STRUGGLE FOR SUPREMACY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10415, 8 September 1911, Page 3

STRUGGLE FOR SUPREMACY.

CLERKS' ANNUAL FOOTBALL MATCH. The annual football matah between teams representing the Stock and SttatSonj Aganlt® and Dentists, atnd the Banks and Law, was .played on j itfbe old iShewgrounicb, iMasiterton., j yesterday afternoon, in tihe pres-. ence of a irecord attendance of the | public,, a large portion of .which, were todies. The former team wore black amid iwhlte, and the latter black, with la few variegated tunics thro win in.. Banks' and Law wen tilie -toss, and elected, to play -with, the siun at their hacka Within a veiry short time (the. blackis were twice compelled to force. In the first quarter Thytnne isoored for the 'wMtes. Theltory was xmoomverted 1 . The second speM was jnore exoiftiiinig on, account of "Bob" MeKenaie, ,s&ipper of the Macks', putting in .same great dribbling rushes. He iscored two tries' within ij, few minutes of each other, but neither was converted. A. Williams also added a. try ifor -whites m this quarter, and ha® time 'sounded with \ .the spores even. In the third qnar-, /tier, {Stock ' and Station, had the beat of the play, and they increased their score by three; Milne iscoring in, the corner, after the opipoaiing full back / had mulled the leather. The 1 last quarter was a -strenuous (struggle ' for supremacy. The Mlacks worked ' hard to "get even," but their _ opponents were equally determined', 'and the whjiistle sounded with the scores in, favour of Stock and StaitStoin. by nine points to three. Mr 'A. Chapman' gave every .satisfaction as j referee. .".,'■