Football Items

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 43, 27 September 1892, Page 3

Football Items

The Football match between the Wei* lington and Bfanawatu Bugby Unions was played at, Wellington on Saturday afternoon, Wellington winning by 13 pointirto nit. The visitors were weok« ened biy the absence of two or three who were selected being unable to get away while the local team lost the service of their old. skipper, Ellison, who was suffering from a weak ankle, and W. Roberts was' substituted* The weather was fine, but the ground was slippy jQ places. Manawatu, playing with an ad., vantage of the wind and ground' in the first spell' pinned Wellington in their territory, for the first half hour, but then the loeal, forwards started a rush, and from a series of scrums near their op ponenVs line Wynyard got over, but Lee. failed to convert. The spell ended without any further' score. On resuming the ymitors were rat dnce. compelled to act on the defensive^ and' Gage, after a .splendid dodgy run, . crossed their line, but Lee again failed: to, -in crease the score;. The visitors were now having a lively time of it. and when, the hall was within their 25's, Baiter, the Wellington three • quarter, tried a shot from a d iffi • cult angle, and placed an nnmistakeable goal. From the kick off the visitors were again oh the defensive, and for a time they held their own, ,but at last White, receiving a beautiful pass from Wynyard, fell across the line, .between the posts. and Baumber, easily converted, From this out the visitors played desperately, butnUhou X li tWy-''ftrrie£ : 't]io ball npar ■ the Wellington line, they were unable to score, and the game .ended as above. The Wellington reps, claim premier honors in Ithe football ■■ field ibis season. They have played four representative matches, againßtHawkes Bay, Wairarapa, Canterbury, and Manawatu, in each case defeating their opponents.