SPORT IN WAIRARAPA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 18 September 1934, Page 4

SPORT IN WAIRARAPA.

The season for winter sports is closing down —and, as far as football is concerned, players have put away their gear until the autumn. The season cannot be viewed with feelings of satisfaction by followers of football or by those who control the game in the Wairarapa. The play has been of a poor standard in the championship games, though one or two of the representative matches have provided bright football. Wairarapa is experiencing lean years after its prosperity of Banfurly Shield days, and until we can produce players of the Cooke-Mill-Corkill-Irvine - Willoughby - Harvey - Q. Donald stamp, we cannot hope to see the Shield again domiciled, in the Wairarapa. Because Wairarapa football is not of a high order to-day, there is nothing to despair over. Auckland lias had a longer period of lean years than Wairarapa, and so has Wellington, Otago and Canterbury—all in their best days invincible. _ Wairarapa’s turn will come again if the game is played for the game’s sake, and younger players are encouraged and coached. Hockey and golf have both experienced a very successful season, and there is a big future before these games, while Association football is on the soundest foundation it has ever been in the Wairarapa. The call to summer sport is now being made, and in this connection tennis and bowls will undoubtedly be the most popular pastimes. Cricket, at one time so. strongly entrenched in the Wairarapa, is experiencing a period where it is being found difficult to make progress, tennis in particular having made inroads upon it.