THE MAORI FOOTBALLERS. DETAILS OF MATCHES AND TOUR.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 363, 27 April 1889, Page 6

THE MAORI FOOTBALLERS. DETAILS OF MATCHES AND TOUR.

The Maori footballers returned to Manchester last Friday, and once again took u p their quarters at the Trevelyuu Hotel. Oae of the team, writing from there on Sunday, gives some particulars of their visits to Oxford and Cambridge, and of the matches with the "Varsity teams, which may be of interest. My correspondent says • — How glad I shall be when the tour is over. I am tired— dead stale— so are all the rest of the boys. Feeling as we do, we long for th 6 29th of March, the day we bid good-bye to Old England. Since the All England match our fello'v& have one and all completely "gone off,"' and at present are absolutely not tit to play; still I fancy the London- Welsh match has in reality more to do with the tooling of weariness which everyone complains ot than the big contest. As you know, the London- Welsh proved a much tougher attair than we bargained for; and our boys had to work \cry hard in the last twenty minutes of the game to make np for their feeble play at the beginning. The morning af'-erthe match Elliott, Madigan, Lee, Williams, W. Warbrick and Keogh were all found to bemoie or less out of sorts. You have, of course, heard the results of the ' Varsity games. They were, I know, surprises to you as they were to me.