FOOTBALL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3232, 17 June 1889, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

Masterton v, Red Stars. The first senior Cup match of'the season 1889, was played between the above teams on .the Star ground on Saturday last. Despite the very cold drizzling rain there was a largo numbor of spectators 011 the ground, Both teams yim about the strongest that coultf be put in field, Mastofton having the advantage in weight, their stalwart forwards gaining a lot of ground in the first spell by their "pushing powers" in tho scrums. In the second spell, however, the sturdy lads more than held their own, as was very .noticeable towards the end of the game, when thoir line was thrice menaced, but each time by working togetner they succeeded in averting danger. No doubt the sloppy ground prevented the Star backs from doing their usual lot of runniug, and had the weather been fine the game would undoubtedly have been one of the fastest and most interesting ever played oa Masterton grouud, as the teams were reckoned as well matched, the smartness of the Stars making up for any deficiency they had in weight. The play was principally confined to the forwards, and though'at time/ the game was fast, it was greatly marred by tho frequent necessity for enforcing the free-kick penalties, that are now such a marked feature of the game, Mr G. H. Smith acted ss referee, and Messrs IfcKenzie and Williams as umpires, Play started' booh after the

appointed time, with D'Arcy for tlie Stars (Reds) kicking off, Masterton (colors) defending the, southern goal, Hill returned "the kick off, and Thompson obtained possession, kicking into touch. Again Thompson got the leather, kicked, and following up well, .".spoilt Hill's return. The | uolors forwards "made some short dribbling rushes, and worked their opponents into dangerous ground, where Bannister lacked hard and Hawke forced down, D'Arcy kicked off, and Joe Perry essayed a dodgy run, but was stopped by Patterson. A splendid rush by the Color forwards was baulked by Watson, who punted into touch. On the throw out,"Masterton -obtained a free ldclt for an infringement of the rules, and Hirschberg kicked into the • Red's territory, whew Whatman obtained a mark, and placed for C. Perry, who made a splendid effort, the ball going about a yard from the outer post, Give and take play between Thompson and Hill followed, Ellers eventually punting out, A fast rush by Masterton again invaded, the Stars twenty-five, from which J. Wallace kicked to Patterson, who punted well down the field, Hirschberg looked dangerous, but Thompson was instrumental in removing the danger. J. McKenzie and 0. Peroycame through with the ball, which 0, Perry obtained and kicked to D'Arcy who marked and kicked well up the field, . E. .Polling- now commenced a run but was ruled, offside, and a free kick resulted, Hirschberg placed for Perry, who failed in tbokick and the Beds were forced down. Souie good scrums wore now formed, the Beds heeling out Patterson passed to Thompson who ran along the line, and kicked; Hirschberg marked, and Patterson kicked to Nini, who essayed a nice run, Patterson again passed to Thompson, who taking it cleatf, evaded several of his opponents, but was brought down by C. Perry. The ball being again in play, Thompson made a flying kick the Beds following up well and menaced the Colors' line, Joe Perry relieved the pressure, and Hirschberg made a strong run but was grassed by' Welch, A scrum followed in which a regular trial of strength occurred, the Stars holding their own splendidly, gaining loud cheering from the spectators. The Reds now got a free kick, D'Arcy sending the leather down to Wallace, Another' free lack was given to the Colors, aiid Joe Perry kicked into Star territory where some very interesting play was seen, Whatman nearly getting over, A scrum was formed on the Slar line, but some grand piny by Iggulden and Welch took the ball down the field, Hawlte made a good run passing several, and kicked well into touch. Another free-kick was gained by Masterton, and C. Perv newly sent it over the bar. Thompson kicked off, and the ball was taken on by Watson, when Whatman made a run and passed to Nini, who hold the ball, giving the Stars a free kick. D'Arcy kicked to Hirschberg who ran, but was stopped by the opposing forwards. Pelling took a flying kick, and from the return Patterson marked, and. the whistle was blown at the Star twentyfive flag, •' No time was lost in resuming play. Masterton kicked off, Thompson returned the kick, and D'Aroy made a splendid run, not being collared till Hill was reached; Ellors punted high, and the Bed forwards getting under, carried the play iu close proximity to the line, Hirohborg, by good play, relieving the pressure, Pelling marked and placed lor D'Arcy who made a good attempt at goal, foroing Masterton down, From tho kick off, Hawke ran well up and kicked. Pelling followed up well, and transferred tho play close to the opposing line, and after some rattling play of both forwards, o,' Perry marked, The forwards now made some fine lpose rushes, the play going from one end to the other, Day and Bannister at last coming down tho field with the ball between them. The Stars responded, and Pelling, from a free kick, punted high, and Hirschberg ran down and passed to Perry, who was spoilt by Thompson, Hirschberg agaiu got the leather, but had to bow to Thompson, W. Welch now came through the scrum, and Nini tried a run, but was stopped by Ereeth, who dribbled out of touch, Good passing between Patterson, Thompson, and D'Arcy took tho ball down the field. A rush by Masterton carried the play right along the line, and Whatuian picked up and ran, but was collared by Hawke about a yard from the goal line. A scrum followed, and the Stars were soon out of danger, but some splendid passing J)y tho Masterton.backs agaiu made things uncomfortable for the Beds, Nini nearly getting over, Again the Stars by rattling play relieved their line, when Whatman, being collared, passed to Joe Perry, who by pretty play, got over the lino, drawing.first blood. It was placed for 0. Perry, who safely registered the three points. D'Arcy kicked off, Hill returned, and fillers passed to Thompson who made a good run, and Masterton getting a free kiolt, Ellers marked and placed for Thompson, but the kick was spoiled by the opposing forwards. Hirschberg received the ball, and kicked to pelling, who dribbled well. More free kicks on both Rides followed, and a good rush by the Star forwards, Freeth and Hoar conspicuous, carried tho ball to Hirschberg, who received, but was stopped by Thomas. Wallace received tho pass,' but Thompson collared well, The forwards, however, were not to be denied, and from a splendid rush,. J. Bannister got over tho line, 0, Perry failed to convert it. Another rush by Master, ton resulted in the ball being kicked hard over the line, and J, Bannister, following up, tombed down, but Hawke appealed that the ball had struck the spectators, who were standing on the field. The Umpires, after a good deal of wrangling, upheld the appeal, and immediately afterwards tho whistle was blown, tho score standing Masterton 4 points Stars nil.

, Those who distinguished themselves most for the winners were (forwards)'J. Bannister, Wallace, andG. Welch, (kaclts) J. Perry, C. Perry, and Hirschberg, while for the Stars, Percy, Welch, and Thomas (forwards), and Thompson, D'Arcy, Patterson, and Hawke, (backs) were prominent,

The junior cup match between the Star second' fifteen and To Ore Ore, on the Worksop Road ground, ended in an easy victory for the Maorics by nine points to one. We understand a protest has been lodged against the Te Ore Ore team on. the ground that they played more of last year's players than they led the Rugby Union to believe would be the case, on the strength- of which statement {bey lyere' clawed- m junior? instead of seniors, ' • " :

Tbe senior cup match between

Greytown and Carterton- ended in a tie, each side scoring a try. ; > v The Grevtown Fire Brigade team \ beat the second fifteen of Greytown Club for the junbr cup.Wellington •v. Melrose. - The ; match for the Championship between • these Clubs was played at Newtown Pari! on Saturday, and resulted iu a : victory for the former by two tries to %) nil. , St Patriok's College y;.-Melrose' second Junior Oup . Match, 'llie former won by fourteen points to nil. The Athletics beat Epuni by -21 points to nil. v Distressed Aristocrats- . Sir Francis Osborniuinear relative, lof the Duke of St. mss, is working • ; for 4s a day in a sawmill, at Aclou, ; Florida. Mr Wolff, a gradus-te of Oxford, wbo.se brother. is Sir-Henry. Druinnioud Wolff,' the, Minister; at ■ Teheran, is a porter in a wholesale , grocery at Jacksonville, Florida. So far the colonies can " go'as good as" . America j but in' the' 'matter of foreign nobility the States '• sail away." Baron de Gi'imen is publishing a fashion paper; Prince Karl Ludwig, of Wurtemberg, is a dentist in New Orleans; Baron von Vietinghoff is a riding master; Count Meusdoi'f and Baron von Velth'eim are also : riding masters; Baron von Graberg-is a brewer j Baron Radowilz, whose JJi brother is a German Ambassador, is a ' coal dealer; Prince Eristoff has just escaped the American law courts, and fed with <£3 in his pocket—which he borrowed, by the way. They don't all go to America,: however. The other day Viscount Mandeville, whose wife is American, and was officiating at tlie ioe carnival at the time, held a meeting of his creditors and disclosed the painful fact that he owes and has only £I2OO to pay it with. He is tho eldest son of the Duke of Manchester, who has appaiently washed his hands of him, for he refuses to interfere, and the creditors may . , " whistle" for their money. As usual '. horseracing is the cause of the ruin, As will bo remembered, tho Dnko of Manchester paid New Zealand, ■ . where he has property, a visit some seven years t ago. The case of Sir Claude Champion de Grespigny somewhat-worse. SirfClaude >vas .. bankrupt in 1871, when his debts . wero £4J2I), and his ; assets of "unascertained valuo," On that,<jfc - occasion the family came to tho rescue, and in 1888—after twelve years—paid up the full amount, 20a in the pound, and the bankruptcy was annulled. Since • 1883, however, Sir Claude lws been " going it", again, and now tho liabilities amount to 1 £12,539 and the assets £392. Sir Claude states that he has been spend-, ing £4OOO a year during the last six • years. He has managed to get thtoiigh 1 the money in varioiiß ways. He has 1 gone up in a balloon, has steeple--1 chased, and has acted as amateur ' hangman at Newcastle, which little ! privilege ho secured by a tip of £5 to 1 the, hangman, His family estates 1 consists of ground rents at Peckbam > aad Camborwell, which brings in 1 £7OO a year, subject to mortgages, of 5 course. He is 42 years of a«e, and ' claims to bo descended from the ancient French family of Champion, qt . chevaliers in the fourteenth ceutury " i in Normandy, and afterwards Sieurs j do Crespigny in tlie parish of Vier. . 1 ville, The family bccamo Protestantaw 1 iu the seventeenth century, and came j to England at the Invocation of the e Edict of Nantes. His motto is, y Mm Bil>i coimia recti—A mind selfi, irectitiule." r i" —— ' t ' Electric Lighting. i [By T, M'Kintion Clark.] The question of street lighting is e very properly exercising tho intellects I of the city authorities just now, l although it appears to some people, e that questions relating to street lighte ing should bo considered in the 1 summer season, and improvements t made roady for the long evenings of e winter. Certainly Molbourno city is • not well lighted, but whether the o remedy lies in electric lighting is not g by any means proved, It appears o that the city lighting is accomplished K undor a dual control, The corporation V provides pillars, lanterns, and burners; e the Gas Company provides the gas. • It is easily demonstrable that the gas 0 oompany is providing gas of from 18 g to 21 candle-power superior to London--1 gas, which is only 1G to 17 caudlejfc j . power, and with such y appliances only ore needed to secure ■ l well and efficiently lighted stioets, 1 And if gas is used, we have ample e guarantee of long continuance, If, by 1 a low tender, electrio lighting'flukes' in, it is evidently tho hope of electric J light speculators that, onco in, they S oan gradually raiso the price to paying i point, and when it .is at a paysblo s figure it will bo very much more costly , than gas, and very much less reliable. i A railway lighting ongineer once ' remarked, " I profur to burn my t carbon straightbut this tendency j is not noarly so marked a« when wo • are spending our owh money as when 1 wo are disbursing other people's. 3 The London authorities have had : i many electrio installations, but 1 nothing permanent oxcept gas, No 3 English city has adopted electric • light throughout, except the small 1 town of Barnefr,- and it has been - . thrice in total darkness during tho i winter evenings. Leamington city . adopted it in part, but discarded it I for high power gas lamps. Birmingi ham, Manchester and Liverpool aro 3 still lit by gas, as aro Edinburgh arriMk i Glasgow, It would be a good sigi^v ■ and augury for tho better lighting of' 1 this oity if our able and energetic • Town Clerk would invito the • cognoscenti of tin Gas Company to,^' • confer with the public Gas Committee! * . I as to the best means of improving i upon tho iniserablo contrivances ' which new disfigure the lamp I columns, giving ns in their stead , 1 high power gas-btaiers for our principal city ways, ■-Jrho Gas Company docs not lack enterprise or ability, and tho prosperity of a gieat public company is closely associated with tho general good,—Eveuing Standard, Divorce in the United States It is not just to conclude (says tho New York World), as an eminent ecclesiast has recently done, that this country is "going to seed" because divorce is more prevalent hero than - in some other lands, The morality the homo happiness, the cducatiA and care of ohildren, and' all tEo virtues and other beneficient results that flow from the conjugal relation as enjoined by religion and established by law, are more fully exempli- ■ fied in the American States wherein divorce is permitted: for several reasons than in most of. tho countries where it is forbidden. A tree is ' (cnown by its fruits, and"a custom should be judged : by its. general ~ results, not by theoretical' objections nor .exceptional; abuses, In; the % '''■ ; statistics of divorW for the past '

twenty yjaars, just published by the -• Commissioner of Labor, it nppears that 66 per cont of tho whole were granted to wives,largely for desertion, cruelty, and drunkenness, with unfaithfulness constituting only about J 7 per cent, of the whole number. It 1 issuroly at least a fair question lor tscussion whether tho welfare, of ,j ciety or the sacred institution of ] ;■ houie requires tlwt wives having such t grounds of complaint should be bound s for ever in iron chains to tlioso who have forfeited their right to the sacred and protectivo title of husband. , Merely frivolous grounds of divorce, or tho'se based ou fickle selfishness j ' should not be allowed anywhere. But ] the public sentiment which sustains t more than one of divorce in some of our most enlightened commonwenlths is not to be lightly condeaned as corrupt, or retrogressive, v Tbc report of Ml* C.u roll D. Wtight, Commissioner of Labor (says the 'Vs Nashville American), on the statistics # of marriage and divorce shows that j 328,716 couples have, during the last twenty yours wearied of conjugal bonds and found relief therefrom in tho laxity of divorce laws and the j complaisance of tho Courts. We hardly think there can bo anything very definite learned from an analysis of tho causes assigned for tho granting of divorces, because of the ease with Jfchicli frauds are perpetrated in this of cases. When both parties , weary of an uncoiigonial union it is easy to make tho proof 'necessary to ( bring the caso within the statute, with the assistance of a well-read and unscrupulous divorco lawyer, The i husband frequently submits patiently j to charges of cruelty, desertion, j neglect, or anything else in order to end a relation mutually unsatisfactory, ( and the wifo does tho 6ame. Divorces ' are also frequently obtained by fraud, , whon ono of the parties remove to another State and becomes a resident i there, the other party being made defendant to a divorco suit by publi cation, trumped-up charges proved by £W Btibdorned witnesses, a divorce granted and the complainant, married again without tho defendant in this mookery ; lawsuit oven hearing of the case or having an opportunity to repel the charge?. The facility with which divorces are obtained in the United States is tlie chief cause for the lai'«e numbor that are granted, and the ease with which matrivnouial bonds may be «vored is at least as much a cause as is the result of unhappy marriages.