FOOTBALL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4238, 8 October 1892, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

The fallowing ia the report of en np-conotry football match from an :Aust»lian exchange, which shows ~ ® m a T }ly game i 8 progressing ,on . tha other aide";—»a team tll T IS0lv ®? the Newtown : lolantbes came to Penrith to play the iilvo!.? o *i Sa(urdB > lf Wt. Shortly | letter tiie commencement of the came the .loca l team, through the fumbling' j tho opposing Itaolfs wel:e enabled to [score. Mr IP. Freeth, formerly of, Masterton, the umpire, allowed it as' a score, but fch« lolanthes objpeted as la tody.usiDgsome very bad language, .ana demanding that one of their own ! adherents should be entrusted with the whistle; The home team were " ot , °"'^°"® ver » and the game proceeded,the jkick at goal being a failuroi ACtei about ten minutes had .elapsed .and! while play was centred in .{'IT' 1 !} 1 ? u .* rtel ' a blows were Struck by the visitors and returned bv rr.amisnra of the home team, and a geasntf meCee ensued kßtine for some i LTf . J f t l [ ,on « th pettoa %vas restored ana football rs-consntenced. The seconditpell opened with a referee of the : visitors choowng, bltt , few ttingll4 ouly elsjised when one of the lolanthes front up behind a locil player and taking him unawares struoK binj two ™ l^ kW9in t,|u bßok Oi the neck. The game was stopped and Gossrovs demanded that the cowardly pugilist be, taken off. This the oii posile captain declined to sanction IfLfZZ ] °« °l wra "SVng the home team left tjie field, and thus the match was brought tp a disagreeable coniVe cerumly cannot congeatulate Newtown on tbe behaviour ; .of its footballers, some of whom were tbe worse ior liquor on Saturday; the | majority being guilty oi language which gave its utterera the tone of naving jnit vacated The Bocks."