FOOTBALL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3900, 31 August 1891, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

[by diogehes.]

The football match between the printers and the fire brigades, which was to have been played on the Park Oval on Saturday, was abandoned, a neither side could get together a team.

A very successful practice match was played on the Park Oval on Saturday, an excellent display of the game being made.

[ The Post says it is very probable that the representative football teams of Wellington and Wainrapa will meet again before the season closes. The Wairarapa people are anxious that the match should come off either at Masterton or Greytown, hut as several of our best men are unable to get leaye of absence toi take'even a day's trip tip country, the Managing Committee of the Wellington'Bugby Union have decided to invite the country representatives to play at Newtown either on Saturday the sth or Saturday 12th September, the expenses of the visitors to be paid by the Unions here.

A representative football match has been arranged for the Bth September between the Taranaki and Manawatu Unions.

The Excelsiors defeated the Upper Plain boys on Saturday by six points to love.

The match between the Violets and Opaki resulted in a win for the former by three points to ml.

The Athletics defeated the Melrose Club in a Senior Championship match played at Wellington on Saturday by three points to nil.

The smoke concert in connection with the Masterton Football Club has been arranged to be held on Wednesday, September Oth.

In the scratch match played on the Park Oval on Saturday Mr A D'Arcy had one of his fingers broken, Mr C. Bannister's head was severely cut, and several other players were more or less injured.

According to a Nelson paper, salmon have been seen in the river in the JRaf Valley, Pelorus, by an experienced angler. The salmon were placed in the river twelve years ago, but it was feared they had died out.