FOOTBALL.
•[BKDAMOaiSS] The Park Oval will bo occupied tomorrow afternoon by the first Orientals, whowillttß usual, pit themselves against a team of non-descripts who may be on,the ground.
The remaindor of the Oriental Club will play o'n tho Masterton Ground to-morrow, and the teams chosen appears in White's window., The second Stars (Wellington) havo challenged the second Orientals for a match to be played at Masterton on Quoon's Birthday. Tho first of the local Club are to play their namesakes at Wellington on the same day,
A mooting of the Dunedin senior clubs and the leading juniors has' been called at Dunedin this week to consider the relation of the Otago Union to the New Zealand Union. It is stated that the leading clubs propose to form a new Union, with a viow to coining into line with the other Unions of the colony.
A Masterton gontleman who witnessed the Potone-Poneke heat on Saturday last, informs me that Hudson is not showing anything like tho form of last season,' The other : backs seomod to be jealous of his play, and he seldom has a show to shine. JlcKemsio, on the other hand, is playing better than ever.and he completely outrivalled any forward on the ground, The Petone team play a rough and selfish game, and aro not nearly as strong as was anticipated at the commencement of the season,
Tho Te Ore Ore Club have a propective membership of a bout fifty, aud all are invited to attend the first practice to ho 'held at Te Ore Ore on Saturday afternoon. Both natives and whites are included, and Mr Pratt expects to have a fairly strong representative team by the time the cup contests begin.
The football writer in the ■' -taenia]', commenting on the match between the Star and Greytown teams, says: —" I have no reuson to think that the Southerners could not defeat the I Stars when having a full muster of ' senior players, although the backi division of the Stars appears to ho equal to any in the field this season, but their strength in this portion is absorbed by the weakness of their forwards." While allowing for the absence from the forwards of Pearsc and McKillop, I think it would be hard to tind a more compact or fastor set of men in any team in the Valley, and although Greytown were certainly strong in this division, the Stars were equal in every point on Saturday,
The following team will represent the Oriental Ist fifteen in a match to be played agninst allcomers on the Park Oval on Thursday next. T. Harland, Jackson (captain) A. Bennett, Bagge, L. 'Richards, C, Webb, C. Wellington, W. Warner, B. Bennett, A. Doughty, E. Sayers, H. Walker, S. Shepherd, H. Marsh, R. Finlayson, Emergencies: Felliugham, Henry, J. Wickens, R, Cameron. The team is subject to alteration. A meeting of tho Oriental Football Club will be held at the Empire Hotel on Thursday evening at 8 o'clock,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4720, 16 May 1894, Page 3
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495FOOTBALL. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4720, 16 May 1894, Page 3
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