FOOTBALL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4402, 25 April 1893, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

BY DAMOCLES. The following paragraph by "Mela," referring to theStar-Greytown match, appears in the Greytown Standard:— " And of the spectators, what can be said. I hope for the credit of the Colony that nowhere else can be found a crowd who, with very few exceptions, could bo so lost to all sense of fairplay and decency as to act as they did. The hootiug and jeering at tho visitors was kept up in an almost ceaseless flow the whole time of the match, and the foul language of some of them would in most places be punished by some months' imprisonment. Every allowance can be made for a crowd barracking for their own townsmen, but no excuse can be offered for hootine and insulting language used against visitors 1 " To say tha least it is ; a very exaggerated statement. There was no foul language used, although the onlookers did get somewhat excited, and the very objectionable practice of" barracking was indulged in too freely, At anyrato if " Meta" was present at the matches played in Greytown last season, he would remember that his townsmen behaved far worse tban ever the Masterlon" barrackers'' did on Saturday last or any other time, and before finding fault" he should remove the beam from his own eye before attempting to take the mota from his brothers."

Tbe following team will represent the North Wairarapa against the South Wairarapa on Saturday next on the Masterton GroundAgnew R. Thompson, Fowler, Hudson! Holujwood, Wrigley, De Jouxj

Watson, Malcolm, Giay,T. Welch, J. Morris, Bemeni, Iggulden, Wilsone, Emergencies: Cashion, W, Karaliana, McKillop,