FOOTBALL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2631, 17 September 1902, Page 53

FOOTBALL.

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• (lo.ir^f* .Smith, UiP rli.itrpioi! threr quarter, .•.-!. o lift- j'i c t returned from Knplnnrl. assort*, il.at lif Ikih fluiif fit!- niiHniitt »ud football for rtll time. H<- intend- to settle down to a d-jmotio life Hut it i= a If.ng way yet to nt'xt winter, and when he hears the. football boiKienig he will doubtless be found qualifying -for the New South Walo' trip. Hi-, opinion of English rerrcatior- grounds '• that thc-y ;u.> not neaily so fa*--t and trr.a for naming purposes as cjloniil grounds arf. OriP of the Southland 'te.\m is a patriotic fin of the TCim-rald I«.!e, and 1 c blamed the colour of the Wairarapa me'-i'- jerseys for the comparatively poor display he gave jr. tl.a* game. It ib ult-o wpM Icho-ah the Wairarapa inc-n play in all jnven jfrseys and tic Southlands wiid h-? (ould not find it m }#i< licart to lovvn a raw wearing tlve colour. This is how a northern writer sums -ip ex-Otago forward Tom Cross: — Cross-, tin* burly Canterbury /orward, was a palpable scrum "winger" on Saturday, which reminds mo that Cross, has not shown anything near hie real form since the la^t liinwoodC'hviotcWurch match When ho takes to "winging" it looks afc tlioujrh lie were pen.onMv n^jr tr> })P]'nEC a hiu-k number. By d feating North L-!.ti><! on Sahird.-i;* the South Island tPam gained a victory ovc-'* the strongest combination the North Island could produce. An Auckland writer «nys : If the South Island team prowes too strontA for tho Northerners there will be no excusoq for our beating, as a better team could lWi have been picked, and Messrs Murray, Ell W con. and Hallamore are to be warmly corr - j plimccited on the- selection made. Viewedi *~~m all htandDoints the combination is in-*.