Football.

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume X, Issue 897, 1 April 1891, Page 3

Football.

l!i\v vl.-i ■.-ini-'fi nvn.;-f- : i '.;•_> : A Monday -be*. tween khe>Leeston and>; Wfeihi : clubs pn the ground of the latter. The Leeston men Went clotti' by morning train, and 1 play TJeg'aff ttbbut; r o#' '/ojelpttfc lV piMer £ broiling son.! and .their Want of condjtiqa. tojd heavily against the Northerners) as did also the superiority i m condition "and weight of the ' Waihia." The home team-lridked^uff and tiffl game at once became fast and furious, the ball ilying from one end bEthe ground to the •other. The ponderou.3 Waibi fqrwarde were m UneW 1 'efemei& ;and -/(KaWefl "th'e : ovoid again and again -through 1 th'e scrum scoring no less than six"trie?. Hoyfever ' the gW^k^b^meanb'so'^Vefra^tYe wards responding gallanvjjy. ..^Amongst the team, Graham, and „J >; li^nnie distinguished themselves, as did also Butler McMUlanjHSl?ey, and Moor head . . To■wards"the end.a^jblpejvg^iPfijM i^aham scored a try, which Elannery failed^ from a difficult angtaatpwcanvert. v gThe borne team scored •sTjclriesf and one^goarrrom ' a free J^ki-' < )Md]rttbSh4:.>M6rri'sonji Cthe' two Stewarts, Shajilard, and. thre^ Harts vrere towers of strength to. the Waihis. Afte/ . v the mat^})', tiie visitors I were ; hospit'ri ,tjy -^ltejrt^fpe^ ,at the WiiXQliester Hote(/, an^dr^efl ,tp ,Urad . . to. . meet . ithq j express,,-,-, (a r Jliiw> ar t e ( louAiin jth' eU'upraisw of the; i treatment; they i-texperfeaced ■ ;aln(i look forward with pleasure tO 1 another trial of"st?edglh"next *eHaahV; : '•' ; ( i;i ";