'' twenty-five G. Loveridge secured and sent tihe ball out to Copes take, who scored near the corner. Honeyfield's kick went wide. The Blues, who were hooking the ball, kept up the attack, but Pfankuch. kept trying to beat too many men and threw away some splendid chances by not passing out. Just before half time Blues were penalised, and Hawkins kicked a good goal. The first spell ended with seore 9 points to 3 in Warehouse's favour.

On resuming, the Blues attacked strongly, their backs playing well. They should have scored several times, but Pfankudh, still kept trying lone-hanaers and would not pass out till too late to be of any use. From a scrum on Yellows' line G. Loveridge secured, and beating two of the Yellows' backs, dived over, but the try was disallowed. Good play by Yellows' forwards shifted play into Blues' twenty-five, anil from a penalty Hawkins kicked a splendid goal. Blues again attacked, but good defence kept them out. From a penalty G. Loveridge made a good attempt at goal from half way, the ball falling a little short-. The play was now ot a very serambly nature, both teams developing a "tired" feeling. A good rush by the Yellows' forward's ended ill Johnson scoring a good try between the posts. McAlluin converted. For the last few m mutes of the game play became very willing and fast, but there was no further score. Mr. West was referee.