FOOTBALL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4457, 29 June 1893, Page 3

FOOTBALL.

"Our Boys." Tho victory of the New Zsaland football team in their first match is very satisfactory to tho Colony, and must be very pleating to the Union Company as showing that " Oui Boys" fared well on the passage after all. The fact that they were able not only to play a niatoh on the day of their arrival, but to win it by an eight to nil victory, speaks volumes, either for tho paßsage or for 11 Our Boys." 2»ea and spielers and the bunklcss floor having spurcd them, we hope "Our Boys" will not spare themselves. The • endurance whicb laughed at discomfort for five days and came up smiling and lit in the afternoon, alter arriving in the amall hours, may be relied on to give a good account of itself. Thoir behaviour in the match speaks for itself admir-, ably. Without practice together, without their shore-legs, without their night's rest, without experience of the slightly different ifew Soutu Wales rules, they faced the position with indomitable pluck. They begun coolly on the defensive; they stood with good temper the punishment their ignorance of the straugeiules brought them; and then pulling themselves together won a brilliant victory, not allowing the adversary 10 score a single point. All New Zealand this morning at breakfast says '' Bravo." N.Z. Times. Uru, the well-known Native footballcrof the Kaiapoi Club, Canterbury, who formerly played for Greytown, is now a resident of Wellington, and will play for the Poneke Club. The Otago Bugby Union have decided to write to the Auckland, Hawke's B3j' Taranaki aud Wellington Unions, asking whether it will be convenient for them to meet an Otago team towards the end of the season, The Oriontiilsare arranging a match with the United Blacksmiths of the town, to be played on a Thursday afternoon. The Oriental Football Club has made a challenge to play the Printers on Thursday next. The cballinge has been accepted,and, all being well, tho game will eventuate. Printers for ever! The following is the teifm of the United Greytown Football Club which will play the Stars at Mosterton on the Oval, on Saturday next:—H. Udy, Jackson, Hawkins, Faulkner Maguire, Hawke, Tate, Mitchell, 0. and J, Heard, B, and D. Udy, Welch, Dockery, and Connolly, Emergincies, Backs, Knowlcs, Forwards, O. Udy, Oliver and Feirick. A brake will leave tho Post Office corner at one o'clock.