FOOTBALL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9547, 1 October 1892, Page 6 (Supplement)

FOOTBALL.

THE GOLDFIELDS TOUR,

(By Our Si-koiai, llEPOiti-Eit.)

Nasehy, Septembor 30. Tha town football team played tho final match of the tour this afternoon, when 15 uf the Na*eby Prospectors wero pitted against iiusm. - Tha wen.ib.nr was line overhead but bitterly cold, aud a strong northerly wind, amounting almost to a gale, blew across Lwir.an's paddock, about a mile out of towu . on the heights, in which the •match was played. There was a good attendance of spectators, including a fair proportion of ladies. Stephwison, Harris, Campbell, Ira.in, and O'Neill stood out of tho town team. Tho iNfaseby Fifteen comprised the following:— Full back—On-; tlireequarters—Stewart, Costello, jNUvslmll; halves—Ladd, Francis; forwards—D. Buchanan, J. Buchanan S. Imlcr, G. Lndov, Snuuston, Itirby, M'Gregor, Mavslin, Hogg. The toss was lost by Isaacs, and the local team for the first spell defeuded the northeasterly goal, and besides haviug the'benefit of tho wiud this meant playiug downhill. The Colnurs carried the ball at t,he outset into the visitors' quarters, u.ud the Blues being iiaable to adopt passing tactics on account >f the {,'ale, the game was n, tight one. Tho local forwards showed themselves to be smart in fout^oik, and the Blues had to work hard to keep play in midaeld. Tho ball .vrasuiv.ista'.ii-ly being carried out of bounds on the southern side, and the play oscillated between the quarter disunite ilug.-t, the efforts of the Blues to get av;ay with short passes being nipped in the hud by the shar;> and vigorous tackling of the Colours.- Eventually Ci-awfurd got the bail oat iv thu ctntw to Otiradus, who took it on some dstance. before sending it on to Dowries, from whom he received it back, (jaradus then grounding it after 23 minutes' play / behind liuo. Buroside neatly'improved. After the kick-out, play _ was much the same as before. Francis doing yeoman service Tor tha Clours iv stopping the Blues' halves, but O.rc.'.'us and Downes threatened tho Colours' liui's, which were cleared by a free kicir. : Just Lofore-half-time Baker charged •l.nvu a kick from the Naseby full biok ' and I'-'oVed like scoring, but knocked the.ball on as fiv trie,! to secure it a few yards from tho line, niiti ilw: Colours succeeded in keeping their opyouonts out for the rest of the spell. fa tho second half thu bail was hardly iaj.lay before a forward rush, following on passing between Caradns and Dowues, took it to the Colours' lines, and in less than two raiuutHS .Duncan had scored, but Torranco failed with the kick. Play went, on ..in the-Colours' along the touclilirie,' until passing '•'uefcween the backs let Laureusoir in near the born->r flag on the windward side, and the same player registered a splendid goal. The Bines main-j-iiuied a sfcroug attack on the local team's goal, but the Colours' forwards kept the game tight and offered sturdy r^sis'ance, and it was. after repeated rushes a:id been stopped thai;-from a scrum near the goal posts Crawfurd .obtained the ball and, by tricky play, got across. Burnside _ again improved. Shortly afterwards, passing among tho backs gave a chance to Downes, who scored behind the goal, but Burnside's kick on this occasion drove the ball outside the posts. From this point to the finish there was desperate play in the ■'Colours' quarters, and the local team had to work hard to prevent a further score, which they succeeded in doing, and when "No side" was called the Towu team had won by three goals/and two -tries (19 points) to'nil. '. ;: 'W . . The match afforded only a poor "exhibition of the game, the high wind: preventing the' Blues from indulgiug with any,freedom in the passing of which they made a great feature during thu tour, and play was almost entirely in the/forward division, i:i which the visitors "met.the strongest imposition thny have eneountored on the tour. The Naseby forwards included some powerful rnwvwho s-howed themselves able to throw the Blues about with Rasa, and moreover they displayed capital foot work, aud tickled--vigorously and < ft'eclively.. - The backs'were not such; combination as have besnmeh :\vßh (it; ot/utT centres, bsit, as already stated, ;}»lny.-did not come nni<h out of the forward ranks. Mr Wjinka eonirelled the-game with his usual efficiency. ' ■; - : ' . ■ lii the ev..-niug tho visitors were entertained at dinner ah tha Ancient Briton Hotel: They start at G o'clock in the morning for Middle-i march, where they join the. trc,iu, which leaches Duuedin ab live minutes past! 6in the evening. ;•,',;