THE GREAT GAME.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 176, 11 July 1927, Page 7

THE GREAT GAME.

THI TRIF TO MABTERTON. SOME INTERESTING PARS. Some amusement, and not a little enthusiasm, was created amongst the passengers of one of the special trains to Masterton on Saturday morning when it pulled up at a railway station for refreshments. The appesuanoe of a diminutive pretty waitress. in a black frock and snowwhite apron, was too much for the emotional football fans as she hurried round with the steaming cups of tea. and they cheered the little ladv and the Hawke’s Bay colours that she wore as a good omen of the issue of the match. The attractive little waitress entered fully into the fun of the occasion and reciprocated the good wishes extended to her. A spectator at the match says that though the game at the commencement was inclined to be rough and four men had to be called out and warned bv the referee, whilst at one time things seemed to reach a crisis at which anything might have happened, even to the referee walking off the ground, still things levelled down afterwards to a solidlv hard R*me. strenuous certainly, but not what he would cal] rough. J. To ° have the Shield S’’’ 1 , 3 ,° clock—no longer,’’ said one Hawke s Bay enthusiast to the ticket collector on the main stand at Masterton on Saturday at 1 o’clock