FOOTBALL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7952, 30 January 1906, Page 6

FOOTBALL.

THE NEW ZEALAND TEAM

THE NEWPORT MATCH.

By Telegraph—.tress Association.

Received January 29, 5.9 p.m. SYDNEY, January 29,

Commenting on the New ZealandNewport match, the Daily Mail says: —"Either the 'All-blacks' are meeting foemen inSouth Wales far more worthy of their steel than they met elsewhere, ur else the strain of their tiemendous tour ia beginning to tell the inevitable tale. They were hard put to it at Newpprt. The visitors left' by far the hardest and most difficult part-of their task to the end of the tour. Its asking too muoh of even bo wonderful a football phalanx as they undoubtedly are, that after a protracted and exhausting experience of hard fought encounters they should retain all their pristine freshness. There was little to choose between the teams, Newport, so far as the actual balance of play went might have won just as well as; the New Zealanders. For the first twenty minutes of the opening half the visitors had the game pretty much their own way. After two fine efforts to score Roberts set the other wing in motion. The ball came from Stead to Deans to Harper. The latter swerved most artistically round Griffiths, and scored the first and only try of the game. Harper .failed to convert. A lew minute after Wallace dropped a magnificent penalty goal from nearly half-way. It seemed as if the colonials were contented with this advan - tage, and were seldom dangerous afterwards. In proportion, as they fell off, Newport improved, and in the second-half the Usksiders were in their opponents' territory most of the time, and the colonials were fortunate in possessing a lead of six points. Wallace's coolness and splendid kicking saved his side from disaster more than once. He, 1 Roberts, Seeling, Tyler and Mynott, played a great defensive game."