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Free Lance, Volume II, Issue 104, 28 June 1902, Page 5

TRK M-fonc! meeting this season of tli«> mmuoi fifteens of the Poneke and Wd'ington Clubs on the Athletic Pail: last Saturdat, was an mteiestmg and keen!} contested exposition of the Rugby game under achcr&e conditions. Right from the kick-off, both teams went at it in right good earnest, and the promise of a strenuous match was early verified. The game was m d >übt right till the whistle blew ten " no side," the Wellington team ictneving then- defeat in the first lound b\ Icjiviiv?, the field Mcton ous on this occasion by six points te three. For the uirneis. Meiedith played nearer his old foim than am time pieviously this season, and a eounle more such exhibitions should make Ins place in the repieseutntne team a certainty. Brodio still kept up his improved foim, but Panv and Mclntvre did nothing out of the common. Wilson kicked finely up hi« touchline, and trained considerable eiiouncl every time Lo\ att is unfoitunate at full-back. Take.i all round, his display was veiv creditable ruleed but he made a couple of mistakes, and from one of them Poneke scored their only try Mansons pot-ition for a place as wing-forward repiesentative should be assured by this time, and his display m this match was- only a replica of previous efforts.