FOOTBALL.
It is pleasing to note the friendlyfeeling which is always engendered by the athletic contests between Napier and Gisborne. A member of the former team writes a very warm description of the trip to Gisborne. He states: —We were met at the wharf by the secretary. Mr Geo. Staite, several Gisbornites, and a four-in-hand which conveyed us to that well-known hostelry, Scott’s Masonic, where we were made as comfortable as larks. . . The local men quite astonished us by their good play, as we had been led to expect rather a soft thing after the first ten minutes, but they stuck to us from start to finish, and gave us the hardest and fastest game we have played this season. And I have no doubt, that had they as much practice together as we have had, we should have had a different tale to tell you. . . . In the evening we were right royally entertained at dinner at the Masonic, only in such way as Gisbornites are known to receive their visitors. Our captain appeared in. good fettle, for besides making away, with the best part of a turkey, a ham, and several returns of pears and apricots, became ont of his shell in responding to our toast. He must have been working up his speech for a fortnight. During the evening several songs and recitations were given, and I think in both departments the cake must he given to Mr Woodward, of Gisborne, who sang ‘ A Fine Hunting Day,’ ‘ The Lance,’ and recited ‘ How We Beat the Favorite.’ . . So we left Gisborne at 10 a.m. on Sunday, and I think it would have pricked the conscience of many a Napier footballer if he had seen the crowd who came to wish us good-bye. There must have been fully two hundred people on the wharf when onr little steamer cast off. The cheering was deafening, but the laughter was greater when our good ship stuck fast in the mud alongside the wharf. However, the pilot, apparently being used to that sort of catastrophe, send us all for’ardjJ and we were soon off down the river and away homeward bound. With three ringing cheers we sent the pilot back.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 172, 21 July 1888, Page 1
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