 While this was happening one of the English players, Frank Evershed, picked up the ball and scored a try.The New Zealanders protested, believing that play had stopped after claiming Stoddart had called "dead ball" – but Hill awarded the try, prompting three of the Native players, Dick Taiaroa, Williams, and Sherry Wynyard, to leave the field in protest.The aggrieved players were eventually persuaded to return, but not before Hill had restarted play.