FOOTBALL NOTES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8450, 29 May 1907, Page 3

FOOTBALL NOTES.

(By AU-Black.) The following are the positions of the teams competing under the auspices of the Wairarapa Rugby Union - SENIOR. •

"When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug-of-war." And Saturday's game between Masterton and Carterton was a proper tug-of-war. Though Carterton had the best of the game, Masterton put up a fine fight. Masterton's weakness was in the back division —certainly an unusual state of affairs. There was nothing brilliant about the play of the Carterton backs, but , they were safe enough. The long kicks of McKenzie, the Carterton fullback, were of tremendous assistance to his team. Logan played the trickiest game in the field, and but for his cleverness Carterton would probably have scored. J. O'Leary played a good solid game, but it appeared as if the hard work he had to do defending began to tell on him towards the end of the game. v Masterton were certainly handicapped in having to play two of their best forwards (A. Ross and Duggan) on the threequarter line, and it would be absurd to expect these players to do as good work, as men who are used to playing in the positions. Nevertheless, they did very fair work at times. To a large extent the stubborn fight Masterton pufc up was due to the,forwards, who played a splendid game against their heavier opponents. Towards the last, however, the strain began to tell on them, and .the Carterton pack had it pretty well all their own way. Barry ans Fielding did fine work in the front row, and beat the Carterton front-rankers for the ball nearly every time. C. Ross was conspicuous all , through the game for his good allround play, and was the best of the | | Gray, too, played well,. and had a solid opponent on the wing in Arm- 1 strong. I Next to Gray and C. Ross, Lyall I was the m6st noticeable, of the for- I wards, his following up being splen- | did. The other forwards all played stubbornly. E. McKenzie andGroube were the pick of the Carterton backs. Of the forwards. Henderson, Armstrong, and Johnson all played with dash. The "barracking" of a section of the Masterton "barrackers" was very one-sided and the hooting to which some of the Carterton players were subjected was quite uncalled for. The match between Gladstone and Red Star at Gladstone is said to have been very "willing"—in fact, it was at times very rough. Red Star beat Gladstone in all departments of the game, and lost several tries by overeagerness and through the goal line not being distinctly marked. Wrigley and Adams played capital games in the Star back division. Todd easily stood out as the best forward on the ground. He was ably assisted by Collett, Clarke, iCorbett and Spring. Momo was the best of .the Gladstone backs, and Moana of the forwards.

Red Star Masterton Carterton Greytown Gladstone s i * 3 2 1 1 — 1 — — 1 — 2 a * Q 1 1 1 1 o fa CO CM 15 31 14 0 3 to < -2 14 3 0 9 37 in •+-> P4 JS V 2 15 U 4 5 JUNIOR. Ruahine Martin borough Masterton Red Star Garterton Featherston 2 0 2 0 2 1 - 1 2 - 0 2 0 2 1 1 1 1 15 4 26 3 45 9 15 32 4 15 3 51 25 25 2 1 5 5