SALTS AT PLAY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3730, 11 December 1906, Page 2

SALTS AT PLAY.

A feeling or restlessness seems to have prevailed amongst the employees of the respective vessels which were bar-bound in this port for some time. Whether the long period in port had occasioned them the loss of use of their sea-legs and causing a reaction to set in, or whether the mates had an old score to settle with the engineers, we are not in a position to say, but matters were brought to a climax by the mates challenging the engineers to a series of athletic contests, which they played on the local Park last Saturday in characteristic sailor fashion. Following are some of the results - cricket. Engineers.' ■ Cooper, b Paine 23 Maxwell b McDermott ... 6 Chamberlain, b Eden ... 1 Armstrong b McDermott ... 2 McEeod, b, McDermott ... 3 McEean b McDermott ... o Brown, b Paine 0 Ross, b McDermott o Jefferies, b McDermott ... 2 Gill, b McDermott 2 Byes, 4

Total ... 43

Mates. Rogus, b Chamberlain ... i Duthie, retired, ... ... o Seymon, b Cell o Watson, run out 8 Paine, c McEeod 5 Shall, c Waxwell x Walhstrom, b Armstrong ... 8 Wilkinson, b Armstrong ... 1 Munroe, b Mcheod o McDermott, run out ... 8 Eden, b Jefferies 1 Byes ... 9 Total ... 29 Tug-op-war. The Tug-of-war match resulted in the defeat of the engineers by the mates. Following were the teams : Mates— A. Eden, McDermott, R. Rogers, Watson, Duthie, S. Eawton, W. Wahlstrom and W. Payne. Engineers —-J. Jefferies, T. Cooper, Ross, N. Brown, McEean, Chamberlain, Clark and Gill. * Three Hundred Yards race—, Ross (engineers) 1, Jefferies, ( engineers) 2, Shaw (mates), 3.