FOOTBALL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7943, 18 January 1906, Page 6

FOOTBALL.

NEW ZEALAND TEAM. PKESS COMMENTS. SYDNEY, January 17. The Daily Mail, commenting on the match between the New Zealand footballers and Yorkshire, says there was a fine sporting crowd present, as the volume of cheering which greeted the constant flashes of "AllBlack" brilliancy testified. The game was very fast, the Yorksh'.remen being run off their feet, and the visiters carried scrum after scrum. The "Tykes" in the first half were i'airly flabbergasted at the extraordinary speed oi their opponents, lu the second half the home team set to work with the energy born of despair, and for fully a quarter of an hour had as much of the game as the visitors' forwards. They devoted themselves to loose rashes, and raised the hopes of the crowd to shrieking-point by invading New Zealand territory. Then a fine back defence revealed itself, and quick as thought the defence was converted into an attack. The force of the Yorkshire explosion having spent itself, the New Zealanders proceeded to score. Mynott and Hunter spoiled two beautiful openings by forward passes. After this/scoring proceeded in irresistible fashion. Mr Kilner, President of the Yorkshire Union, stated: visitors are the fastest and cleverest lot of individual collectivists—if I may use the term—l have ever seen on the football field.'?