Football Notes

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 35, 31 March 1894, Page 5

Football Notes

WAREHOUSEMEN (Dunedin) v PIRATES. (Bv Referee.) The above scramble came off on 'Saturday last under favourable cirf'Cunastances, weather and ground being perfect, but unfortunately the play was not by any means up to the mark. The result was Pirates (i points, Warehousemen nil. The score was made up of a potted goal and a try. The goal was a pretty piece of .play, being done neatly and quickly. It had, however, the effect of making the rest of the game uninteresting, •as the visitors seemed to loose heart ■ after the I points were put up against them. Individual play on both side is hardly worth noting ; of the visitors McKenzie, Best, and Smyth were • about the best, the latter being- a tricky runner. The local backs seemed all at sea, not one playing a decent second fifteen game, the passing was ill-timed—one halfback's notably so. Of the forwards, Anthony, Earquharson, and Smith did good service. Tad king was freely indulged in b}' both sides, and the entire absence of anything- like open play made the game slow and uninteresting. Mr R. Galbraith made -aa efficient though rather lenient j referee. j In the evening a dinner and smoke j concert was given to the visitors, and ■ with Mr C. Todd, the popular captain of the I.F.C. in the chair, everything went on as merrily as a marriage bell. On Sunday the local team drove then-late antagonists to Riverton beach, and after slaughtering- about two of ■the farmer’s worst friends they returned, all having agreed that they had had a jolly day.

TOOLE AND THE CHURCH ON THE HILL. During his visit to Newport, where he appeared in u Walker, London,” Mr Toole appears to have thoroughly enjoyed himself. Many stories are told in the Weish papers, but none is more characteristic than that told by the Western Mail of how the genial comedian hoaxed a native domestic. On Sunday morning he decided to go to St. Woolos’s Church, and goingup Stow-hiil he stopped outside a house, and asked a girl who was washing the doorstep where the parish church was. “ Dp on the top of the hill, sir,” the maid demur3ly replied. “ Top of the bill, indeed,” growled Toole. “ What d’ye want to put the parish church top of a hill for f” The girl, in astonishment, said she bad nothing to do with the location of the church.

“ Putting a parish church top of a bill, so that people can't get np there. Why, you ought to bo ashamed of yourself.” The comedian scowled. The girl jumped up off her knees and defiantly snarled that she had had nothing to do with putting the edifice where it stood. But Toole stuck to her, without appearing to hear any of her px-otestations. “ Ought to be prosecufed rig-lit away ; putting church top of the lull ; people can’t get up there.” Warming up to the greatest altitude of feminine exasperation, the girl finally threw up her brush and floorcloth, and said the blessed old church was there long before she was born.