FOOTBALL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8435, 6 May 1907, Page 6

FOOTBALL.

RED STAR v. GREYTOWN. A match was played in Fraser's Paddock, Masterton, on Saturday afternoon, between the' Red Star and reytown Seniors teams. Neither nib was fully represented. The round was in a slippy condition, and Jlitated against a good exposition i' the game. An unfortunate accimt occurred during the first spell, /. Darvill, one of the Red Star acks, breaking his right leg below ~e knee. Ho was in the act of pickiig up the ball when a Greytown layer kicked at the ball, missed it, tid caught Darvill on the leg. Greytown kicked off and attacked. Good play by McLachlan and Darvill ,sed the pressure, but the Reds reined to the attack., The < Star forwards worked the ball to the centre, .vhere from a scrum j Dorsett received he ball and made for the line. He cleverly eluded two or three players, id was within a foot of the line vhen ho slipped and fell, losing a certain score, as there was no one in .■ont of him to bar his progress; lay centred for a time, and Cor,.tt. following up fad:, scored for he Stars. No goal resulted, u'eytown attacked, but some good by Walker and Dorsett carri«M ,y to the centre. Carrick found is line well' down and the Star .wards attacked. Wrigley nearly at over the line, and then Grey.wn worked the ball back to their ■. line. A fine kick by Wing put oeytown on the defensive again, and entually Wrigley scored. The try is Wrigley. Wynes, ,)ss and Workman were responsible jr Red Stars having a brief spell at lending, but Wing and McLachlan .moved play to the centre. Cham•rlain, Scorraf, anil Corbett headed rush to the Greytown tine, but i/iy centred again, and half-time mded with the Stars attacking. .Shortly after the start of the spell, the Star forwards, tded by Wickens, Scorrar and Nor:tn, invaded the Greytown territory.

Scorrar was prominent in taking the ball to the line and Grey town were kept busy defending. The Grey town forwards carried play to the centre, but a clever piece of play by Walker set the back machinery of the Stars in motion, and the ball was taken to the line. Play centred for a time, and several Star passirg rushes were The Stars attacked repeatedly, and eventually McLachlan scored a neat try, which was not converted. Shortly after, Carrick (wing threequarter) got over the line for the Stars, but the kick at goal was a failure. The most noticeable features of the remainder of the game were good work by Wing, the Star fallback, determined rushes by the Grey town forwards, a fine run by Smith, a Star forward, and good play by Workman, Ross and Wynes for Grey town. The whistle sounded time with the score—Red Star, 14 points; Grey town, nil. Mr T. G. Hoar was referee. MASTERTON CLUB. The Masterton senior and junior teams played a match on the Showgrounds, on Saturday, the juniors winning by 11 points to 9. Neither side had a full team, and the seniors had one or two players less than the juniors. Two tries were scored for the winners by Jack Hanley and one by McHattie. Plarding converted one of the tries. For the seniors Ross, Meredith and Duggan scored tries. Hanley, Daniell, and MacMahon showed up well on the junior forwards, and Harding and Holmes were the pick of the backs. Jas. Hanley played a good, safe game s fullback. Lyall, Mackellar, and Boddington were prominent in the senior forwards, and O'Leary, Duggan and Garnett were the pick of the backs. Mr R. Spademan was referee. By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, May 4. The football season opened, to-day, with uncertain weather, but the rain, which had fallen earlier in the day. held off during the matches. The Senior Cup matches resulted as follow : Ponsonby beat Parnell by 17 to 3, and North Shore beat Grafton by 13 to nil.

By Telegraph—Press Association. DUNEDIN, May 4. The following are the results of today's senior football matches:— Southern beat Kaikorai by 7 to 6, Pirates beat Zingari-Richmond by 11 to nil, Dunedin beat Union by 22 to nil, University beat Port Chalmers by 16 to 6, Alhambra beat Taieri Rovers by 17 to 6. By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, May 5. The football championshp contests were continued in dry, cold weather. The grounds were rather soft, favouring forward play. After a hard taasle Poneke defeated Oriental by 6 points (two tries) to nil. Melrose beat Wellington, 20 to 3 (two goals from tries, one try, goal from field, goal from mark to try). Old Boys, 14 (one goal and three tries), beat Vicoria College, nil. By Telegraph—Press Association. , CHRISTCHURCH. May 4. The Senior football matches were continued to-day (Saturday) in splendid weather. Results:-- Sydenham (11) beat Christchurch (0); Old Boys (17) beat Linwood (8); Merivale (20) beat Canterbury College (3).