1912 Olympic Games Official Report Part 2

had shown against Sweden. During the second half, the Austrian forwards didthe best piece of work of all of their performances during the Olympic competitions,and it was only Campelli’s fine show in goal that kept the result of the playwithin reasonable proportions.FINAL.HUNGARY v. AUSTRIA. 3 — 0Råsunda, Friday 5 July, 7 p. m.HUNGARY: (forwards, from left): Borbás Caspár, I Schlosser, M. Pataki, ABodnár, B. Sebestyén ; (half-backs): B. Zoltan, A. Vago, G. Biró; (backs): E. PayerJ. Rumbold ; (goal): L. Domonkos.AUSTRIA : (forwards, from left) : L. Grundwald, L. Neubauer, R. Merz, A. Müller,L. Hussak ; (half-backs): J. Brandstetter, K. Braunsteiner, R. Cimera ; (backs): B.Graubard, L. Kurpiel ; (goal): J. Kaltenbrunner.Referee : H. G. Willing (Holland).As was to be expected, national feeling played no unimportant part in thismatch, and Mr. Willing’s rôle as — peacemaker — was anything but a sinecure. Arougher game has never been played in Sweden, and it was only the fear ofcausing the scandal to assume still greater proportions that prevented the refereefrom ordering several of the players of both sides off the field. The whistle washeard incessantly for free kicks, and on one occasion Mr. Willing was obliged tocall the teams together and admonish them to play a more gentlemanly game.Very naturally, the game suffered greatly in consequence of these continualfouls and interruptions, but in spite of this, the match was a most interesting one.The big, powerfully-built and speedy Hungarians played the whole of the time asif they were in an ecstasy, and, at times, the pace was quite abnormal. Thebrilliant Hungarian outside forwards centered towards goal time after time, but thevery agile Kaltenbrunner cleared the hard shots from Schlosser and Bodnársuperbly.It took no less than 30 minutes’ play to produce the first goal, this comingoff Schlosser’s foot, the Hungarian reaching the ball the fraction of a second beforeKaltenbrunner, and poking it into the net. Half time came with the score 1-0in favour of Hungary.The second half saw the culmination of the foul play which had been visibleduring the first half, and soon a short pause had to be made in order to allowthe hot blood of the players to cool a little. After this pause came the best playof the match. The Austrian forwards combined better than those of Hungary,but the latter’s backs, Rumbold especially, played brilliantly, and Domonkos wasseldom obliged to put his hand to the ball. After 27 minutes, Hungary’s leadwas increased by Pataki, who took a pass to centre by Borbás Gaspár and easilyplaced it into the net. Then Hungary began to force the game, sending the ballfrom wing to wing, with the result that Bodnár, after a brilliant individual attack,gave Hungary its third and finest goal.The Hungarians thus became the well-deserving winners of the consolationseries. Their best men for the day were the left wing, Gaspár and Schlosser,and the right back, Rumbold.Austria had more of the game than the goal-total shows. Kaltenbrunner, Braun-Steiner and Merz playing a superb game.499