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Footscray's System Prevails.
A iook at the corcs aloire "<.ould not convey
tire merits of the uxtich played at Foofscray. The
game, indeed, wua full of Jntereat uud hrilliancy.
Tlw pace was fiwt; tho ground work good: biirii
marking was almost entirely abireiit, but this wai
more tiiau coiupetiHate<l for by tiic Footscray ay»«
tern on tire forward line, wiffch wus so unerring
an to appear almost uncanny, As soou as tire Lull
was forwarded players spread out, and passing
from man to man ho swiftly and surely would
result iu a Brunswick back often being nonplucrl
ami nt knowing wlitiv to turn. l-'«A>b?uy nicu-
lurthcr, would often pJKs, then dreb forward and
iuteroept the pass again. Thai time and again
Footscray s owned to liave twice as many men
44 Brunswick everywhere. This made l'ooticrav
ap|>ear tlio iater team, and tire u-oiat Brutrevvicfc
drives Horn man to man were increiore not
much in evidence. But sterling play on Foots
cray back line also effccuvely blocked the
usually busy Brunswick lonvurils.
Ojreniug icalurta were a wuart nave Jn the
teeth of goal by hfcvift; and, after clever centre,
play, ,1 good goal by M'Oornuck. . Bruirewick kepL
up the attack, but tills Lime Muciman cleared
nre goal. Quick h a flash the hall was passed
rrom Valentine, . O Bricn, Voieatuie ami Martin,
ami Huhkoii cqualnad tiic- ftcoriu with a goal llm
followed. Brunswick attacked once more, but
only three behuuLs resulted. Already ixjolan,
iSeilson, Muelnuin and il Lniyro wrere playing uu-
uiTing, laiHlung lootbail frciu the back line. Effec
tive Lighfrung bk-uded witii lialf-disunce
oiab kicking 10 the lorwiu-il lines, did the refit lor
Fu>tscniy. Alartin won also much iu evidence Jn
starting I his pretty passing. buch team work
by ilartui, ta-jeson, Kowo anu (Viirion wu.s
slopped fiom full rciULyatiou only by SwitL, again
in tue jiecih ot goal. Alter a term .of eveuiy-
coulestcd cenLre play, liowevcr, Footacray were
put in the lead by a goal Irom O'finen.
Brunswick were Htnsiiig liard, and were playing
A solid game, but tlreftc iightuiug Footscray pome
ofLen iqqx-ired to i>ojulyj them. I'lay remaincJ
id>out tue c-eutn!, wjtii bai:k men on both lOdc
holding tiieir own. kooucray ruck,--TK»wcver,
doiumated. t'Ycquwil ruck diauges uu botli «idct>
kept the game very fast and open, and at quarter
time there-was really nbtimig between tbe teams.
Footscray were tiie tirKt to move aiter the chan
over, however, and ila system appeared at iui
bcsL A behind by llanwn was quickly followed
by goab from O'Donuhue and Hanson. Brunswick
defence work of KaJcigh, bwift, Gnmstcr and
O Oonnur, nevertlicleai, was good, and kept down
further sonnng.
At loftt Suliiran came into his own, and quicktv
.scored two goalu. Thin brought Bruiunvick to
within a pointa of hoobreray's score. But by
shrewd manipulation of ruck men hootocrav
worked Uic bail forward, srul O Dooohuc added
k(i1) another goal. For a while no ucoring took
place, hut tiic pace never slackened, fast, clean
ami open football wuh still tiic order of the dav.
Tnc rucks also were more evcnlv matched. O'Brien
added sixtii goal witii a beautiful , long kick, but
when play wafl tnuvrferred to Brunswick territory
for a while only two behind rtaulAcd.
Play was even after tlie mleril— for a time, hI
least.. FootMTny worked forward,, and ultimately
O'Brien, cleverly beating two op|xreing plavers.
cleanly pusriod to Eunon. who made tlie most of
his opportunity and wreilv . scored seventh goal.
A series of five kicks to Brunswick ended in
vSiilllviii nlcn iirimr -i An» dykiI linnf.vr.ii> limn
once more played a rover on either side of Uu'
nick, and again the move proved ftuccessfui. Dason
again scored. Indeed, at this stage M Oartby
was playing at lib beat m the rack, and togethei
with hi > rovens. Eiison and Martin, ftlarted uiatiy
fonA'ard move that dominated the game. Bruns
wick's continued good defence work was of no
avail. O'Brien and O'Donohue uddeu goals before
tlie quarter ended.
For a time in the loxt quarter Rnmswick scored
goal for goal witii .Footscray, and the game still
reumfiied intcrcHliug. lbiieigh for a while ell co-
lively checked McCarthy in Uie ruck, and Christie,
Grccnhtil and Milieu treorcd goals for Brunswick,
while Smith (2) and O'Donohue did likewise lor
FooUcmy. But Uic pressure proved too great.
From about the middle of .the Lret quiu'tcr, when
tlie scores were 12.10 to 7.10. Brausivick per
ceptibly tired, but FooUctuy kept going, and
»rom that lime liad everything their own way, and
adding goal aflcr gull ran out cosy winners ire
above in a game tiiat indeed would liure done
credit to any League team.
Fboiscray inul a very even side, but if any
player should bo mentioned they would bo Mar
tin, M'Cortiiy, Eason, Doolan, Mclson, H'iniyrc,
Valeuiine, U Bncn aud Sanipaon; while Biuire-
wick s best were Raleigh, O'Connor, Swill, Gnm-
jicr, GUristie, iloore ami M'Gonnack.
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