FOOTBALL.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 354, 27 March 1889, Page 3

FOOTBALL.

The Christchurrh Club have decided to meet the Wellington Club at Easter, and the match will be played either on Easter Monday or the Saturday preceding that day,. at Christchurch. Curious names in various kind.s of sport aie always attractive. Mr Death, the London bowler, and Mr Life, known in Manchester, have just paled before Mr Shadow, who kept goal in a football match at Birmingham on Christmas Day. It was a game between Tin and Iron, and Tin won, as Iron had Shadow in goal. : The Dunedin people expect thai Keorrh will be back .early in the season and will play for his old club, the Kaikorai, Bee, who has represented the province on several occasions, is at present in Wellington and will play for the Wellington Club. ""Jack " Thomson, who will be remembered as playing halfback against Auckland • here, hasgone toEngland,andwill be badly raisbed by his province. Judging from reports, football will be very brisk in the Otago capital this season, and their representative team should be very strong. A Dunedin correspondent, writing for a Southern paper, says :— Several matches of interest will be played here during the season. At Easter time, the MerivaloClub play the Zingari-Bichmond, and Pirates ; at the same time of the year a visit is expected from the invercargill'Club, and matches will be played with the Dunedin and Hirates Clubs ; in the firat week in May, uhe redoubtable Poneke fifteen engage the Kaikorai ; the Oaraaru players 'visit Dunedin oarly in the season to play the i Ziiigari - Richmond ; the Canterbury

College team play the University in June, probably; the Chrisfcohurch plub is expected, to send a team, down, to institute annual matches with the Pirates ; and the annual matqh between ,tho^C ( hrist's College and High School fii^eenV is , to be,,played here this season., „ . ' \ I. have had , f rec[uenti applications from various, parts of the colony for copies of tho amended 1 ules of football. It will be easily understood that it, Would take up too much space to publish them in these columns. However, to meet those requests the editor of the "Family Friend" has arranged to publish the rules in ertenso in the issue of that journal for next week., Those who want copies should secure them early. With reference to these rules tho following is rather a good hit : — HE'S IN THE ASYLUM NOW. ( With apologies to Tom Costello.) A snouted masher thought one day Hod be a rotei - ec ; For olubs now in advance all par, Quito sure of fee was he. Though years had passed since he had boon A don at all t,ho schools, He bought, a book, and last was seen Perusing tho new rules. And he's in the AsyJiim now, Oh, he's in Che asylum now. To understand he tried, But his brain wentclean " off-side,'' And he's in the asylum now. Joe Warbrick, speaKinc to a newspapor reporter in England, said whilst the team weic in Wales they went down a coal mine, and were invited out fco a fox hunt, the Captain telling us that this was tho first occasion that he had seen a live fox. " Yes, it is true,'' said Joe, "we have now played against four sets of rules ; but Scotland takes* the cake, as a goal beats 50 tries i In It eland, they have only a penalty for tackling oif side, and in Wales they do without umpires except ab linesmen, and you can knock on to your heart's delight, and break England's laws in many ways. At Saturday night's dinner 1 saiU that tho refeiec, nob being able to see on both sides of the scrummage, militated against us a lot, and Mr Hill, the captain of Cardifi, bore out, as he heard tho complaint^ of the players , against the new system." On the snbjectof Wales bcingstrong in tootball, Mr J. Warbrick said thatin Auckland they had seven first team. clubs and about 12 second te.ams going, and they had only 36,000 inhabitants : whereas in Swansea, with nearly double tho population, they hod only one club, so it ought to be a good one. . About the most original report of a football match over seen is that.of a game between Pennsylvania and Wesleyan College. It is cribbed from an American paper. This is the heading ot the report : Rah ! for I'enn-syl-van-i-a ! Thelu&ty weareis of the blue-and-red down Wesloyaus' kicker&. ! The game not as scientific as it might have been, bub it was a 'rattling oout — many good old-tasluoned bone breaking scrimmages, and some .very healthy slugging. Several players injured. "Early in tho game," aaid the reporter, " one of the Wesleyan rushers gave a Pennsylvanian man, a punch in the ear that almost knocked him silly. On Wesleyans' second down the ball was passed to McDonald, who tucked it under hi&arra, and came fly ing around the end of the opposing rush lines. Wagenhurst lowered his head, and ran into him full tilt. The Pennsylvania rushei had evidently miscalculated tho stiffness ot his neck and the hardness ot his head. McDonald met him with a crash, and Wagenhur&t went down almost insensible from the shock. Holliday grabbed the flying McDonald, and stopd Jrim on his head. Poor Wagenhurst was all but used up. He lay stretched out on the muddy ground as limber 'as a rag. j In ten minutes,' however, he was stood upon his feet like a tenpiri by his companions, " and.' pulling, hid wandering wits together he resumed the game." The most novel featuie in the report is" a series of diagrams showing the course of the ball up to the time each goal is kicked.