FOOTBALL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3001, 12 September 1888, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

The Secretary of the Bugby Union (Mr P. P, Webb) received the ing telegram from Mr Lilly wbiteyosttp' day morning Will play for £IQO ut Newton. No Saturday left. PM§> Napier, ISth 5 Masterton, 17th • Christ' churcli, 20th; Dunedin, 22nd and 26th; Ohristchurch ,29 th jand perhaps Hawcra, 2nd October." •Mr Webb lias sent a final messago to Mr Lilly, white asking him if he will accopt a guarantee of £SO.

Wo (Sydney Mail) havo written occasionally, and perhaps, to a certain extent, intelligently and intelligibly, on the subject of drop kicking in Rugby; and, now that tho season is almost over, it is worth noticing that in the principal matches playod here against the Britishers, eight points out of a total, of sixteen have been obtained by. dropping from the fiold. Colquboun is the only player who ' consistently makes use-of drop kicking, and the result is that he has! mado fifty per cent of all the points scored in Sydney against tho visiters. Despito this iact, ■ drop-kicking is becoming a lost art, and Ktigby here threatens to go back to what tho original game of ball was when tb players simply ran with the ball im did not. kick at all. Most of tho Inching that is done is punting, although Rule 5 says that a goal may be- obtained by any sort of a kick except a punt. Tho usefulness of drop-kicking was thoroughly exemplified by the grand goal which Stoddart potted on: Saturday, fully half tho longth of tho field, but such lessons are thrown away 'on many players, ' '

A Sydney paper remarks as follows on the match between and ' Englishmon-The Britisliefs pore, grinations at Batkurst were not of that character which is calculated to improve the nioralj tendency of foot- . ball. Bough play has been conspicuous by its almost entire absence in tho metropolis this season, and it certainly seems derogatory to the wolfaro of the game to havo to ; chroniolo . ' its appearance with tho country folkA The Bathurstites wero doubtless- ai£y inspiring body of sturdy propellers ® the oval, but tlisy reckoned without - tho "goose that laid the golden eggs," and in resorting to rough tactics they- ■ simply played into the hands' of the Britishers, who, when needs be, can handle their opponents with an amount of roughness which would make them remember the experiences of arougli game of football. Tho Englishmen after tho first fewraiflutea play, measured their adverearics and scored in occasional try to keep up the excitement of the 1600 spectators '■ who were present, and when timo was called the scores wero [ English, men twenty points. Bathurst ten points. : m