FOOTBALL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 130, 19 October 1912, Page 5

FOOTBALL.

AUSTRALIANS DEFEATED. ' By. Cable—Press Association—Copyright. San Francisco, October 17. Inland-Stanford University defeated the Australians by 13 to 12, after a more scientilic game than the previous one The University attacked well. Jfahey and Richards were .unable to play, and Stanford had some substitutes at first, but later on the whole of the regular team appeared. The Australians' open playing lost them the ball on successive occasions.

They have some good sports in Petone. One iu the person of Mr. A. Coles "came to light" the other night with a cheque for £SO with which to pay off the indebtedness on the club's gymnasium. He said he could not resist giving the reward after the magnificent way in which the whole of the five teams of the club had performed during the season. Current English files have much to say on the South Africa Rugby team, which is now playing in England. The team was selected early in August after a series of 16 trial matches, extending over 10 days at Capetown. Xo expense has been spared by the South African Board to make the team a thoroughly representative one. Players were brought from all over South Africa at an expense estimated at anything from £I2OO to £ISOO. The only members of the team which toured England in 11)00 to gain places in the present team ate Dobbin, the versatile and clever half-back; Markel, the great forward and place kick; and Millar, another forward. The team is said to be a great improvement on the 1909 combination. They are a young, powerful and weighty lot. who have been selected with a*' view to scrum work rather than shining in the open, and yet are all fairly fast. The three-quarter backs are said to be very speedy and big, and to run very hard and fast. Several of them have taken a prominent part in South African athletic championships, and one, .McHardy, ran Patching, the Olympic representative, to a yard in the South African hundred yards championship. The half-backs are regarded as being a sound yet not brilliant lot, but the full-backs are admittedly weak. It will be interesting to see how the team fares against international sides on this tour, and especially against Wales, who were beaten unexpectedly by the last team. In Wales a feeling of pessimism seems to have grown up as to the season's prospects, but the principality generally manages to have excellent players available for the international matches. No one will be surprised to hear that the at Cardiff.

South Africans have met their Waterloo The international aspect of Rugby must force itself into public notice when it is considered that selected representatives of four different .countries will be meeting in the Union code during the next few month?— Australia against America in California and South Africa. against the various parts of the United Kingdom in Great Britain. 'Prance, too. may participate-, in Africans* tour. The.i£u&rijlia>i:;pj!Ogi»mni« also includes matches fin P.rkish Columbia. These interchanges of visits inust in Hhe long run mean w,qw"*o the British peoples than mere rivalry W* sport. - :