FOOTBALL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3880, 7 August 1891, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

[By Diogenes.] The match between the Masterton and Te Ore Ore Clubs, to be played to-morrow, promises to be very interesting. Of course there ip no difficulty in picking tha stronger team. There is only tbe off chance of a repetition of the last match of the season last year, when the yellows were put down by Carterton in a most approved style. The representative match between tbe Wairarapa and Bush Unions will in all probability be played on Saturday, August 15. A team from the Whareama Club is about to tour the Wairarapa. In a match with the Greytown Fire Brigade Club on Thursday next tbe latter will be represented as follows : Full-back: J. Phillips; three quarters: Falkoner, Quid, Hoar ; ball backs:

A. Maguire, Baum er. Duff; forwards —Ferriok, Gray, Quin, Leach, Connell, Ferguson, Welch, and OUiver.

The Secretary of the Palmerston North Football Club writes to the Wellington Evening Press as follows :—ln your issue of 30th ult. under the heading of " Football,'' you give an account of the Palmerston Te Ore Ore match, no doubt supplied toyou byacerlain memberof the latter team, L 8 I notice seli praise is by no means lacking in the report. I think it only fair to my club to contradict some of the statements made. Firstly we won by 5 points to nil, not 4 points as stated by you. Secondly, every man we played was a member of our first fifteen. We had no Fielding reps, no. Canterbury rep, and as the Te Aute man mentioned has been a resident in Palmerston for the past seven or eight months, and haß played in all our matches, I think we are entitled to play him. Nor did we have everything " nicely Salted " and in "apple-pie orde r ," to quote from your account, for the - writer, knowing from past experience what the Te Ore Ore team was, knew that we had not to meet anyihing extraordinary. It seems to show a great want of courtesy to speak of a defeated team in this manner, but when a fifteen cannot take a " licking," and wilfully malign the victors, who, I may say, treated them with all hospitality, what can they expaot ?