FOOTBALL.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 473, 12 June 1912, Page 3

FOOTBALL.

OTOROHANGA <Tv. MANGAPEHI 3

Own Correspondent

The match, Otorohanga v. Mangapehi, was played her? on Saturday in fine weather. The Otorohanga players arrived by the midday train and were entertained at dinner by the Mangapehi club. Otorohanga won the toss and elected to play with sun and wind behind them. From the kick off, the Mangapehi forwards did some good work forcing the play into Otorohanga's 25, where a good deal of eive-and-take play ensued. Emery, a visiting forward, put in some good work on the line outs. Some passing among the backs was tried on both sides, but good tackling, principally by the forwards, nullified the efforts. The home forwards now seemed to weaken, and the Otorohanga pack rushed play down to Mangapehi's 25. Symes picked up but was splendidly tackled by Tamahiki. From loose play Symes again secured and struggled over with about three or four opponents hanging no. No goal resulted. Otorohanga 3, Mangapehi nil. From a Mangapehi rush, the ball went over the line near the curner, and Darlington fell on it. The line umpire's flag went up, however, and the ball was brought back. Shortly afterwards T. Clark kicked a good penalty goal for the visitors, and half time sounded with the scores Otorohanga 6, Mangapehi nil. On resuming the Mangnpehi pack livened up, and played splendidly throughout the spell. Several penalty shots at Otorohanga's goal missed. From one shot Ellis, Lowe and Hayson followed up fast, smothered the Otorohanga back with the ball, and Lowe, securing, dived over. No goal resulted Otorohanga 6, Mangapehi 3. Mangapehi now made great efforts for some time to add to the score, but; the Otorohanga defence was stubborn. Play hovered in Otorohanga's 25 for about fifteen minutes, and then gradually worked to midfieid. No further score resulted and the game ended Otorohanga 6, Mangapehi 3.. NOTES. The game was characterised throughout by hard, though clean, play. Both packs worked hard indeed, though I am inclined to think Mangapehi°verp a little the better in the loose. There was nothing to pick and choose between the two teams, however. For the visitors, Symes, Holden, Emery and the Clark Bros, were especially noticeable. For Mangapehi perhaps the best forwards were Lowe, Ellis, Korcheke and Charter's and Goodall as five-eights, also played a good game. When the - soya bean trade leaped into prominence a couple of years ago fears were expressed lest the Indian linseed trade should suffer. The oil from the Manchurian bean answers most of the purposes of linseed oil, and has the additional advantage of being edible and convertible into vegetable butter. Further, the meal obtainable from the flour was claimed to be more nutritious than wheaten flour, and the bean cake, more desirable both as a cattle fodder and a manure than linseed cake. For a time the soya bean had things very much it sown way. Mills were specially constructed at Hull and elsewhere to deal with it; and Germany seeing that England, owing to her freetrade usages, was reaping practically all the benefits of the boom, took special steps to remove the duty on soya beans so that her merchants could compete on level terms with those of England. And so the competition for the limited stock of Manchurian beans spread. But, Indian linseed, instead of suffering, brought higher prices than ever. This fact, however, was entirely due to the short crops of linseed in Argentina and other great linseed growing tracts, and there is good reason to suppose that Indian linseed will fetch inviting prices this season as well. The demand for soya beans is for first-grade only, and is so insistent that prices have jumped up considerably. The trad* has in consequence suffered an uncomfortable setback, the imports at some of the principal importing centres being short by thousands of tons.