FOOTBALL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 210, 8 September 1904, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

TAIUNAKI V. MANAWATU. AT ELTHAM TO-DAY, Last night's Argus states that the ground for to-day's match, despite thu rain, will lie in capital pluyiny order. The Munawatu team arrived h.v lust night's mail train. The visitors, if Uicy desire, will Iktaken for a drive into the country this morning, and after the matcJi will be the guests of the union at dinner in the Coronation Hotel, at which th« Mayor will preside. The gamo will start punctually at ten minutes past three, and will conso■lueutly l)o Imishcd 'by a (Quarter to lice. The following ure thu respective teams : TAIUNAKI. Dr. Kookes Bourko Hunter AWxitt llynolt l'Yewin Guy Thomas Burne-Jauos >ilusgow (llenn McKay O'Sullivan Douglas Young MANAWATU G. Hammer .1. Baker L. Kurrie V. Penman J. Stalker H. Hewitt A. McMinn Johnston W. Boon Whisker Smith 0. Fras«r Galloway P, McMinn W. Adams Mr Howe, of Wellington, has been appointed referee by the New Zealand Kugby UnioE. OTACiO V. WAIRAUAPA.

MASTKKTON, September 7. The Otago v. Wairarapu representative match, played hereto-day, resulted in a win for Otago by live points to nil. The score was secured 'in the Urst few minutes, and matters were even during the rest of the game, Wairarapa crossed the line twice, but the scores were disallowed,. AFTER THE BATTLE. Sydney Bulletin thus refers to the lSedell-Sivright team : When the British footballers arrived in Sydney last week they might have been mistaken for invalided contingenters from Port Arthur. Some limped along, others stepped warily with the aid ol sticks. There were arms in slings, faces In sticking-plaster. All bore testimony to the fact that in Maoriland the iganie is very 'willing." No doubt Uie long and exceedingly rough coastal voyages had some effect, and the hard eating and drinking were items to 1» considered, but judging hy the wrecked uppearance 0 f Uie beam there were evidently some of live solid ele'ments of the game behind Uie rapid downward slide made by our late conquerors.

The date of the M.L.-Englisli footbuil match will rank wiith nmny living Maorilanders as moiie important than the Day of Judgment. The crowd that stfiiirined and grunted for admission round the gates of the Athletic Park had congregated irom all uiiurtera of the two islands. T:K! scenes in other town.; round the post oflices resembled a general election, the crowd waiting in a sort of da/.ed expectation untii the announcement of the result gave the signal for wassail. Even old age pensioners nosed the froth oi victorious beer and waved the crutch of approval. For a day or two beforehand all ordinary news was at a discount, and an earthquake which did £750 worth ol damage to Wellington Public Library was despised as an impertinence. The news of the Federal Ministry's defeat fell flat; the London Times stamped its prunella boot and shook Us gamp on epiestions of international law without exciting a yawn. Maoriland went to work on Monday morning with a very red eye and tho score still revolving in its head. ASSOCIATION GAME. A game "East v. West" will be played on the Tukapa ground at 3 o clock (his afternoon, at which all interested are invited to attend.