FOOTBALL AT HAMPDEN.

North Otago Times, 5 August 1903, Page 1

FOOTBALL AT HAMPDEN.

(From Our Own Correspondent.), For a number of years the athletic xtion of this, community, have al■ays been to the fore ill raising a [■editable football team as regularly s 'the season comes round, and usully. these tejunis haW contested a umber of matches with other teams i various smajl towns along the Dast. This year Ims not been an excption,, .Quito a wow of enthusiasm )i- the game has swept over the cow mliiity, with the result that Hansen now. boasts of a first ajjjl a seond fifteen,' land if rumor is correct, loeraki will shortly possess a club. During this season tho lirst'fifteen avo played three matches .against tho allowing- clubs,; Kaiutane, (Hamp-i en won), Kakanui (Hampden won), nd .Waikottalti (tjie locals again win lug by 14 points to 3. A match ?aa arranged with. Palmerston, but hat team has not yctt turned up. The Hampden seconds have just reentry started, and a'match nth ' Palmerston second fifteen, but igain tho latter, team have not coip o light., I understand that a match between lampden and Moeraki will be playid on tho local grounds on Saturday ifixt, tho losing team to pay for tho linner which is to follow the game. I'he names of tho plpyers are now posted up,| and varipus ctonjeetureS iro being made a 9 to the weight and ability of tho men from the Port. The first fifteen have been fortunate in securing a good captain in the per son of MrM. M'Culioeh, who played last year in the first;