CAMBRIDGE.

Waikato Times, Volume VII, Issue 377, 13 October 1874, Page 2

CAMBRIDGE.

A iMATOH at foot-hill was played at Cambridge on Saturday afternoon between two teams hailing respectively from Cambridge and Hamilton. The contest excited great interest, and whs witnessed by a number of spectators, who seemed to thoroughly enjoy the fun. The Cambridge men were the heaviest lot I ever saw in one team, and, could they play the game, that is, if they thoroughly understood the rules, and woald stick to them, they would take an immense lot of boatiug. The play was the roughest ever seen on a football field in this province, and the Hamiltoniane, who were all lightweights, got pretty well mauled, though their opponent ,s mnmigal to knock one anotherabout as well aa their adversaries, and cuts ami bruises were pretty well distributed. About the pl.-.y thei'c is very little to bewiid. At the start the l.itle-uns had tlio best of it, but, Avhcn the rough work came on, they played more back, nnd took care of themselves a little. After three-quarters of an hour's play a touch down vas obtained f>r Hamilton by E. Cox, but the " try 1 " was lofet His ugh the bull being placed

oh the ground too soon, and a splendid chance of n gj.il\\a> thus thrown away. About, lu'f-pii-hour after that a couch-down, was obtained by Mtintobh ibi" Cambridge, but lie, too, loht his " try" through the Ikliuo fault, so that the game resulted in a draw. About 4. 1 1) the rain came down so heavily as to stop all play, which -hould have been continued for half-an-hour longer. In the evening the visitors were entertained at dinner at the Duke of Cambridge Hotel, where host Walker gave a splendid spread, it being, indeed, the best got up affair I have seen out of Auckland, and after every attention had been I paid to the good things provided, and the usual toasts had been gone through, the meeting resolved itself into a musical comuiiltee, and conviviality reigned supreme. I hear that the Cambridge captain, (Alclntosh) claims the game, in order to decide the bets, because he states that the Hamilton men left the field without his being consulted on the subject at all. Now, that may be a very good way of deciding the bets for those who were betting on Cambridge, but any who pays on that score must have more money than wit, as the thing is absurd. The Hamilton captain may have acted discourteously in not consulting about the adjournment; but he, certainly, does not lose the game through it, such a thing never having been heard of. Ido not know if a return match is to take place, but if it does, I suppose that it will be played at Hamilton. — Correspondent.