1908 NSWRL Premiership - Round 3

South Sydney v Cumberland

RAS Showground

Sat May 9, 2:00pm

WIN 23-2

The Wire from the Hill - Last Week

The Wire from the Hill - This Week

This match was played as a preliminary match for the first Australia v NZ test match. Hennessy, Rosewell and Davis were unavilable due to representative duties. This was Cumberland first competition match after missing the start of the season.

South Sydney and Cumberland met at the Agricultural Ground. Sydney, this afternoon prior to the New Zealand-Australian engagement. The result is to count in connection with the First Grade Competition. In the first half Bloomfield kicked a capital goal for Cumberland from 10 yards on his side of halfway, and Anderson and Hanna got tries for South Sydney. Each kick at goal failed, and the scores at the interval were 6 to 2 in favor ot South Sydney. The second half was all in favor of South Sydney, the final scores being 23 to 2.

        0-2
        3-2
HT      6-2
       23-2

Anderson, Hanna, A.Butler, Green, Storie tries 
A.Butler 2 from 4, Green 2 from 2 goals        

Crowd      20,000
Referee    G.Seabrook

Final Line Up
                              T  G/A  FG *

Flbk - Conlin, Arthur         -  -     -     
Wing - Jarman, Frank          -  -     -     
Cntr - Fry, Ed                -  -     - (c) 
Cntr - Storie, Frank          1  -     -     
Wing - Anderson, Tommy        1  -     -     
5/8  - Butler, Arthur         1  2/4   -     
Half - Leveson, Jack          -  -     -     
Lock - Butler, Harry          -  -     -     
SRow - Cochrane, Jack         -  -     -     
SRow - Cann, Bill             -  -     -     
Prop - Green, Dick            1  2/2   -     
Hook ± Hanna, Alf             1  -     -     
Prop ± House, Jim             -  -     -     
                                             
                              5  4/6   -

Other First Grade Matches

               W D  L B Diff PT
SOUTHS         3 -  - -  +60  6
EASTS          1 -  - 1  +16  4
GLEBE          2 -  - -   +8  4
BALMAIN        1 -  1 -  +19  2
Norths         1 -  1 -   +1  2
Newcastle      - -  1 1   -3  2
Cumberland     - -  1 1  -21  - **
Newtown        - -  2 -  -21  -
Wests          - -  2 -  -59  -

** Deducted 2 points for joining competition in Round 2

Judiciary News

No one was sent off.

Ref - EN p9 / AS p13 / ST p10 / SS p13 / SMH p10 / AS p6 / Ref p9 / SM p1285 / Sp p7 / FN-17 / FN-20 / Err-2 / Err-3


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