Football.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 244, 17 September 1883, Page 2

Football.

-. n l?he return^ , match j Palmerstbn \w Manchester, was played' a^Feildina; on Saturday afternoon. The Palmers'ton* team proceeded thither m a brake, jwhile -fher YQluntoejc^ Brass Band prefceded thf mm another conveyance. The game -.af-footbalUw,as..almQS I tJgn^rjd^sp ( far as the Feilding, men were concerned^ many flagrant; .breaches v ,fdotball haying been' looked .Ofer' by .the^umpire for Feildingi? F^9£ ftndenifcly -did hot 1 know his game. In one case when Haiiltain, for Palmer ston;;' fairly earned avtry at' goal, . havm^forced . it iri and 11 ! 'behind opponent's goal line, the umpire gaveTa decisidtf-against APalmereton on: some pretest or ©thereto the' intense dissatisfaction and disgust of. even many of his own side. { Mr Jackson would doubtless make a fair umpire he tp ; ; reai ,and ,s tady^ : up jiifs' rules,.but as he is, he ( jsho)a][d|Jioii "iake tha 'jleldj Only .two sp ( ells'^eie played ;in , the,, first Eeirding'!'mWe a try .at; goal j from ; mark, ,in 7 the second twenty ( minutes they managed to secure a' goal fftom a splendid kiok : by Thompson. jV^hen time w^s. .callejl', the gaa«e w^Sj., Peilllng, one goai^'one lry|Palmpcston, nil.: No provision' of any description wap made by, Feilding for "ment of their visitors on ih'e ground, or for the band, to whom the people present were' indebted 'for 5 enlivening musia diifiugjtb,e»afteimQoni but tqwavds' wbom not even the merest slbQuv of courtesy was extend.e,d, : .Mh-J? Hastie and Mesßrs Samtnej;? c\ Go. ;after\|?ards did their best to make some reparation, for the treatment, ehqwn to thq Palmer^ ston visitbis, Itj»lt6 he pegjrette4 thato the Feilding— representatives al|owedJ themaelvesf tQ Ijqrgeft ,'Wjha^ f jvas d.ac tol those- whan*! they,*, Bhgu]^,,%veyreoogni»ed as their guests for (he time being.