TARANAKI DEFEATS CANTERBURY BY 5 TO 3.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9839, 4 September 1899, Page 1

TARANAKI DEFEATS CANTERBURY BY 5 TO 3.

CHRISTCHURCH, September 2. Tho football match Taranaki v Canterbury was won by Taranaki by 5 points to 3. Tho weather was splendid, and there were no serious accidents. The game was hard-fought throughout. Canterbury proved superior in the first spell, and tho ball was scarcely out of the visitors' quarters, Taranaki forced down six times, but no score was gaineu by either side in the first spell, thougli Canterbury went near scoring twice. A passing rush botwoen Forbes, Balch, Menzies and Orr (who replaced Orchard) ended in them being collared on the lino, just aa the boll rang for half time, and Burrell mado a pot, which touched a man and grazed under the bar. The second spell saw Taranaki on the attack most of the time. Brown scored a try, which was converted by Lambie for Taranaki. Dansey kicked a penalty for Canterbury. The junior representative match, Wairarapa v. Hawke's Bay, resulted in a win for Hawke's Bay by 11 points to 4. A useful, though not particularly interesting, "rep." match, was held on Saturday, when the "chosen" defeated the second "reps." by 23 points to 6. Tho Auckland Second Fifteen, in a football match, defeated a Tauranga team by 12 points to nil. There was a good attendance. In the Third Class Cup match between tho Old Boys II and Pirates on Saturday a well-contested gamo was played, neither side scoring and a draw consequently resulted. The Old Boys therefore win the Cup. A team of boys from the Patea school played tho Wanganui Boys' School on Saturday and' wore defeated by 9 to 5. Tho Canterbury Rugby Union, has docided that if a New Zealand football team visits England it should be entirely under tho auspices of the New Zealand Rugby Union, and, with this ■condition, favours the proposal of a New Zealand team visiting- England.