THE HUNTLY FOOTBALL MATCH.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2347, 26 July 1887, Page 2

THE HUNTLY FOOTBALL MATCH.

TO THE EDITOB. Sin, —I was present at the football match between Hamilton and Huntly on Saturday last, and never has it been my lot to witness a more unfair and wretched exhibition of the game. For the first spell it was simply “Win, tie or wrangle' 1 onjthe part of the Hnntly men, and the umpires looked on placidly. The captain of the team, Mr Louis Harris, certainly deserves credit for the amount of trouble he has taken to get a team together, bqt all Ji.is good work is nullified by the way in which they (nr a fewyif them) play. Strong language was the order of the day, or,e man calling Mr Odium, the Hamilton captain, “ a b v liar.” The referee knew nothing of the game and sometimes when both flags were up he sounded no whistie/and again when no flags were up ho whistled, 'without rhyme, or reason, simply because one of his side called out t.. him to do so. Mr Odium objected to Mr Ralph, as ho could know nothing of the game, but Mr Harris insisted on his being appointed as he said ho thought he was entitled to a Himtly umpire and referee on his own ground. Hailey, Smith and Williams should certainly never be allowed to play in any game under the auspices of the association, as they played

unfuirly throughout, 1 blame the umpires for tli.it. .tin, -; nmucli as the men them—l-..-. Agdn, the language mi the field a,- M.m-thi.ig dreadful. i’rom th; captain ■;-v.l grot to have to say—it w.«* -h.,m. ful. If men cann >t. play tli - gam- v.:• ii,■ .--l;ig and >'. V" iring Llj f -v shoo!.; -• ,v ..I i. ■ j; Hiur imu to .tbaiies exp. cl ii. r-pc" c people will alio-y their son- ; . t «k- put in games played as that ~n S,fr,; -.v s. i ii-y v. iil n't ii.. it, and onereally ilia INI- tlli‘lll. I‘lle whole :.,II ' a. . 1; the eitivme. N-..r. Ikn ,f tli ,-e in :,li ei ■ i '.-.ill .- i ■ ■ n lh-y read the-' • line-, 'oil i .• i ,• .... in>t '-ii" j -I. W'l: ii J 'ai.'.. i- m *ji.. t. -t intere-ts of f. nlhali. and I am I w.li have tin;-y:np'thy all til ■-.■ r-i.iv wish to s-• the gain-- progress. Mv . ieto Mr llarrii and ilnnlly f.i girdl-T- g rally is, “ I‘iay football fairly, win or hoc. and y■ 111 will c I the-vmpatiiy of all i i.. r<if the game. It ym' play a- y-'i are n-w doing no club v. fi] o * wc.'.ng t .:n “I v > i." I hope mi Sifudav n-At. a i,. n ilentlv meet Cambridge, they will alter th-ir style, and al-; i [.'ey a H'lntly team nnas siiled by Auckland players, f ve. nld wish it to be di-tinctly nndersto 'd that I n-*T blame the liunllv team a< a who],; p.,- i;n----fainie-s. I have mentioned the nani.-s of tile Worst i.ifellllel'S, but Would be . .irv to say anything against such m'n as 1 1isw.‘!!, Ralph, Coiniolly, I’nchau in. Mankt'dow, Ilammnn!, or .f. Hams. Apologising for troubling you on this matter, —I am. sir, yours truly, T.Sans.ks.