FOOTBALL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2606, 25 May 1887, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

If nnytjiing was needed to prove tbo. popnlarlity of the game of football, the fact that one hundred and fifty players wero engnged 4 in lbe Wairarapa yester-, day with over a thousand spectators enjoying the-fun,; is quite -sufficient to prove that the Rngby game is far ahead of any other sport in the colony, We have old and vonng, males and females getting ;as excited over the rushes, dribbles and kicks of the i players as though their very existence depended on tirt result of the game, and we see docorns and dignified old gentlemen forgetting their, old age and dignity rush down the field yelling liko when an extra smart bit of play has taken ulace. ' Master.

ton wae yesterday , visited by three teams from Wellington, on's aer.ior and two jnnioru, and in every case the

countrymen wero tmocewfnl. Our kickiata are to Iks radiated on their Motoric*, mpre so ut the teams were among the bes| U> b« found. In the Empire C'iKT, ftml this ' fiwfc alom proves the svsjeriorlfcy of tb* country over town pisjrsrs htrtji In and general fcnowlrdga of Up gome. Owing to she ittiimble u«m sm&gementa the mafollss .to b* played on U» two groands In Worksop ron<l, s,ti Mmeqwßtlj the largo number of apwUtor* www divided in their patronage Wki.mnotoh Old* t. Club j This was thamatoh of Ihi dsj, and I '"nth Clubs put their boat roon in s&s ] HiiliJ. Tfc# hf far. iho %goa6 nnd Umieftt M, Imt ttairJ tinifcrru tsnrt BW#rt io&kbifr opponent* to lie ftXMrtan WOfUiy sf the?? liiokfl. The following tlioj

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yards towards Matte rtona lins when th* prettiest bit of pUy yet Men or a filasterton ground took piece, *V. Perry having got the leather, }>st in • short run and pa»wd to O'Connor, whets prewc? h« transferred it to Cox, who in like manner g«v© C. Persy » sfeo*. the latter pamd bficfe to Oox wko v*e colfem) near the Wellington line. Scrimmage* relioe«d - the 'Hits tomihi ■ arily, when JB\ Pelling and W. ?e Tv did some p»*«ing that brought the pieV clobo totlio Wellington line againwbet Ilustso put In- a ihort stm and under the goal by C, V«t t . llichardaon nmfcked hare from whi k (X Peer* kicked into touch. JDny, Kibblowhitc, HouUflow, *n4 O'Coauor woroattho head of* ruah wbioh ag*'n aienaeed the yellow's lins, Cox being collared wilbin a yard of it, when he looked like scoring A scrimmage ensued resulting in theyellow# befogfoKftThe kick outwaa well returned by Polling and ecrimraageo followed in •tho centre of tho field, Cox, F. Puny, and Kibblewbite did 'come passing but the yellowa-wcre : utrmi •«»,, np to their work and carried the pl*y opposite tho Beds goal where isobsc very interesting scriKsraeges ursr® fought. A- good rush soon relieved the lleds tine and the play h & abort time was in "the sokS ©erawrof iha Yellow'* territory. Beri«magaa ib* lowed apposite the "Weliingtoa god, when Cos made a "dash to get orerimfc could not s»et withia. a yard of thr coveted line, and was grassed before lje i ecald pass. Tho danger averted by Faidirock; putting up the twenty.fire Sag, frosa when the yellowß took it to the sent™ in seriirjage, when a long pant ef BiebmborV compelled tho It®3g to femaiawm. 33be kick oqt of C. Perry's was nt«nNd Riebardaon asd - Jowed. 8o«w q«at MNRag wm <fesse between W. and 0. Tpwry' cod JStlere, tlio Uuer Hittkspg intet tomb. Serinisgps *t the contra tellowied, vh«e Fujrbr other got poaaenaion Qkmw m. rtlt,:god pass forward sad; waa &jals4s';' allowed to juim through »1« Issotti withoutoppcMtkaandgFoaad leather behind U»n poet*. The rate** diil not 'acknowledge Ihi appeal art? look the ldok which -wM « ja;*erabla failure. Time m» sfeoriHy aftorwiwdi catted and M«£t«rton were declared 'winners by - three ftiata to One point, now worbg. Cbfeer* w«r* u t, r i.-. ,»| • Jlt | hli o) <i) to tlie train to return lio' TH i l : ou of Tsoibal! was

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