INVERCARGILL NOTES.
(from our own cobbespondent.)
! . ' iNVEBCABGiixi May 21. 1 After nearly four, years reverses the Pirate* have at length mastered the I. F. C, by beating them on Saturday by a goal from the field and 2 tries to nil. The Pirates played well together) particularly the forwards, and to them the ww is to be greatly credited. W. Hawke at three quarter back, and Tapper at half, played up in rare style. For the losers, "Simmonds, J« Brodrick, M. Morgan, and Moore, played bestWant of practice was most noticeable, and it* greatly to be .regretted that thel.F. C. sbouM go to the'wall, simply from want of an example from,tbose at the head of affairs. . , .The old club has still the making of a good fifteen if rallied up, and I have no donbt that when the third match between the above clap* is played that the result will not be, at any rate» so decisive a beating. '* . 1 ' The Pirates play at Gore ,on the 24tb, Bnd * anticipate' an easy win ,foif, them. The SW should hold their own with' Riverton on the saw
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Otago Witness, Issue 1853, 27 May 1887, Page 26
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