OTAHUITI NOTES.

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 12, 4 June 1920, Page 6

OTAHUITI NOTES.

FOOTBALL. On Saturday 29, Otahuti journeyed to Drummond and play the home team at 2 p.m. Mr Frank O'Connell, referee. Waianawa oppose the Wright's Bush team while the Calcium team 'have a bye. Given a dry day fast open games should result. On Monday night the R.S. A. organiser, Mr Colquhoun, will speak at Calcium on the objects of the Association. The Otahuiti recreation ground was the scene of a very fast football match last Saturday, when the Waianawaw team met and d,ef eated the Otahuti team by six points (two tries) to nil. The play from the start was always interesting and keen, and if it had ended a drawn game, itwould have been a better criterion of the match. The ball was very greasy and consequently passing xushes wore not the order of the day, tho forwards having a hard time of it. Waianawa had the best of the first spell, and scored two tries in the first few minutes, but as the game wore on the Otahutities began to assert themselves, and in the last fifteen minutes had everything their own way, and were certainly unlucky in not scoring on several occasions. McCaw (Spar Bush), Pay Waikiwi), Galt Bros (Waianawa), Wilson Bros. (Taramoa), and G. Cartcr, played exceptionally fine football for Waianawa and would be an acquisition to any town club, especially Pay, who is a credit to the position he holds in the Waikiwi senior team. Several Otahuti players being injured in tlxe first spell gave A. McLcod at five-eighths a lot of work to do, and to Him must be given the credit for so many rushes being stopped, after his partner J. Cochrane, retiring with a bad knee which unfortunaiely will keep him out of. the team for a few weeks. His plaee was taken by F. Rogers an old club player, who has played many matches in the army, and has had the advantage of being in first-class Rugby company while in Trentham,, "Apres la Guerre." Walking sticks and Zam-buk were at a premium on Sunday I am told and one Otahuti player was heard to say he had two Waianawa ears in his pocket, but he must have been unusually lucky in his souvenir hunting; however every - body was of the opinion that the match, altho' played hard was clean and wholesome, and the whisper from a well known Waianawa player of quiet and modest nature that his knee was broken, fortunately proved to be xmtrue. Mr Frank O'Connell controlled the game efficiently and is likely to get plenty to do in the future.