FOOTBALL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3124, 23 July 1892, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

The second match between the Huntly and Hamilton Clubs will be played at NgariMwahia this afterncon. The following will compose the teams:—Hamilton : Fullback, J. Grey ; three-quarters—W. Hammond, W. Odgan, and J. H. Hume : halves -J. Wright, W. J. Gribble, and D. L Smart ; forwards— J. Gilletc, A. Cinaidy, W. Browne, J. Clnrkin, A. Peacock, K. Harrison, E. Williamson, and F. R. Seddon. Emergencies—Backs, G. Mayes and R. Gillett; forwards, A. Mayes and W. Moore. — Huntly : Full-back, "J. Siuper"; three-quarters—L. B. Harris and O. Lovell ; halves—P. Connolly, J. B. Harris, and D. Welsh ; forwards—F. Carter, T. Frost. J, Sampson, 0. Attrill, J. Attrill, J. P. Bailey, C. Smith, J. Montgomery, iind G. Morrison.—Cuptain Gall's Freetrader will leave the Huntly wharf at 12 o'clock sharp.—Mr J, Webster, of Auckland, will act as referee. TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Allow me to enter u mild protest against the evident wish of your Huntly correspondent to stir up '• bai blood " botween the Huntly and Hamilton football teams. Uβ professes to depljrethe amount of feeling displayed between the supporters of the respective team 3, but at the same time adds fuel to the flame by hi.s wonderful fabrications. I have seen the Hamilton team play in quite as many matches as your correspondent, but on no occasion have I seen anv of the ungßntlenianly conduct which cansm your v.rtu.us scribe so innch suffering. The players of either team should not he bliiinbd for the rowdyism dis played by the "barraekers," who are often urged on by the virulent scribbling of senn'tional " penny-a-liners."—l am, etc, Duop Kick. Mr K. J. Gwynne writes with reference to the paragraph which appeared from our Huntly correspondent on Thursday as to the conduct of the Hamilton football team. The writer has been intimately connected with the team as member, then captain, and then secretary for eight years, and is fully qualified to speak as to the general conduct of r.ha tea.m during that period. He says : " I was surprised to see the remarks of your Huntly correspondent in Thursday's issue as to the conduct of the Hamilton Football Club, which is described as a '' Win, tie or wrangle " policy. Up to the present season I have attended

us a spectator or player, with one or two excuptions, every match which has been played by this team for the past five years, and this is the first time the team has been so accused. Knowing your Huntly correspondent, I must say that I do nut think he is a competent judge, as I have never seen him on the ground while tho Hamilton team has been playing, and his information must be gleaned mostly from hearsay, which we all knoiv is not worth much. Until the Puterangi match, I have never even heard a charge of roughness against the team (I wish I could say the same of the other Waikato teams), and this has now been refuted by 'One Who Saw the Match.' I think it would be much better for newspaper correspondents if fchej' were

to strive to heal up any little differences among clubs instead of trying to create illfeeling.,'