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Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13462, 29 June 1907, Page 7

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Our Eltham correspondent wnte& : — At Hawera on Saturday" the home, team made a cake-walk of their match against Kaponga, scoring 55 to nil. On paper this looks like a terrific "doing," but when one learns that the defeated played' eight thirds, who had previously, played a hard game, the gloss goes off the victory and the blues are to be commended on seeing. the game through. Kaponga has tost its hold on the junior championship/ which now' looks a' good thing for "Waimate, but all the' thirds towiq i»thnTnr Tift^" .f**<~- «^ see|f awing, a win one Saturday and a k£» i the next. The writer has nqw^een>< allI the teams atggtfi# £n4%nliesita|mgfy \ pltittups for Knffife&Mas ,ihe jbest h&K vti. \ theTParanaki division, with BuHot next' best. It will jiotjbe Jong ere the North v. South fixtur«*ome& round/an 4 & few games* like i Thursday's must result in the Ingl«Fo£>& player getting the position. — ■*•*—— - .-- <~ ' Messenger, the N.S.W. three-quarter, is evidently atyopviiai idol. ' \t)ne:Sydney paper, reporting the secorid match New South Wales r. Queensland,^ speaks of him as "the soaring Messenger," and referring to a { try he got, remarks : — •*'It was the work of an indiarubber drti^ fnd^drew down great applause." fi^ its notes the same paper says;*— \tHy CMdSßenger , isolated . to the wing, was .the., star back in the contest. . He wasiusf as much IW Home on the wet ground skndt wi^h greasy ball as he usually, i» under perfect conditions. A pMyef* 6f J unus*ual all-round ability, Messenger is far quicker to perceive an 1 openings Jbara-pogsibility of att&cky&ad ¥ar -quicker to make. Use^pf the opening* than any of bis v contemporaries. TBis o^uickhess of "mind and fo6t, and lii»vcha*racteristic originality,, confound his critics, who, accustomed to the mechanical in football, are Jtlttable to eiisber follow or appreciate Jiis, clever play."' And much mortr to thh same effect. Messenger mustJbj^iwhat.is known in football parlance^&s. a "dandy." r.^»JJL.i.f -