Australian Football

Match Report

Improvement in Carlton

The Carlton novices fairly astonished their friends on Saturday by playing such a fine game against South Melbourne that the latter were in dread of defeat until the bell rung, and breathed a long sign of relief when it was all over and they had won by four points. If it were not, however, that the South a gained a slight advantage in keeping their places better than the Blues there would have been little to choose between them. The best thing in the Carlton play-as promising better things in the future-was the dash and determination with which they finished.

Several changes were made in the composition of their team - two notable absentees being Blake and Woodhouse, while two old players in P. Williams and Cameron, came back into the twenty, and both shaped well. Hannah played the best game on the ground, his pace on the wing greatly taking the onlookers' fancy, Reekie, on the half-back line was also particularly good, McPetrie, who comes from St. Kilda, and Sweetman, from Ascot Vale, each got two goals, but the best goal for the side was scored by O’Cock, when he seemed completely hemmed in. Cummins, Aitken, and Howard also shaped very well.

The South were playing without the two Adamsons, whose father had died, and as a mark of sympathy with their bereaved comrades the team wore crape arm bands.