Football.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7844, 23 May 1904, Page 5

Football.

_ The following table shows the position for the Hankms shield :—

A meeting of tho Huia Football Club will be held in the Phoenix Hotel on Tuesday night at 7.30 sharp. AH members are requested to attend as the bnaineßß is very important. Prom present appearances Otago.will send a good forward team North this year. There is plenty of good material available, and several should win their representative cap for the first time this season. Half-backs, tco. are plentiful. Duncan will be missed from the fiveeight lire, but there are three or four young players coming rapidly to the front, and little difficulty shou'd be experienced in filling his place. There are also several good centre threequarters, but there are not so many likely-looking wing men playing. Altogether, the team should be a fairly strong touring combination. Southland will be lighter this year than usual m Hie forwards, but they are said to have several brilliant young backs playing in the club matches. They, too, will co North. ■ - .

The football match between the Old Boys and Awahuri, at Awahuri, on Saturday, resulted in a win for Awahuri by l(i to 6. The Awahuri "forwards completely ran over the. Old Boys, Conspicuous among the lorwards who played a lasting game were Stuart, Johnston1, A. Mends, D. Whisker, and Woolven. Baker' McNai, and D. Cole, among thu backs, played a sterling game. For the Old Boys, P. McMinn and Smith (forwards), and Hammer and Slwlley (backs) played a really gooc/ game. The . Awahuri combination should about win the shield.

Palmerston Lwahun )id Boys Institute JYJ datch 5 o 5 , 5 hes Won ] 3 3 - 2 2 Lost . 2 2 3 3 Pts, 6 6 4 4