TUG OF WAR CHAMPIONSHIPS
THE DUNEDIN CONTESTS.
( (PRESS ASSOCIATION TEUEGBAM.) • , " '■'.''"'. ' '• -'•'"'" DUNEDIN, June 5. ■The All-comers Tug-of-;W3r Championship Tournament was continued 'to-night in the presence of a very large audicnoe. The fifth and sixth rounds 'were contested, -with the following results:— : - . ,i >-.',, • Fifth Round. .-. Telegraph No. T beat Dunedin Police. Hoffman Bros, beat Auckland. Police. . ,Stevenson and ,Cook No. 1 beat Taieri. Hornibrook's Physical Culture Team beat 'Waterside 2. • .. - Beban's-West Coast Team beat-Enfield. . Invercargill Sailing .Club tbeat Stevenson and Cook No. 2. - . - Spring Hills beat Nightcaps by default.--,lnch Valley .'beat Speights No. 1 by default. •'■,'.- Sixth Round. -Hornibrook's 1 Physical Culture Team beat Hoffman-Bros.- '.-... - Stevenson. and Cook No. 1 beat Spring Hills. ■'..'-'-•■. - Enfield beat Inch. Valley. - Beban's West Coast Team beat Telegraph No.'l. : --. - --- - - - - : • Wa'tersicle No." 2 beat'lnvercargill Sailing Club„ ~.(,.:.. • • . Auckland Police, a bye.. - .'" A .LOCAL CONTEST." '. .
TEAM v. WEST COAST • , - TEAM.. ~■ ,
On Monday evening. - in the Alexandra' Hall, F. A. Hornibrook's Physical Culture Team snd Beban's West Coast Team-will take part in a tup-of-war contest- for.' a purse of £50 a fide. Both- the teams have been very successful at the big contest held in Dunedin this week, and an' exciting strnegle should bo witnessed. The stakes' hare already been d»oosited, twith Mr Frank Grrffin, of Christchurch. .; The first of the pulls starts at 8.30 n.m.' •
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14987, 6 June 1914, Page 13
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