Each side, after three stragglers} kad arrived, fielded 18 men on Saturday. Ton minutes after commencement Whites got away with a forward-rush into Colours' 25. Pressure was relieved by a good touch-kick from L. H. Thorn. "A penalty was awarded Whites, but their kick at goal failed. Half-time arrived with no score.
In the second half Caldwell scored for Whites and Kent converted, while Thorn wae successful with a penalty kick for Colours, Final scores were:
Whites—(1 goal)-—5 points, Colours—(1 penalty goal) & points, The Interport Trial This game, Colours v, Whites, was played with the object of assisting] tthe selection committee in picking a representative team to play in Japan For Whites Campbell and Thomson scored in the first half, but none of the tries was converted. Colours failed to score. Half tim Whites, 12 points, Colours. Nit A few changes were then made in the teams. Nei] went over to Colours and Parsons to Whites. Campbell of Whites was changed over to stand-off for Colours in place Storrs, who took his position at "three" in Whites. Nicholl scored penalty goal for Colours, and a try by Hutchison was converted by Nicholl. Mann and Milligan scored) tries for Whites. Whites' success was tainly due to the good serumming and heeling of their pack, which gave their "threes" intumerable chances of "doing their stuff Stewart ably led his pack both by example and command. Of the "threes" and other "backs" Evans showed up well.
For Colours, Dunkley, Watkinson and Samson did useful work among] the forwards, The heeling of this pack was poor, almost every time possession' of' the ball was obtained, it got held in the middle rank, and as a consequence of the resulting muddle, the pack were pushed off it by a slightly heavier opposition. In both halves. Neill played a fine game at scrum-half.
Final scores were:—
1 goal) 25 pons, Pently Whites. (6 trios, 1 penalty goat, Eoloars. (2 penalty goal, 1 goal.) 8
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