FOOTBALL.

Evening Star, Issue 12743, 17 August 1907, Page 6

FOOTBALL.

REI'URNED OTAGO PLATERS. M.'Done.ld, GVey, Eckhold, and Patou, four of the Otago members of the New Zeeland teem, returned hetno last night. In a chat with A lick M’Denald this morning, 're said t...T the learn never played up tc their fpna Even in tho match agairad j Aurt-ralin, rrhich they von by 26 i>oinls tc 0. the team cave nothing like their be-' display. Inlhion/a, he added, got into then j camp, and never left, them As for himself, i ter tha last two weeks lie hardly ever lefr I li s hotel. Ho is still fullering from a ! knock over the kidneys, and is not anxious j I' -1 play again. lie hoi>cs, however, to be ] able to have a go against Aiukland. Mi;cT.ir.coa, ho said, was one of their very best backs. Fryer got the charu'o, and did well. Eokbokl’ts play astonished most of r.licm. He showed foot, and had hard Im-k in not getting a chance in iho test matches. Pa.tem had influenza n:ost of the time, oihorvn&o ho would lia\ra been played in ir.oro matches. “Wo were treated well,” ho concluded, “ but the illness among the torn wiiH a gieat drawback to us, both on and off tho field.” Booth and O’Sullivan loft for Melbourne to spend a week's holiday there. Johnston, remained behind in Sydney. Colin Crilray arrived in Sydney* while they wc-ic there, but left before tho match o:i (ho Saturday afternoon. “ And it was

just as Wall, loo.” added M‘Donald. OTAGO v. COMBINED COUNTRY TEAM: At half-time the (scores were: Country ... 8 points. Otago ... „ ... nil.