CORRESPONDENCE. THE LATE FOOTBALL MATCH AT ALEXANDRA. TO THE EDITOR.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1434, 10 September 1881, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE. THE LATE FOOTBALL MATCH AT ALEXANDRA. TO THE EDITOR.

Sir. — Would yon kindly allow me space in your paper to »ay a few words on behalf of the Ohpupo Football Club and my self. I was surprised to see in your issue of 3rd inst. that talr Grierson should make use of an error from your own correspondent, at Te Awamutu aa the basis of his one-sided account of the football match between Ohaupo and Alexandra and make the attack on us. Now, as he has given his side of the gams, and left ours out, I think it is but light that it should be given also. The game was anything but an easy one for Alexandra both as regards the points and the play as the , following facts will ohow. Ohaupo scored 2 points and Alexandra , the latter thus winning by 2 points, and not by 4 ( . Owing greatly to a strong wind at the time in of Alox-

andra Bide, they got both their tries within about ten miuutes from the commencement of the game. If Alexandra iron the game so easily, I am at a loss to understand why they did not, «core during the remainder of the gtfme as we nearly won the game by getting a goal from our ' try which was well kicked by Mr Irnng, but the wind carried the ball just outside the goal post, and was the only kick that went near the goal. I was playing full back when I made the run for our try, and I most decidedly say that I had not a free course, as two or three of their side attempted to collar me. One of their side made a cry of "foul," but as it was absolutely without foundation, we got a kick for goal. I do not mean to insinuate that they maintained it was foul, as they did not. They raised the dispute on the ground that we got our try by mistake. Alexandra got two tries, only there waß a dispute about one which was in reality only a force-down, as I touched it myself. Grierson carried the ball across our line, but it rolled out of his hands in falling. In the last 20 minutes, the play was about even on both sides, in the second 20 minutei nearly so, it was in the third 20 minutes we got our try. Although Alexandra won the match, I dp not think they had a very wide margin to make a boast of it, more especially when we gave them two lads from our side to make an even match, tn conclusion I might say that I have merely stated facts and will not take notice of any further discussion on the subject, that is, if there should beany. Hoping you will insert this, and oblige, — Yours, &c, Geo. MacFaklanb, Captain Ohaupo Team. Paterangi, Bth September, 1881.

BREEDING SEXES AT WILL. TO THE EDITOR Sir,~A correspondent gives his experience regarding the breeding of sexes at will ; it is not a recent discovery, and is, I believe, correct in the main in regard to quadrupeds. Perhaps he is not aware of a simpler plan than his regarding fowls, which never fails ; that is, to observe the air bubble at the end of the egg, which is exactly at the end in a male bird's egg, and a little to one side in the female. A friend of mine had a valuable breed of fowls which he wished toincrease by rearing hen birds, but forgetting the distinctive mark, hatched a clutch of ten cocks and one female chicken. — I am, &c, T.M. Piako, September 7th.

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