FOOTBALL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 10708, 3 September 1896, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

X noticeable feature at the TaranakiOtigV match on Tuesday was the frantic barracking of a nuuiber of Wanganui visitor* for Otago. They seemed to think that Providence had ordained that they •hould be natural enemies of Taranaki, and the , unseemly way thsy behaved would lead any outsider to 'suppose that strained relations existed between the twq' districts. On top of this a writar to the Wanganui Chronicle gives what is called a report ef the match. The whole article is one tissue of mistakes (to put it mildly), and the writer sho*shis whole ignoranoe of the game by the lamentable way he has mixed up the ■corers' names. Ths reason of th« whole ' tiradt of abugQ'ia hard tt> efneeive, bat one can account for a little' of the bias when, one reads that " Farquay" Farquhank>n, of the Otago, team) showed a great deal of the .brilliancy %ii h« was celebratad for in the Wanganui football arena. It id & pity that the Wanganui players do not exhibit a return, of the form thwt' Mr Farquharson is credited with, and then they may possibly show a better front to Taranaki than they are in the habit of doing. As a matter of faot, ." .Farquay," to b» familiar, like the Wangahui writer, played the worst game in the Otago pack, and anyone - with % knowledge of (he game wondered how he came Jta be picked by a representative Union, wich the status of Otago. The ;writer Quly mentions "Farquay" among tfrs whole Otago paok, which consisted of eight men, and we therefore have to. conclude that the celebrated " Farquay" made things mighty interesting for Taranaki, and the reason that he .did »o, according to the Chronicled giffcxt scribftj is thai he showed that brilliant dash for which he was once noted in Wanganui. There were players in the Otago pack that were far ahead of " Farquay," but not a word is said about them, not even McLaren, who scored the second try. i. Duncan, the Ot9goi captain, is' 'described/ by the Chronicle writer as the personification of all that is good, either ia a footballe* or anyone else. That may be the Ohidnicle writer's opinion, but .everybody does not think alike . It is, however/ s, matter for congratulation that the orada, bitter, and venomous attack made on the Taranaki players is not the voice of the Wanganui public, and that those friendly feelings thit have always existed between the two provinces will not be disturbed, by this ebullition of malice on the part of one individual who has evidently, got "the loan " of a newspaper to vent his spleen. "Farquay," Duncan, aad the Ghronick writer are welcome to their frae advertisement. . , , , The gate takings- at the TaranakiOtago match on Tuesday were something over £60. -„,,! . The team chosen to represent Auckland against Otago on Saturday is as (follows ; —Full-back, D. Clayton } three-quarters,-Smith, Wynyard, AbsoUim ; fiveS-eighths, Elliott ;' naif, Edmonds ; wings, Laing, <R;!Oliphanb; for Wards} Swindle}, Handcock, McMillan, F. Murray, -MtoKenzie, Wilson, McLean \ emergency, Gjijlagher,