FOOTBALL.

Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 75, 26 September 1898, Page 5

FOOTBALL.

Junioe Cup. Athletic beat Kia Ora at Athletic Park by 10 points to nil. The winners' score was obtained in the second spell, and was made up of tries secured by Redmond and Pamilton and a goal potted by Milne. Melrose and Athletic are now bracketed together for leading honours, and play the final match on Saturday to decide which team shall hold the Championship for the season. The positions of the two clubs are as follows : — Played. "Won. Lost. Drawn. Pts. Athletic 9 7 0 2 16 Melrose 9 7 0 2 16 The final matches in the public schools competition for Davis & Clater's banner were decided on Saturday, Terrace defeating Clydequay by 13 points to nil, and Mount Cook running over Eintoul-street by 3 points to nil. The result of the competition leaves Mount Cook at the top of the poll, a position it has held for three successive years. The positions of the teams are as follows : — a. \ .S'g . B IN l« I I I I s Mount Cook 8* 8 — 1 17 Rintoul-street 9 6 2 1 13 Terrace ... 9 5 3 1 11 Clyde-quay ... 9 3 5 1 7 Petone ... 4* 2 4 — 4 Te Aro ... 6 1 5 — 2 Newtown ... 5* 1 5 — 2 *Petone defaulted to Mount Cook and Newtown to Petone. The second round was played by the four teams leading at the end of the first round, times v. post. The second annual fixture between teams from the two newspaper offices took place at Newtown Park on Saturday afternoon, and resulted in a win for the morning journal's fifteen, the score being 5 points to nil. This result makes football honours even between the two offices, the Post having won last year's match by 9 points to 3. Saturday's game was very evenly contested, the try secured by Gillon being the result of carelessness on the part of the Post forwards and backs, who offered no opposition to the scoring player, under the apparent) impression that the whistle should have been blown. Gillon was too tricky for bis opponents, however. He converted his try into a goal. "Where every player put forward his best foot for his side it would be invidious to make any distinction. J. Griffiths captained the Times team and P. Uluudell the Post, Mr. D. M'Keuzie made a very fair and good-natured referee, and C. Balcombe (Post) and G. Gaudin (Times) held the flags on the touch-line. MISCELLANEOUS. A match between teams to be picked from the employe's of the Petone railway workshops and the Permanent Artillery will be played at Petone next Saturday. ASSOCIATION. The Queen's Park and Swifts senior teams played a drawn game at Newtown Park — one goal each. Henderson scored for the Swifts and Ferkius for Queen's Park. The Swifts third were defeated by a challenge team of third and fourth-olass players by 4 goals to 3.