FOOTBALL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4491, 1 August 1893, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

[By Damocles.] ' In the triumphal winning of tho match of the New Zealand boys over New South Wales onSnturday, Gray scored two tries, Latnbie and Gage one each, and Jervis potted a goal, The four Waiwrapa men are specially mentioned in tho reports as playing grand games, and D'Aroy as full back gave his opponents a rare taste of his undoubted quality, The game, owing to the wet state of the ground, was a forward pne, which suitedGrty and Watson especially well, and the Sydney Daily Telegraph-stated that the new men played up to their high reputation. • On Sunday, the-Wakatipu, with tho New Zealand football team, sailed for Wellington at 10 o'clock. Mr Oar* ruthers, M.P., speaking at the farewell to the visitors, eulogised the gentlemanly and sportsmanlike manner in which the team had comportediftemselves throughout the tour. Tho trophy piesented by two Sydney residents for the best all-round player among tho New Zealand team has been awarded to Bayly, of Taranaki. An enthusiastio crowd witnessed the departure af the visitors.

The Mangatainoka schoolboys played a return football match with the Pahiatua boy's'on Saturday, the game being closely contested, and onding in a victory for Mangatainoka by four points • to nil, For the visitors Wilson, Whangaroa, and Grant played well, Benzie and Shanahan being the best of the home team. In a former matolMPahiatua beat Mangatainoka, so: tkjK, final game will probably be playWhortly. Messrs Cowles and Darrock' deserve great credit for the manner in which they have trained their boys in tho game.

The following team will represent the Orientals in their match against Carterton on Thursday next, on tlio Park Oval;-Fullback, Follingkam; three-quarters, Bennett, Cole, Jackson; halves, Smith, Richards, Webb • forwards, F. and C. Wellington, War' ner, Doughty, Savers, Gardner, Uowsor, Greathead, Emergencies. Henry and Wickens.

The following will Greytowo 2nd in their matchmtrae Star 2nd :~A. Board, Quin, Smith, Brunton, Knowlos, Welch, Smith 0 Udy,' Ferrick, Holland," Humphries' Maguire, Oliver, and Haigh 2)i Emergenoies-F. and Danger