LOCAL MATCHES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11285, 20 June 1904, Page 5

LOCAL MATCHES.

> - ;; — T }* * ■ ■ The football matches on SAurdar were played under the: most unfavourable con.ditions, the -ram -of the horning having, , thoroughly soaked "the. ground* wMoh were ■not- improved by the factTAhat some heavy Showers fell during the, a^tempoon:' Ther© jwere very few spectetoreijpresfent, on theißecreation Ground, tf&er,? the^Tgangaij^-,:. "and- PiraterCaHpge.Seiiw games • were played. * The foriper content was won ' Ib'y the Wanganui's by 6. points to nil, \ Waverley having a weak team, having to mlay three of four juniors, .The Pirate*. fookthe field wijkh ;<mly;' nijae jmejp,bujt en- . ■listed the services of a 'jjouple of juniorsl "s'B'iider these circumstatoc^a' it ' i» - not be wondered a,t th^t -th.c College, proved winning by" 2* to. iuL' ,The O^d % jßoys and T.Y,M.L's, played on- the College .Ground, which waSiin^a. fearful ptate, and ■ Icoinpletely spoilt what -would -have proved ]an interesting gam«. Tire T.Y.M.I/s were !two or three short, and suffered* defeat' tj fl7 point.B-to nil, after .ip exfeibi^ipn. which Afforded, considerable 1 ;rsmußemeht.,to'; r smuBemeht.,to' the ;=speciato»B if Inot to ;t^e;" players, who .w^er^ with mud and their colors veera rialmdsfc unrecognisable. . -It, $' a- lrondfT xithat no .accidents happened,, aa the^grouM .jwas so, slippery, thaf'fjt was almost- im{possible for the v players "to keep their fefjfr, ;^and they -were slipping* and sliding, in all '•• ' • v ' ' .W-