Newtown 27–13 St. George — Preliminary Final, 1954 NRL Finals Series

Preliminary Final, 1954 NRL finals series: Newtown 27–13 St. George, at Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, NSW on 11 Sep 1954.

Sourcing caveat: Significant try-scorer disagreement between RLP's two page types. Individual match page: Newtown - Considine (4 tries) only, no mention of Preston; St George - Gittoes and Bugden (2 tries each = 4). Round-summary page: Newtown - "Considine, Preston" (no counts given); St George - "Gittoes, Bugden" (no counts given). Independent arithmetic resolves this: Newtown's 27 points only balances with 5 tries (5x3=15, +4 goals x2=8, +2 field goals x2=4 = 27), i.e. Considine 4 + Preston 1 - consistent with combining both sources. St George's 13 points only balances with 3 tries total, not 4 (3x3=9, +2 goals x2=4 = 13) - the individual page's 4-try figure (2 each for Gittoes and Bugden) does not reconcile and is one try too many. The true 2-1/1-2 split between Gittoes and Bugden cannot be determined from either source. This is reported as a reconciled-by-arithmetic best estimate, not a directly-stated source claim: Newtown tries recorded as Considine (4) and Preston (1); St George tries recorded as Gittoes and Bugden combining for 3 total, exact individual split unconfirmed.