FOOTBALL ITEMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 10707, 2 September 1896, Page 2

FOOTBALL ITEMS.

The Taranaki Reps, have now gone through three seasons without a defeat, and in the Otago match their line was crossed for the first time in two years. " Burgoo" aud v Bagpipes" were some of ( the, appellations Tjeatowed on vthja,, Oiagb players on Tuesday. i I JLproniinent football enthusiast , was 1 seenVwaviog his arms frantically oiit of a^ cab 'window aB the special train crossed Devon-street, on Tuesday ) morning. When tha ' train' ' slowed^ down at Elliot-street Biding the enthusiast 4ndrthe 1 cab'i were the^,'7andTfittie former transferred himself to the train. On the way.idowa he recounted", how h"p misaod, and then beat the train. , ,:,-, „,j ( • $ptk* .Speq^ltrain opjTuesdßy.^r.P.'; R. Carthew v cql}ect^4 -^vk&sJ,P T :4 fund to ayepiaflef-the Union l)anner,, i t|i^|,'. < was" burned in the Hawera :: ' re< STRYI l<\ 8 A [ T }pM^«» c »«wg «nnot ba com B ; >ared to the local ground from a spectaiodßiSiian^oint.^ # a ~>i .L X < t ' Some of tho Otaga_players toot tneir )«ating wj^h bad fl and irereJngJinecl ;o argue' on" several matlers'in whlbn" they reckoned l tne'y'w'e'rd'ttggTifevtfd'.iTuS The Otago footballers went north on Tue.sday'Jiiglife--. 1-*1 -* I'^'ilo'j