FOOTBALL.
THE RUGBY GAME
THE .MAORI TEAM
(Per Press Association.) Napier, July 23
The New Zealand ZNlaori team inaugurated their tour here yesterday with a match against Hawke’s Bay, which they won after a hard-fought game by 3to nil. Drizzling rain set in the previous night, and continued all day. The ground was covered with pools, and quickly became a -ma of mud, on which it was quite impossible to obtain a sure' footing. Play was characterised by a sci ios of rushes on the part of the Maoris, v. ho showed better form, and were much more clover at picking up and passing than the local men. Hawke's Bay played a good defensive game, cud only by sheer determination pi evented the Maoris from scor' ig on several occasions. About live minutes before, the call of time, Mona got over, lut Erekana’s attempt to convert was fruitless. NORTHERN UNION TEAM’S RETURN. Auckland, July 24. The Northern Union football team returned from Sydney by the VV barn ora on Sunday. Phelan, manager, states that the team’s share of the gate receipts was £4OOO, leavng £3OOO clear profit. The team lias gained invaluable experience, ; nd is now vastly improved in combination. Arrangements have been made with the New South Wales League for an annual fixture, with a guarantee of £ISOO and all expenses, any iimo a New Zealand team went over. Each Now Zealand player was paid £3 10s per week while on tour to compensate for loss of wages. The New South Wales League wished to send a team over to New Zealand within six weeks. This will probably bo arranged.
ROUGH PLAY. Masterton, July 21. It is stated that the conduct ox several members of a certain junior football. team during the progress of a match on Saturday was not what it should have been. The referee reported the whole of the team to the Wairarapa Rugby Union for unseemly behaviour on the field, and the Union has ordered the captain to attend the next meeting to give an explanation. During the progress of the Masterton and Bush Districts match on Saturday, a player for the latter team named J. Kennedy, Pahiatua, was severely kicked on the head and compelled to retire. SCHOOL BOYS. The game between the West End and Stratford school boys for the primary championship, on Saturday, resulted in a draw, neither side scoring. There was some really good play by both teams at times, but the Stratford bovs showed the best form.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 129, 24 July 1911, Page 4
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