FOOTBALL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9179, 31 August 1908, Page 3

FOOTBALL.

"i'lonourd were evenly divided in the two Wairarapa-Wellington repre:ontutive school matches at the Athletic Park yesterday morning;. In the Mecondary school game Wellington biit Wairarapa by o points t.-> nil. 3fc) 3 scored Wellington's try. Play tJfjughout was close, fast and strenu*ouj, Wairarapa were inferior in the bask division as they were superior -forward. They easily outweighed ithttir opponents. The primary schools contest went almost entirely in favour of the hoavier Wairarapa team. In the first spell Manning'scored a ■try, which Nix converted, and after the interval Nix kicked a goal from « mark. Wellington did not score, •and the game ended —Wairarapa, 8; Wellington, 0.

Sr Tdl-SGBAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION. DUNEDIN, August 29. Supporters of the Northern Unif.n •game are hopeful of gaining a strong looting here before the season is o«er. One of the promoters of the game says:—"We have some forty players, including inm 7 oi' the best men here, who have intimated their intention of playing the game. We propose running it on purely amateur Une3. and intend commencing a practice match in another week. We 'have secured the Caledonian Ground, •and will play Wellington on it on October 3rd, and also on the Saturday following. We hope to arrange a match against a Mairi team for 'the Saturday after that. On the last Wednesday in September we play a •match at Invercargill, and will pay .players for tima lost while away from Dunedin. We are not going in for professionalism. If the New Zeailand Union decide to improve the present game we shall be satisfied, —bu£ in, the meantime we intend doling our best to push the new game.'"