FOOTBALL. Aroha & Waitoa v. Waiorongomai & Quartzville.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 71, 11 October 1884, Page 2

FOOTBALL. Aroha & Waitoa v. Waiorongomai & Quartzville.

For Waiorongomai : Verity (captain), Gordon, Sheehan, Lynch, Purdie. Steele. Hawkins. O'Shea, Trade, Ellis, Jeffrey! OBrien, and Scott. For Aroha : Parker (captain), Whitehouse, Hinton, Johnson (2), Lawrence, Menzies, Hyde, Bleasdnle, Stewart (2), McFarlane, and Mercer. The game was played in two Fuflj&u^fives. Waiorongomai won the toss, elected to kick np hill, the wind favouring him. During the first spell the play was very lively, every one setting, to work with a determination to win. Parker kept his men well together and displayed .capital generalship On more than one - occasion the ball was worked dangerously near the Waiorongomai goal-line, and was two or three tines forced down. Stewart, sen., succeeded in obtaining the first try and Hinton kicked a very easy gjal. The ball was returned int^ the field, and, Parker having got possession, was making a good run, but was tackled on the touch line and had a very ugly fall, his leg gettiny twisted by one of the flair stakes the result being a severely sprained ankle, which, of course, place. 1 him kors de combat for the remainder of the day. Prom the throw in Jeffrey got possession of the. ball, and succeeded iv carrying it within a couple of yard 9 of t ie Te Aroha line, wuen, after a severe scrimmage, O'iShoa got a try. Verity failed, however, in kicking « very difficult goal. Immediati ly after this time was called. On resuming, the. Waio-rongoin.-ii men hud the downhill phy and speedily obtained a decided advantage, their loose dribbling tolling greatly against their lighter opponents, who now severely felt the loss of their captain. Whitohonse getting pos^es^ion of the ball made a fine 'Mm up field, and li.nl almost passed through his opponents when he was shouldered into touch by Steele. Tue ball, on being thrown in, went back to Verity, who, by a capital kick, sent it back into his opponents' twenty-live, when Hyde, in attempting to return it, kicked into touch, and the Waiorongomai forwards following quickly up, the ball was thrown in, from which Ell-is obtained a try, but failing to make his mark on the line in bringing it out, the umpires decided it was a dead b;i 1. Young Stewart then kicked off, but t e ball was quickly returned by Verity, ai d for a few minutes tin re was some livr y play in the neutral grain i. After co - sider.-ible scrimmaging, McFarlune goi possession and made a desperate run, but was collared, and attempted to pas? to Whitehouse who, however, failed to hold the ball. Steele, taking advantage, cleverly dribbled it through and secured a iry right behind the goal post, Verity kicking an easy goal. Time was /.lien called, the score standing thus : Waiorougomai, 9 ; Te Aroha, 5. The match wa« the most keenly contested one of the season, and good .play was shown by both sides. For Waiorongomai, Jeffrey, O'Shen, and Fivnch, did goo I' work as forwards, and Gore on, Trude, Stee.le r anjl Verity, as bucks, the last named doing so-ne cnpital kicking. For "Aroha and vv'aitoa, Lawreive, jMeniios, anjl Hinton, playod well a? fpr\xar}ls, and thi" two Stewarts, w intehonsp, andv^Bieasi. dale showe J ( io advantage/ inVtrtoir rej i spective places. Stewart, jui*. as three,

quarter l>nck o^inir soin(»;<»xppy?nrnroj|^ kicking. „ The, Arofm Meam'-iAno^jl under disadvantage in Vieiii^tjepHvetHi^j^ the services of some of their best forwartis!^ who were nnahlp to he present,' »ind\f;,|iei| loss of fieir coptain early <in tlie^grtniCKp iielpe«! also to weaken them. , >,-, \'l'<'\ Dnnns: the si'sson the Arolm Club has J pi 'veil four rnatclie.", ami lias been very' successfnl. The first was "irth the T..HmBs i Clnh nt Parawai, an'l resulted in ailrnw in f.ivour of Te Aroim. The second a»ainst a united team, captained by Qninlan, the Clnb winning by nine poi.its to th'l The tiii nl Hieetiii^ was with the Hmnilton players at Morrinsville, tlio A roh a men scoring nine to (heir opponents five, hi the fourth.tU'y (Mu-onniered their foimer Thames antagonists on the ground here. the. result beiny ;i win for tne. local club by nine to nil. T.iis score would have gone far towards securing the cup presented by Mr Ehrenfried, but as the Thames Club declined to ,abide by the agreement, viz.: That the trophy should I'ecoine the property of the highest Scorer in thive matches, the concluding game, which would have decided the the owner>hip of the prize, fell through much to the disgust and <lis<ipjinintmeiit of tue Aroha by whom the victory- w»s regarded as almost already secured.