FOOTBALL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8540, 21 September 1907, Page 6

FOOTBALL.

AUCKLAND v. TARANAKI. By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, September 20. The final match of the present football season will be played here, tomorrow, between Auckland and Taranaki. The Taranaki team arrived by the lakapuna this morning. They have a very strong side, especially among the" backs, Hunter, Mynott and Coleman being included in this division. Taranaki beat Auckland when the teams previously met, and the home team, strengthened by the inclusion of Tyler, Nicholson, and Kiernan is very keen on turning the tables. Hargreaves, the Taranaki fullback, may arrive to-morrow, in which case he will be played, Kivell going up to the wing threequarter and Goodwin being the emergency. Cunningham, of the local team, is to be married to-morrow, and will not play. The scrum will be locked by McGuire, and Hall will be played in the back row. Mr R. Oliphant has been appointed referee. Jenkins, the veteran Southland footballer, completed his seventy-first representative match on Saturday last, and his twenty-first season as rep. player Of the thirty-five matches played between Southland and Otago he has only missed one, and thatf owing to his being absent in the north taking part in the interisland match. The following is the war cry of the "Pro-Blacks":— Ka mate, ka mate, Ka ora. ka ora, Ka mate, ka mate, Ka ora, ka ora, Tenei te tangata, Puhuru huru, Nana e piki mai, Whaka whiti te ra. Hupanei, Hupanei, Hupanei, Kaunanei, Whiti tera!

Tie translation is:— "There is going to be a fight between us. May it mean death to you and life to us. We will fight on and on till one side is vanquished. So long as the daylight lasts, we are here to continue the battle, to be either killed or be victorious."