Football.

Manawatu Herald, 18 August 1904, Page 3

Football.

BRITAIN v^TARANAKI

A DRAWN GAME,

Rain fell during the match which was witnessed by 9000 people. The ground was very sloppy, and the game was mostly a forward one. Taranaki held a great advantage throughout. The local forwards were more than a match for the visitors, and the backs all did good work, handling a greasy ball wonderfully. It was the general impression that if the match had been played on a fine day and on a good ground, Taranaki must have won. OLD BOVS v. WANDERERS. Those members of the public who braved the elements of the weather and ventured out to the racecourse yesterday afternoon to witness the Old Boys-Wanderer match, were doomed to disappointment, the match not taking place owing to the Old Bovs objecting to two players who had been •picked to do battle for the Wanderers. On what grounds they objected we are unable to state, but rumour has it that the two individual players were too formidable looking.

The following players will represent Awahou on Saturday against Hula : Full back, F. Robinson; J, Wallace, Thompson, Louisson; five-eights, J. Presthng; half, W. Cook; wings, J. Joe, W. Robinson ; forwards, Jeffries, Lee, Brown, Procter, J. Coley, S. Wright, Jillitt. Emergs.—-Backs: B. Shadbolt, G. Lees; forwards: W. Coley, A. Wright. The revised returns for the BritainNew Zealand match shows that the cash taken at the gates amounted to £lßls 8s 3d, and at the stands £298 16s, the total being £2lx4 4s 3d, which is an Australasian record. The Government must have made a lot out of the telegraphic traffic over the Britain-New Zealand match. Skipper Stead received fifty congratulatory telegrams and eight cablegrams; other members of the team received about half-a-dozen telegrams each. Stead received telegrams from the Maoris in all parts, and even from Stewait Island. New Zealand footballers now in South Africa sent a cablegram from Natal. It look six men to lift all the silver taken at the gates at Wellington on Saturday. The Wairarapa Maoris were anxious both to feast and to play the Britishers, but the invitations had to be declined.