FOOTBALL

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4183, 4 August 1892, Page 2

FOOTBALL

[By Diogenes,] Mr Chapman, of Dunedin a recognised authority on football matter}, says there is really nothing newin the proposal to send a team to England. Since 1889, when a number of speculators, mostly hailing from Hawkes Bay and Wellington, were baulked in their little game of making use of the footballers in the colony to servo their own ends, he had been aware that no stone would be left unturned to send a team to Gnat Britain, or, indeed, to Jerusalem, if there was money to be made by so doing. Mr Hoben's high falutin about the prospects of an American tour made one laugh, He never heard of Kugby being played by Yale and Harvard, nor in Canada, and he thought that Mr Hoben had been drawing on his imagination, It was almost impossible to send a team of amateur footballers to tho Old Country, and if Canterbury, Otago, and Southland players were not included, the team would not be representative—only a North Island team, in fact,

Arrangements are being made for a representative .matoh between the Wellington and Wairarapa Bcbools at an early date.