FOOTBALL.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 485, 26 July 1890, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

The Gisborne representatives will have possession of the football ground again this afternoon, when they play another match against an opposition team to be selected from all comers. The weather for the past few weeks has been very much against arM| indulgence in active training, and thus representatives will suffer a disadvantage which it was hoped might be remedied before the time had arrived for the match with Hawke’s Bay. But they have been none the less diligent so far as circumstances would permit, and whenever there has been an opportunity the representatives have made good use of it, and many of the players have been on the ground early and late when the weather would permit it. There ought to be an effort to have oom. pleted before the time for tho Hawke’s BayGisborne match arrives some kind of a dressing shed. It has been talked of so much and so often that one cannot help smiling at ths expense of the various clubs. Elaborate estimates have before now been made and even plans drawn up, it has been facetiously stated, and yet the shed seems as far off erection as is tho prospeot of Gisborne becoming a second London. It is certainly not very creditable to the football olube that aftor all this talk nothing has yet been done in regard to the actual erection at the shed. It is not a nice thing for players that there should be an absence of such a convenience, and it is possible there will some day be a contretemps that will make footballers feel that something definite ought to have been done. There is now no place to go to if a player wishes to put on his costume, aud if some such accident should oocur ss a player’s garments getting torn during the course of a match—horrible thought I—what might not the consequences be? Mr Staite, secretary for the representative Committee, has telegraphed to Napier saying that the representatives cannot play on Friday or Saturday next, as such an arrangement would clash with the match between the Turanganui Club and tbe second fifteen of the Pirates. The following team has been picked to play on Tuesday the 29th inst., against the Turanganui team that goes to Napier on August Ist:—Full back : A. Thomson ; threequarters: F. Test, C. Morgan, E. O'Meara; halves: G, Morgan and F. O’Meara; forward: Colebourne, Millor, Green, Mouatt, A. Wade, King, Smith, Somers, Bourke, Lyanar, Dunlop, Nazer, J. Johnstone, W. Chriap, and H. Bull. Emergencies: P. Reid, S. Hooper, H. Lyanar, J, Harris, and J. Morell.