FOOTBALL.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 6, Issue 346, 8 April 1884, Page 3

FOOTBALL.

..: The menfbers of theGrore Football Club played theif inaugural . match on Saturday afternoon. Sides had been j chosea. Jb* ~;the r .~, captain (Symes) -and depuM^OTfajp! thirteen doing battle rnboth Yearns— an "attendance that must be regarded as highly sati^fe^rj.rjThe weather Was all that j cojidd}i&d®ls(d by. the mosJLiardenfc enthusiast of thej. game, being neither too hot nor too cold. "As might have been expected.-^ .considering the r , ;^umber ,pf new players participating in the game-^---the play was of a rough nature ; but this fatilt#Bb;puid s bS remedied by a month's.! practice and due attention to the^ rules. When time was E called, it was founctth&t victory remained a with the deputy-cap* tain's teanTby one coal, (the try. and goal "botHibeing-Qbtain^d by. Macpherson) to a touchdown' (got by tabatt). Altogether the captain's team played better together J&a&_ th&iv opponents; ' they apparently having ; mOSt Of the bid- on. tkevp side ; while the , d^puty^captain's team lean attribute^ their. yjptory to the play of ;ooao w- 0jo ') indijidji lils /; For good play in - the captain's team :'-,. Ambrose and J^Gulloch (backs), and ; Symes, Labatt,. Smith, Sayers, Eadie,. ancLHadley (forwards). The tw6 ;? 'iast-named played a capital game, and the ; same may be said of the collaring of -Ambrose, who was the only man able to. successfully negotiate Wallis and Macpnerson, the fast runners . M'Cul-loch,-as half-back, was very smart, and •with a little practice will make a good man at that position. For the deputycaptain's side, Douglas played an excellent full-back game : during the time he was present, and Wallis and Macpherson (three-quarter-backs) travelled over a lot pf ground at a rare "bat." Johnson (half-back) did good service ; and among the forwards, Hunter (a pro? mising>pmyer), Norrie, Souness, and oaej^W& others were most prominent, /^^en all through the play was very fair, /and once the players are in proper trim, we expect to hear of them giving good accounts of themselves. The forwards should ipla'y. [more un the ball, and kick j egs — a great deal less — when a scrim' mage is formed ; the half-backs should, play more -unselfishly and pass the ball? to the three-quartor-hacks more freauently than was "the case on Saturday ;\ ie three-quartef-b^ks should tackle 1 well, ;^indlwh§rii ; HKely to be collared! eithe*T>'aW'ts"'a comrade or kick the ba]l: well down into tbiich; the full-backs must be- sure collarers and able to kick with ease and certainty. And the whole j teams should talk much less and thus save their wind ; it is impossible that ©very jnan^ can, be captain or umpire. -„