TROTTERS AT PLAY

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 782, 1 October 1929, Page 12

TROTTERS AT PLAY

TOMORROW’S LEAGUE CLASH BARMEN IN READINESS Arrangements are complete for the staging of the return L.eague football match at Carlaw Park tomorrow afternoon between the trotting trainers’ and barmen’s teams. Since their defeat a fortnight ago, the hop-extract dispensers have been putting., in sound training at “Lion” Park and with their reinforced combination are confident that tomorrow' they will prove equal to downing the pacing merchants, and thus force a play-off for the “Speight’s pewter.** Hudson, the barmen’s “Gloaming,” is in great order and his admirers are prepared to see him outstrip the speedist pacer on the field, while it is the general opinion that if Walker Hennessey and Oilby are in the right “spirit” they will stir things up to some tune. Tho light-harness heads, however, are confident that, properly “geared’* up. tho bids from Alexandra Park will worthily uphold their end in what promises to be a hard and fast contest. If there is no “team driving,” but a good amount of “team work,” tlie trotters should be on deck when tho whips are cracking for tho final dash. A try-out at Epsom during the weekend of all the candidates showed they were ready to put up the go of their career, end with such speed merchants as Jewel Pointer, Native Prince. Gold Jacket. Evelyn Locanda and Mountain Dell represented, there should be some rare pace on during the journey.