FOOTBALL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 188, 27 July 1900, Page 3

FOOTBALL NEWS.

THE REPRESENTATIVE TRIAL MATCH. The second of the series of test' matches to determine-the selection of! the fifteen who shall do battle for | Taranaki against the sister provinces j took place at Hawera on Thursday, In the first matoh the Northerners defeated the Southerners by six points to four. In Thursday's game, the Northerners were very weak in the forwards, such bulwarks as Watson, Beudall, and Brown being delinquents. The game resulted in a win for the southern end by three points to nil, the scorer for the winning team being Hamilton. Owing to the absence from the northern team of the forwards above-mentioned, the play of the vanguard was completely spoilt, and the north division only secured the ball i from scrums some half-a-dozen times. | The game, as the score shows, was very hotly contested. Allen, who had been expected to have been an onlooker, donned the jarsey, and played an excellent game, Mr, J. Campbell (Hawera) was referee. The match High School v. Native Rose, played on Thursday afternoon on the former's ground, resulted in an unexpected win for the school by 6 points to nil. The Roses, though the 1 heavier team, were unable to equal ! their opponents, whose forwards played j a splendid game, The most c#nspicuous among the Native Rose backs were Clow, Bullot, and Granville; while Goodacre (at five-eights) and Douglas (full-back) played well for the school. The tries were scored by Billing and Goodacre. A mixed team from the Central School met the Waitara school boys in the Recreation Grounds on Thursday afternoon, the home team securing a | victory by 6 points to 3. Although the teams seemed to be evenly balanced as to strength, the Central boys had the best of it from the start, a number of force-downs having been got before the tries were secured. The ground was terribly "greasy," and it was quite a common thing to see a small boy make a determined kick a: tie ball, but before he could reach it the other leg would shoot baokwards, landing him on the broad of his back,