FOOTBALL.

Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 206, 14 July 1893, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

The weather last Saturday prevented footballers from turning out, and there seems to be a lack of interest in tlie game at present. There is now, however, a certainty of a Wairoa representative team being sent to town to meet the Auckland representatives in a few weeks’ tiiue, and it is hoped that players will rouse themselves and go into regular practice. The Wairoa Union looks to those who are likely to be chosen as representatives to make themselves as fit as -possible by regular practice and training so that the Wairoa may make a good stand against Aucklaud. This our men can do if they will tut practice with hearty determination. Footballers, with any patriotism in them, will turn out to the practice matches to give the repireseutatives a good hardy training, even though they themselves do not expect to be chosen. Row, hoys, put some life into it and send "u-champions to town with a feeling that ID" " 11 take a lot of putting down. The they wn- f O -jnorrow are given below teams chosen u.. --i particularly reand every one name... paddock toquested to be present in morrow afternoon, wet or dry. Probables A. Smith, full-back; T. Elliott, -V, Johnston, and Bntland, tliree- , Ten. Hitching, H. Lowi'ie, and Urn. Bitching, halves ; F. Barker, C. and F. Molloy, Poland, E. T. Keane, Fla veil, and J. Neill, forwards.

Possibles. ■ —• G-. Campbell, full-back; JSmith, .aiumoiicl, and O’Brien, threequarters; W. Smith, Main, and Nolan, halves; Yeale, Nelson, Golloyj, Harkness, Bonella, G. Nield, Lee, and Keegan, forwards. Emergencies : Backs, F. Walker and Mor-rison ; forwards, Legge, Cunningham, and D. Campbell. The New Zealand Representatives were severely beaten in their second match with New South Wales, the scores being 25 points to 3. The team has evidently had a good deal of the stuffing knocked out of them ; five such games in ten days is too much for mortal endurance.