OLD WAIRARAPA TEAM

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 February 1940, Page 6

OLD WAIRARAPA TEAM

WHICH MET STODDART'S FOOTBALLERS. (By “Blue and Gold.") T. C.. Carterton: In reply to your query the following players represented Wairarapa against Stoddart’s team at Masterton in 1838: Baeks: The late Archie D’Arcy (then a member of the Red Star junior team and in later years an All Black), Udy of Greytown, the late G. H. Smith (afterwards a well known solicitor at Pahiatua). Pani (a well known Masterton player), Joe Perry, Masterton (one of the best backs the Wairarapa has produced), the late Jacob Baumber (one of the founders of the Red Star Football Club, for whom he played, later removing to Carterton where he played with the old Carterton rivals, subsequently becoming a Wairarapa representative and also playing for Wellington); forwards: Charlie Bannister (a forward in the Masterton Club in those days), Bryce of Greytown, the late Bill Day (Masterton), the late Frank Felling (Mast'crton, later coach and player in the Red Star seniors, a Wairarapa and Bush representative). The late Hughie Mitchell (Greytown, Gladstone, Melrose and Wairarapa and Wellington representative who was killed at Gladstone many years ago), the late Charlie Reid of Carterton (one of Wairarapa’s best of all time forwards), Thomas (who played in the Red Star junior team in 1888. being selected along with D’Arcy in the Wairarapa senior team though boil) were still juniors), the late George Welch (of the Masterton seniors, probably the finest dribjbler Wairarapa has ever seen) and the late “Big Bill” Welch (another noted Masterton forward). The. game was won by England by 5 points to 1.