Football.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1470, 2 October 1885, Page 2

Football.

The Manawatu Football team seem to have been- very hardly dealt witn by the Wellington Press, daring their stay m the Empire City. The New Zealand Times, speaking of the match Wellington v. Manawatu, says r-^" The game was a very uninteresting one," and also that the Wellington team was a! weak one As! a matter of fact, we- are informed, "that the game was a wellcontested one throughout, and that McCausland alone, by his grand collaring, stopped Manawatu from scoring, Templar getting through all, but this formidable-full back, oh three occasions. It was not until towards the end of ' the game that Wellington scored so heavily, the; passing ef their backs .. telling on the Manawatu men. Whiteside (playing back) was well fed, but never succeeded m getting. The home team was a strong one, and the greatest interest. was. taken id the' match by all footballers." '-' Reporting on the match "Manawatu v. Athletics, 1 the same paper says the match "resulted, after a not very pleasant game, m a victory for Manawatu." Our informant states " that footballers m Wellington. -are unanimous m saying they have never played more friendly matches than those against the Manawatu team. The match with the Athletics m particular, was a most goodhumored «ame, and the umpires' decisions were accepted pleasantly m each case. Regarding the merits of the game, the Manawatu men had all the best of it, excepting for the first ten: minutes, . and about two or three minutes before the finish, when' the Athletics had the , Ball m Manawatu's 25. The Athletics wer« forced down 6 times and Manawatu 4 times, and yet the Times' report says the Athletics forced the visitors down, reoeatedly, 'but nothing is said of -the success of Manawatu m this particular, which was, as a matter of fact, more noticeable and numerically larger' 1 . The report further states that "the i Athletic team was decidly not first-class, several of their best players being '"substitutes.' 1 These substitutes, we ai'e informed, .included Hirschberg. of the Wellington Club, and Merlet and Manus, Poneke's men. We should. advise the Wellington newspapers to learn to acknowledge morit,even m an opponent, and m future to display more impartiality m their reports, when Wellington doe's. -not happen to be victorious. s :';. ;