Football

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 10, 9 July 1889, Page 3

Football

(Notes by "Free Kick.") Owing to only eight of the second fif teen putting in an appearance on Satur day the match between, the second fifteer and Awtfhuri did not take place.. Thii . "was a great disappointment to the|\;isitor! and the eight players who did turn up, as the majority of them had left off worl and came a long way to play the match If those players who failed to put in ai appearance on Saturday do not take more interest in the game, and roll up wher there is a match to be played, they wil only have themselves to blame if they art left out of-the team when the next matci is arranged. * A scratch, match, in which the visitors took part in, was played between sides captained by Henry and Iveson, the Jati*er side proving victorious by six points )4e4hree. Owing to the wet state of the ground no "brilliant play was shown by either side, the play throughout being centred among the forwards. Iveson, Aitken, and Stuart deserve special mention for their capital dribbling, while Dyer, Parr, Hodges, Shearer, Terry, Fanthorpe, Bennett, and Whisker were the most prominent of the other players. Dyer played a splendid back game, considering the greasy state of the ground. He caused no end of amusement to the onlookers ; one after the other he tippled his opponents into the mud when they attempted to collar him. We have not seen the best of this player yet. Any player who- watched the game on Saturday must -have noticed that the dribbling game is far the best on a wet ground. A good team of dribblers would ■win nine games out of ten on a greasy ground. It would repay our forwards far more to employ the time they now spend at drop kicking — an accomplishment of no practical good to them in the game itself— in practising dribbling. I shall have more to say about this and other departments of the -game in my next notes. What an enormous amount of breath is "wasted by certain players in wrangling -with one another, and disputing the officials' decision in matches, and also at practice. Several of the players were guilty in this respect on Saturday, and I think it is high time the Club made an example of some of the talkers. The next time I have' to call the attention to these unmanly exhibitions I will give the names of the offenders. A member of the North. Melbourne Football Club, named Mclnery, has bee a disqualified for the rest of the season by the Victoria Football Association for assault and using bad language. I must remind members of the match to-morrow. Every member is requested to roll up and join in the game if possible and come in fancy dress. The members of the Pirates Football Club (Hawkes Bay) met at the Masonic Hotel on Saturday evening, and presented a very handsome gold locket to Mr S. Strachan, one of the best players the Club nave had, before he took his departure for this district. As Mr Strachan has been appointed assistant master to the Feilding School, it is quite likely he will ioin the Feilding Club, and there is no doubt he will prove an acquisition in the back division, of the team.