ITEMS OF SPORT

New Zealand Tablet, 2 October 1913, Page 29

ITEMS OF SPORT

FOOTBALL. a$L I Last Saturday (writes our Hamilton correspondent), St. Mary's junior football team played oil for the third time with the Frankton Club, and were defeated .by "6 points to 5. St. Mary's were leading by 5 points to nil (a try by Raynor converted by 33. Mathieson) at the beginning of the last twenty minutes, and the final score was a great shock to their supporters, who had assembled in force to. welcome the 1913 champions. It was, however, not to be. The game was a hard one, and stubbornly contested throughout.- Every man in St. Mary's team played a splendid game, and it is generally acknowledged that they were extremely unlucky to lose. After the match, St. Mary's in a body went round to the Frankton dressing shed, where they cheered and congratulated the winners. Seeing that St. Mary's team came into existence this season, they have no reason to be ashamed of themselves in acting as runners-up to the Frankton junior team. The Frankton team is a redoubtable one, [ and I understand that St. Mary's are the first team to defeat them during the last five years. Last year the Frankton juniors entered in the seven-aside tournament and won it,. defeating all the senior teams. The success of St. Mary's football teams in their first year is in a great manner due to their painstaking and vigorous secretary, Mr. Michael McCarthy. Some two or three hundred spectators watched the first match for the ,Evatt Cup between the Past and Present students of St. Patrick's College, at Kelburne Park on Wednesday afternoon (writes our Wellington correspondent). About three weeks ago the Present Boys defeated the Old Boys by 25 points to 14. This left the Pa3t students dissatisfied, and they challenged their victors to another match, this time for a cup presented by Mr. Reginald L. Evatt. As a result of the match the Present students won comfortably by 19 points to 7. . Playing in Association matches in the third division (writes our Wellington correspondent) Marist (5), by defeating Swifts (2), are left to contest the third division final. In the fourth division Y.M.C.A. defeated Marists by 3 goals to nil in the semi-final for the Charity Cup contest. By defeating Petone by 2 goals to 1, Marist are winners of the fifth-class cup. Marist Brothers are now possessors of the cup, having won it five times at intervals. ST. JOSEPH'S HARRIERS. The St. Joseph's Harriers, Dunedin, held their final run of the season from St. Clair as guests of the committee. The club combined with the Civil Service Harriers, and started in the direction of the Caves, leading through the Second Beach, past Cargill's Castle, skirting the Golf Links, over excellent harrier country, leading through Allandale, and coming on to the Main road, which was followed to : . the golf house and home, and finishing on the Second Beach. Afterwards the harriers were the guests of the committee at tea.