FOOTBALL

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IX, Issue 2571, 7 June 1909, Page 2

FOOTBALL

Maura defeats .waitbtb. -JJYjFIVE.TO.NIii/. The weather conditions wore, any: thing but favourable for football on Saturday, as it was showery. all the afternoon. It raiuftd boforo the time of starting, and a heavy shower just after tho start mado tho ground slippery and the ball greasy. A lurgo crowd, however, ventured out to wit-/? ne-ss tho gamo.s Mataiira won the toss, and from the liicli oil' Waitete forced tho pace, plac - ing tho Maroons on the defence. For the lirst .ton minutes Mataura could, not srt ii'iO out of their, twentyli'.vfiinil it Mkml us though the Blue and. WhiiifcTfiust scoro. The game was of a scrumming nature amongst tho forwards, wtos, however, would persist in trying to liandle the ball instead *' keeping it at their too. Johnson find ■ Bahr, in turn, relieved the pressure, but tho Blue and Whites forwards, headed by Henderson and Keven, got almost on tho line. Hero Morpeth ' ' got over, but an infringement brought him back. Waitete forced the Maroons on a couple of occasions. For fully a quartor of an hour Waiteto had practically all their own way, but luck seemed against them. From tho kick out the Maroons seemed to warm up to their work for the first tiino, From >■ the line out B. Moore broko mvnv, and being supported by.Truscolt and ,Goriloii, earned play to tho Ditto nhilWliites twenty-live. Several' scrums hero gave tho Maroons chances, but wild passing spoiled thorn; Hero Gordon, who was playing a fino gamo, had . ; tiro misfortimo to twist his kneo, and had to retire, Cooper (a junior) going on in his place. From tlio loose .iji Waitete's twenty-iivo Bateman snapped up, and whipped out io Johnson; the latter, cutting in niceFv botwoen sovoral Of the Blue and Whites, scored ay clever try between the posts. Power" made no mistako with the kick, from tho kick off play was even for a time till Morpeth got away, bui was grassed by Power. Calderwond tried to pick the ball up, but it was too greasy, Had lie hold it he must have not over, hockyer and Keven beaded a rush close to the line, bill trying t 0 handle the ball ■ spoiled another chance. From the

swum I lie ball was sent out to Diilrtv, lint llaleman brought him down <i»idly. and Day and J. Mooro carried pinv to midfield, where Gray and Truscott joined in, and Urn ball travelled the length of (ho field, Ijoforo it went out, Hose to Waiter's line. Tlio ball wasv hooked by the Maroons, but shot pasttlm half buck, where Henderson got round mid kicked to Power, tlio latter returning. Play lmnji about midfiold for some time, with little advantage lo either sido till Truscotl and Hamilton headed a dangerous rush, .which was swept over the line, a force resulting, a lid tlic hell rung. The hall had to go out of play before the spell ended, and Morpeth got in a short kick. Henderson imd Kevon got on ihe leather, and rushed it down the field, reaching the other twenty-five before Powef. kicked it out. &

The second spoil was commenced bv' be Maroons attacking solidly for some jiine, but numerous penalties against them spoiled some splendid opportunitics. Ino players of Ijotli sides wore again in fault in trying to handle the ' ball, and eonsaijucntly a couple of good chances of scoring were lost. For the irst twenty minutes of this .spell Walteto only got the ball past midfielfl once. Another shower in this spell spoiled nnv chance whatover of tlio ground or hall drying at all. Plav wasU mostly confined to the forwards', amP only occasionally would the backs get going. On one occasion Grav whipped tho ova out to Bateman, to Johnson.' I be latter cut m nicely, and but for slipping, would probably have got over. ■Shortly after Johnson marked in a g'od position. Power took the kick, hut veven stopped ii with his hud, lower also had another attempt firm a difficult angle, but the ball fell short. Caldcnvood, with a good kick,'found . the lino near the Maroons' twentymo, and Honderson and Sullivan r'u>Ld close to the lino, causing the Maroons Mine anxiety, but it was only moniuiwily. From tho line out Hamilton got possession, and, putting down at Ins too, I ruscott .joined, and hooted well down the field. Johnson chased it, and kicked to'the twontv-five, where Morpoth snapped up. The latter was 'linekly grassed by Johnson, and had any of tho Maroons been handy a score must have resulted. It was a splendid bit of play on Johnson'!) part. I'rom a scrum hero Daldy transferred play to midfiold. Caldenvood got uosscssion, hut Cooper, colliding with ffin, the former was temporarily disabled, Another sweeping rush by' the Blue A ir by McConnell and • Morpeth, again raised the liopo of their supporors, but Johnson, who was doing some brilliant line kicking, sont iheni back, Thus the spoil progressed, being exceedingly even for tlio last quarter of an hour, hut no further scoro resulted, and the game ended— Mgtaura, 5; Waitete, 0, Mr. Mcliobie was referee.

, notes and comments. v ' I" HV LOOKER-ON;-"] Saturday's match was the conclusion 0 tlio second round, mid places the 1 tint'o tennis 01; an t'fjuaF looting with • two wins and two loses each. This proves that there is nothing botween tbe teams, and tho players of tlio three nubs will no doubt put renewed energy »il° their work to secure tho muoli io\etod cup, so that tho next andiwuchiding round shouy produce some keen mid exciting football. There J:',. I ' ! ">yver be a spell of live weeks ■ " lu third round commences ''KM'g to representative matches, ns lie retired players meet, tllO 1* next Saturday j V |,i|e 0 n the following Saturday To Me play t | lo | OM , rops b 1 hi. Jheso mutches are to be ! , •> ' V '. imr °a (at Wailii), Waikino KmSkV Ki "' :lllgalli,ko "as loaded joi- « 1 U> for tlio past week- with a good - rn'i'iM "{ 1 '• as teams are wpab e of showing attractive football t m j' ' m .° t'i« lain, however, put that out of tlio question. Waitoto ' Mem unfortunate in striking wot Satui- , t , linn ollt of four 0 tneii matches have had to be plaved ' 0 be gaino needs littlocom- : "n't, as it resulted m a struwlo bc- - • Mrdß tcn! »l With J ten passing runs. Maiaura, as usual V Cn -coll s l)icuolls for n ' tli' i ti! ° li ' is a pity lu the players will not remedy this' as not only being disastrous to thoir ft 11 • s .l"| lls f tIl o gamo from a specta,,t • 1)0 'li °/- vm - T,,61 '0 was littlo between tho teams, and tho noints incf *«t imlte. tl« j'EC't ■ mils bo remembered, howover, that "aitete wore without tlio services nf throo of their best in Cl i, vi z Co ; Ma, and lleatli, Ail/ES^ lield, best avail « , jlo toam in tlio ; Jot the winners, all tlio backs plavedl m in!! HV brtut oV , e "' uith «le'eruption of Johnson, who was tho best back on the ground. In the,forwards??, Irusco t, Hamilton and B. MooroAvi l^ about the best of a splendid pack. OTr-s dojnvnsun l having to leave tlie'-q ti i°i" as 1 % uig " 600(1 game. .4 tl, » losers, Morpeth, Daldv, andt S w ° O / TO ' 6 # c l' ick of the backs, ;?! ot!ii „"; lorsoi \' Km b 1,11(1 Sullivan '4 IJ,i f' m ° 3 /' P r, ?n»inentl,v \t 'orward division. jKft Saturday muoh-talked-of Sj* tho rffy, and retired I P ayors will eventuato. •. The retiredH players have bebil' injure training''!® and tiioy assert mat they are as good'as ti m <ji, and promise the younger a busy ti®e. Judging by the fcctots are wiling and flit

• taken iu tlio match a vocord gato should result, providing tlio woather- koopline.. , Tlio soloctor (Mr. R. McWhirkr) Has cliosou his first and last teiujrt, us In tnkcs his' dopftrturo for Cliristehurch during tlio wcok. Tlio team is as follows:—Full, Power; lliree-i|uartoiN Morpoth. Johnson, Hyde; livf-oiylitlu-Duluy, Joughiii; half, Dance; wing. Truscott; forwards, Gordon, T. Dare. Noonan, Ilnniilton, J. Sullivan, Keven. Saunders. Emergencies: li. Moore. Heath, Noakfs (forwards); Hateinan. Castleton anil O'Toole (barks). Taking tlio team all round it is a suliii combination, and considering tlio task tlio selector lias had lie lias eome out »i tlio ordeal vei v well. There seems to bo a woiK'.al of coininent at llie i mission This player is n bllrifenl lonuriiT'tiid should gain liis rep. Tlio loam should bo a ht' nutTw the rotirod players to cracked will, in my. opinion, win.

KATIKATI v. JUNIOR HEI'S.

The above teams tried conclusions on Saturday, and aft,or a close and exciting game resulted in a draw, each side scoring (> poins. Oatcs and Young scored tries for Wnilii, and Johnston Price for the visitors. Mr. Moor hail charge of the whistle, and ably con trolled the game. MATAURA 111 v. WAITKTK 111. Waitete met and defeated Mnlaiira **by three points to nil. Hales scored a try for the winners. Mr. Moor also reforml this match, giving general .satisfaction. AUCKLAND MATCHES. Special to the Daily Telegraph. AUCKLAND, this day. The district championships of the A.lt.U. were continued at Alexandra Park and North Shore, when the lifth round of matches was played. The weather was showery; ami the ground and ball wore both wet. The attendance was poor. Following are the results:— Ponsonby 32, University 3; Parnell, 11; Grafton, 3; Nprtli Shore, 27; Newton, nil. The positions for the championship stand as follows: Pon- , wiiby, 10 points; City, 8; University. I; Grafton, I; North Shore, 2; Parneil. Newton, nil,