FOOTBALL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4832, 22 September 1894, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

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The Wairarapa representative team to meet New South Wales on i Tuesday will be chosen to-day. The local captains, Messrs D'Arcy, Wilsone and Pratt will go to Carterton to meet tlie Southern skippers,'

The application of the Grey town Club for the transfer of Ealkner and McCarty from'the Kotahitangi and Featlierston Clubs was not granted at a meeting of delegates held at Carterton last evening.'

: Mr P. C, freetli has resigned from the Secretaryship of the Wairarapa Rugby Union, and Mr" A. E. D'Arcy has been appointed in liis place.

It is stated that Cookroft lias! accepted a permanent position near Masterton, and although it is rather' late this year, his inclusion will materially strengthen. Masterton football ranks next season.

The Sydney papers to hand are all highly delighted over the victory of their men against South Canterbury, and put down the losses 'in tho North Island to severe weather and sloppy grounds. Ono paper says; "New South Wales has at last played upon a dry ground, and as a result won their first, and may it not be their last, football match. Our men showed their speed, and completely eclipsed the Timaruvians by '23 points to nil, After sucli a brilliant, victory the remaining matches should be ours," Another journal, which bythe-way, is edited by our old Masterton friend, Sydney H, Wickerson, is not so confident, and says: "As many are inclined to the opinion that " our boys" have shaken themselves together, and are on tho high road to further victories, it is just as well to point out the class of team thoy met, so that their admirers will not build up their hopes too high, Last month South Canterbury sent their representative team to 'tho North Island on a touv, I during which ,they played five matches, lost five, and scored six points against 81. Wairarapa beat them by 36 to nil, Wellington 17 to nil, Manawatu 13 to 3, Wanganui 9 to nil, and Hawkes Bay Gto 3. Tho N.S.W, team which visited New Zealand in 188G only won two i matches, viz., at Wairarapa and Nelson, and the present team has a very good show of winning at least 1 three, as tho West Coast team and the Marlborough and Nelson com- ■ bination are not playing up to representative form this season,"