FOOTBALL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13092, 4 June 1913, Page 5

FOOTBALL.

( Per Press Association .) VVANGANUI, last night

The first Rugby representative match 1 etween Wanganui ■ and Taranaki of the season was. played here to-dfty. , There.' 'iras,a cloudy, sky overnight, rain made the ground heavy ] on the surface. r :he, game was.a. a gpoty .one, Taranaki— J oth backs arid forAyards— being '. much superior to the local men, TaranaK'l won! ly 26 ppints (tries by Loveridge (5) and ''aylor (1), who also- landed a penalty joal) to Wanganui's 5 (R., Leahy a" try, converted by Faber). The Taranaki backs (aye, a fine exhibition., There were nearly : 000- people p.rqsent. . / . , , „ V.. S :, ; NAPIER, last^night. The Northern Union v; wanganui Nyas played, here to-4ay j^ii favorable weather ' and m the presence of a! large' .crowd of spect^ors. The game Was fi^t 7 and open, but the combination of the Hawke's Bay baqk division was better than that of trie visitors, although there . was 1 little to choose between the. forward divisions.,, In the first spell Hawko's ;-Bay led, by R to 3, but towards the close the home team hold the upper, hand, 'and the final scores wer6— Hawke's. '... Bay.. .23, Wanganui 6. Roscoe. and, Hodgson,, sco red for the. visitors, for whom SiddeUs played a remarkably good game. '.- .