FOOTBALL NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1413, 25 June 1883, Page 2

FOOTBALL NOTES.

Once agijin have the Mfsierton Footballers met theirold opponents, and onco again liavo they come off second best. Such a roault'is -at flrst ainhfc a very 'diai couragingonVto our localplayora. They, liave to all' appearance kept up practice assiduously this season, and the .two previous matches with' Greytown . showed that Masterlon was by no means inferior,' Mastertou drew the. List match with and though the scores bllie' Wellington s raatoh on the Quieen's Birthday were to the credit ef that Clubj yot it was generally acknowledged that tho Masterlon men wero suporior. That they had bad luck is not denied. .What yap the result of all this 1 Why, it was'.tp give the Masterlon. men, a: pretty good; opinion of themselves. They thought, it was in them to win the next match at all events, and consequently the practising was kept up. with but an mdifforent Kpirit, hot that there wet'o small'musters,' but the. work those present went.jn .for was not half so useful as thai doiie itrthe early part of -the aeasoni ; i Passicjyujf'' lately received more attention thai iffi)bling, which latter is without doubt too key the Greytown men used iii .drawing Mas 'terfon's tleth bn Saturday';? the Master ton forwards have got too self opiniatod, They say, " we can play as good a forward • game as troy other Club, and we'can doW. afford to slack off and give the baoks praotice," or in other words, "the other . oluba"'scored but we wera best! N6 r doubt"that was i pleasant thought wh'orewith to solace themselves, but the •vanity thereof, is, it iB to be hoped, now fully apparent;. That haß been.their, motto lot, the last; month—since May { ; 24. r/Thejr killed tho goose,,whicli laid tile golden egg, for everyone who watched the previous iraatches this . not-: haveJjfailed- ;to: useful work of the forwards. Now; is the result of Saturday's match a benefit'.to the Masterlon teami or a misfortline li.i'ltl seehiß that'moßt of the 1 players look-it as the laltor. That only,, boars out what ia : written above, viz;that tli^y'thodgliV'f themselves good ' etiough'' for 1 Pride cometh before destruction,, &0.,_ has' been; but too' < l { Tho l match on Saturday proved one'thingj and only one—"Greytown with practice. r better withoutVpraqiiice" —j proposition which any of tlie'fifteori wouldhave laughed at before the match. But if thoy will carefully! compare, clues of practice they have gone/in for since May 24th, and that of the previous; six .weeks, they will-see vwhat is meant by "practice;". ;What; by the match?" I "answer" "no'tmrig. 1 The beating iB only a drop in tho bucket, which is, as yet, far from overflowing, ■Tho Cup did;. n j>t}depend on this match, neither will it on the nbx't." Has Mastertotf wined anything ? Muoh every way. The play of the .Masterton, v team T was thoroughly iaiftedi by .the .GrtytbwnSfdft) wards. The weak points are now apparent, and tho faults to which all seemed blind before' ;aro npr (thrown member of tho team,. The loss of the initcU ' iB; I think', attributable to the want of playing together among the forwardsroauiwdp) by nbtkeeplng;np:dtib. bling practice, (2nd) by not turning out to Saturday, ; (Brd) by not keepvnet in inrttvldual'forto. Had Maslerton won would ! ii haveincreaied'thei'rßhowforahetupt \Vho.cw'eotpientiou«ly say ye»? T|i§ individual form of the Greytown mot? : pittioijlatlj. MpMially y; last expreß3edtwirdißgUßtlin J unmisUlhD}e' terms at the result of the match, but

to ROj.iD stro||fjpr i ijian oyer, sijl tpe th&lfaeto jrh'i bad mwToaiwd !?i z, »;'^P men Vl<ni&])y• trbulile ihW form, aljfl whohavii kept tip tlio practices! These members, and in fact tho . whole. tettinrßnbuld ii'oiij riiaU(S up*'tljeir wtfd; taVerii'iiifor their wjna,* Alrijhfrieii' tlieir grog: .'iiilj V[ee(], and ,ni alee, ut p,. : t.th ej i* riii in tl Dot to miss'a practice. Uudur cumstances Masterton may-cp, fearlessly loMh'e' frbuV'ljiH iviilimil it Saturilay'd vperformance will oil(y : I o 1 i-.• F-V>iV'3l."' ii/as-! •tertoh footbhlloVs bavin 'i'i ij? ii(V. ; ;;siiev/n' thonißolvesjlENi andthoyu ilfturuly'iiot 1 bo found wanting,—Goal, r , „ .. ; ~1! LK-.'B *• ' ' ,f i

Thp St says;; the ordinary general mooting of die! Great Eastern Steamship Company, (Limited),'the other day, it camo out 'that tho earnings for tho past yean amounted to tho sum of ,£l3 ns against expended iji; n)ainfaiilencc,.i(jc.; » But oven if thpy. wished to ;do soothe' \yind'iip^for,! fi. Binglo' shilling' is dtio fi'6pi lt,',t6.ariyi Jrfcditor,Th.e ilirectora are:now con-; .sideriiig a;' proposal for employment, 1 which will/ nt least save tho • cost'oE •maintenance ; arid it is hoped, in ;the; • , meantime, that the '.increased size of ; "'tho ships now boing built is in favor of. the Great Eastern.'