FOOTBALL.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 June 1925, Page 4

FOOTBALL.

I CItKYMH! "i'll, .limn I. ! (Hill'd senior, won the sevcn-a-sule. j ill the linnf lief.-ai inStar- hv d io it. [nr TfcliF.oiurm —run mums j?socmt;oi; U'kiXiNTiTOX. .lime It. I’iider the worst pnssihle iniidiliolilln* N<’Zealand lil'leen lo lour Au-.-Iralia me, Y.'ellinyi mi reps to-day lafore an a ttenda tin* of .‘t.dOii. A sotiflierlv Morta, wliieli had lasted lor two days, had soaked the ground t liorone hlv. and when the game cutnii'ence'l the storm showed i'.o signs ui abating. Thus the play was reduced to a lit lie more than a mud scramble, and ihe form of the players could not he aeenratr-ly ganged. However, on till* day. several of the New Zealanders made an impressive showing, i’lnhn was th ■ mil si anding hard; on his sjde. and Klvey. Matson and .Johnson ids.) dill well. In the forwards I .omits. Kinlavson, Kirkpatrick and Donald were most eonspiumis. Wellington won hv 10 to 0. NAI'IKP.. .Inn,.

The first Uanfttrl.v Shielil mati h of the season was played to-day. Hawke s Ray healing Wairarapa by 22 to 3 Ik*foro an attendance of 10.000. CHRISTCHURCH, .June 0.

The matell between Sydney ’\nrsity and Canterbury College ended in a win for the visitors hv 17 points to lti. Canterbury led at half time by US-0, hut !.y reorganising their rearguard. Sydney 'Varsity made no race of it in the second spell. VAC AN Cl. .June The annual football mateh Wanganui V. Taranaki was played in wet weather this afternoon in the presence of four thousand people. 'I lieresult was a draw. 12 points each.