FOOTBALL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11569, 10 July 1899, Page 3

FOOTBALL.

♦ A willing game is expected at Stratford on Thursday next between the Star and Stratford seniors. Tukapa meet Clifton in the Recreation grounds on the same afternoon. Line ura[ ring h becoming a very fi-ip art. 'J wo more pronounced extremes could not Lava been found than ia the weildeia of the flags in the match at Filzroy on Thursday. In the match played at Brisbane on Saturday, New South Wales defeated Queensland by 11 points to 5. The final game for the Christchurch senior championship wan played on Saturday between Linwood and Chriitchurch Cluba, when ihe former won by 3 points (a try) to 0. The snow, which fell dnriog the previous night, made the ground in a fearful state, and the game was chitfly v forward scramble. The weather during the jafternoon was fine, bub bitterly cold. The attendance was the linjeft yet Feen at a club match. Linwood has now won the championship fiv*> years in succession. W. Hardcastle, captain of the Sydney Club, and late of Wellington, has been disqualified for six weeks for refusing to abide by the decision of the referee in the match against the Buccaneer Club. Anothsi member of Hardcastle's club, reported for striking the referee after the match was fini&hed, has betm disqualified for life. J. Grimes, a forward in tbe Buccaneer team, who nas injured in the match in /. hich Hardcastle was disqualified, died at St. Vincent's hospital. At the inquest the jury returned a verdict of accidental deatn. '1 he Id jury was paralysis of the back. J. H. Sampson, the ex-Aufkland rep., has settled in Brisbane.