FOOTBALL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3543, 28 September 1926, Page 2

FOOTBALL

HOROWIHENUA v. HAWKE’S BAY. % AT LEVIN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2nd. The following will represent Horowhenua in the above match: — Ryder Roberts. Hunt. McDonald. Warren. Winiata. McDonald. Jacob. Maihi. Gregg. Tana, Gleeson. Moynihan. Bond. Dalzell. Reserves:— Backs: Graham, W. Parata. Forwards: Tohu, Dunn. THE HAWKE’S BAY TEAM. The Hawke’s Bay team will arrive at. Levin by the 3.28 p.m. train on Thursday next, and will be met by Mr J. J. O’Connor, President of the Horowhenua Rugby District Council, and by Mr Tlios. Hobson, Mayor of Levin. In the evening the team has been invited to attend the Weraroa Football Club’s dance, as guests of the Club. On Friday the Rugby Council is arranging for a tour of the district and would like to receive offers of ears. Anyone able to help in this direction is asked to communicate with the secretary (Mr J. Casey), ’phone 273 Levin. The proprietors of the De Luxe Theatre have invited the members of the Bay team and the Horowhenua team together with officials, to attend a picture entertainment on Friday night. On Saturday the match will be staged at 2.45 p.m. In the evening at 8 p.m. the Rugby Union’s smoke concert will take place. Tickets, 5/- each, are now on sale in each of the centres of the Union. On Sunday they will be the guests of tluf Union at Hokio. The visitors depart by the 11.31 train on Monday morning for Napier. MAORIS’ FIFTH WIN. London, September 26. The Maoris played the Lyons team at Lyons to-day, and won by 17 points (five tries, one converted) to 3 (one try). RECORD TO DATE. So far the Maoris have won five matches, scoring 194 points to 20 registered against them. Details are as follows: Defeated Olympigues at Marseilles by 27 to 3.‘ Defeated Burgundy at Grenoble by 34 to 6. Defeated Littoral at Airquon by 29 to 8. Defeated Lyons at Lyons by 17 to 3.

At Levin on Saturday, what was practically a Horowhenua representative fifteen was pitted against a team selected from the rest of those, players available in the district, and after some bright play, and also some of the ragged variety was witnessed, the Probables ran out easy winners by 28 points to 12. Until the second spell had been under way for some time, the Possibles put up a creditable fight and kept their opponents* busy, but then the combination, and the superior fitness of the Reps, was manifest, and towards the finish they scored frequently.