RUGBY FOOTBALL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 916, 8 September 1910, Page 5

RUGBY FOOTBALL.

<- WELLINGTON B, 19; MANA- :, : . " (By. Telegraph.—Press/Association.]. ,';," ».■;.;'/ -jPalmerston, : September. 7/';. Wellington ,B played tho combined. Hbrowhenuaattd: Manawaiu football r<^ -presentatives'. '•herd' .'.-. to-day.;;: V'! VThe' .weather Wa§; delightful; 'but'■there -:.was; a :yeTy;.bright sunitf the players'; eyes. ; /Wellington .won;. the' toss,./' and after thestart'.Grace, cuttihgSin; scored :for the visitors, and -Mackenzie; goaled. 'Wellington.,'is;."Maiiawatu,;-'.iuK; : ; '; -The Greens attacked, i but missed .;-,tHeir: "passes a good. deal, :■ and; : then' , -'-Roberfe .slipped-:;tlirough^; 'and lington,:'B;'-'Mnhawatii',v nil.-;,./Shortly, after, ■ Grace "scored. ■' again';! goaling. r..Wellington, had' thus; put on; ]3 .points;:in, fifteehli'mihutes! ;;,;;Hughes;the 1 Greens' .full-back;: was\seen.;'to : ,be very lame.'.. : andvtlic,'- Blacks ' passed'him ■ easily, , ..while ; tlie; : rest of. the'iteam-'seeni-ed' bothered ■ with 'it-he.: sun',. I .' aiid.'gener.ally.at sea. : ._i3race kicked ; past Hughes, .aud,': .outpacing;':hiiß,.'.. scored-..;again; - ' ;.AVoU|ng'l»n;^'l6;^Manawatui:vnil-.'vJ' , . ] llie : Green's - were'.'no'w ■ 'finding!-- themselvesi'hbwevor; and:Wmiatagotpycr',J;.:but: : .waß. ; ■called back,'.'amid: a'demonstration .from; the crowd.V- iTlieii , :a..fine' bit'..qf■'^passing' ■■fondwe^j--: : 'and.;tKis.\home\-r. : 'ba^s:':- : -i-scnt; Winiatav':ojer : ; again. yiThis^me:'^the[try : was;:: : allowed:A{/i!Vellington^v:l6;■ Manawatu , , ■ -3;V:v-At 1 ; half-tim;ej:it. ; was; foivnd;:that ; '-Hughes.;:had 'ihis'iinkle;.; and.,ho,:was replaced.:.by -O'Con-. npr.'v'ivTbe.;Greens-.'set-flp' a ■determinea attack fr<)ni.\the outset,',and.'the.second theirs;?.but, tliey.vcbuld)hot' score;'en6tigh ; jto ; ':makej up.;for- those; .fir'rf* -..minutes".;' i ßawiri; scored, , and' .Winiata' gbaled, ; '. and '-then! Carroll.'scored. watu, 11. , :: ,'".;Many -;■ 'further , were mad© .by.-' Manawatu •:'• t6] : {jetl-Wer/ but; these ; : nyereivdefeated-;amid ; ;'grea4 Excitement, iWellington '.-made. ; ,re- - in:oneof;wiich, .just :;Rflberts: : marked' from ii:aA kicKed; ; a splendid^vgpal .-i,;-' : '.;Wellington; thus.,won..by.;l9; points' -.tp.".-!!..';- .1.-'ViVt-'.^