Football.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 202, 30 August 1887, Page 2

Football.

(To the Editor.)

Sik, —" Actseon," in your issue of Saturday, crows a little too loudly over the Auckland win in the recent Otago match. He states " Otago could teach us nothing." Indeed ? How different is my opinion. I think that the youths who represented Otago on this occasion could teach the Auckland men how to play football, although the latter are far and away the best handball players.

.Will any impartial critic differ with me when I say that the Otagoites showed a superior knowledge of football proper, but were sadly deficient in "speeling," and through the want of the latter qualification they lost the game ? Look at the ready way they packed the scrummages* and almost invariably took the ball through; their fast kicking, and quick following up on a dribble showed a lot of play, while the fact that Whiteside ' didn't score proves efficient collaring. No, " Mr Actseon," you are in too great a hurry to flap your wings, or rather shake your horns. The Otagbifces were fairly beaten, and admitted so with good grace, but they are not duffers.; All they want to make them perfect are two such running men as Whiteside and Elliott (they needn't know more about the game than they do) and the mature age of the average Aucklanders. Then they mil more than reverse the decision of Wednesday, learn something from Aucklandj and, best of all, admit it.—l am, etc., .

Old Playeb.