FOOTBALL.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVIII, Issue XXV, 21 June 1902, Page 1274

FOOTBALL.

GRAFTON ». PONSONBY. The prr«speets of a good ghrite between these two teams br 'ught the largest rrvwd of *be season to Pox* ter’s on Saturday. Play was exciting f>r the first ha’f-honr of the game, but after that slow forward play was rhe chief thing indulged in. Grafton attacked strongly from the start, and from p’ay in Ponsonby'a 25 M -Ker rie scored by a clever feinting run. and Thomps«?n converted. Play was very even the rest of th* n-areh. Porsoni-r making several good efforts to score. But Grafton’s defence was too good, and the game ended in their favotsr by five points to nil. McKenae. Dirk McGregor, and King plaved well in the back di vision for the Biaek-and-Whites. while in the front rank Brady (2» and McCormick were always prominent. F>r Ponsonby 8. Riley. Cariaw. and McCall had a lot of work to do. and got through it weiL Donring and Francis were the t»est of a good pack. CITY v. SCBVBBB. Citv won easily by 1» ponrts to 5Asher and W. Tyler scored -wo tries each, and Young converted two. AbsoAum and WorraU scored for Suburbs. PARXEIX v. NORTH SHORE. Parnell registered their first win this season by defeating North Shore bv S points to nib Innes kicked s penal»v goal and Foster got a try. f-om which McCar-hy kicked a gz-ai. SECOND FIFTEENS. Grafton beat Ponsonby by IS points to nfl. City defeated Suburb# by 3 points to nih

THAifES FOOTBM.V X.*>rax f W25 ccnfined t® jtarl©rs os SstsT’iay. ewisifr w xfee Thames vzs7t=< Kzrangzhake. yy wc-z. fT-c-rr* Native Raae H. by «e£atdt. Rovirs UL met and -iefeatel Tinzz by $ gotzts t® sf’- •ecsrg & trvf sxkA wiTiazss lazktsc a pezaTry T2ia. f-xr-n Tree Blzes sz-l Native Riise ITT- rviszlze4. Is * draw. iae£tzez’ side seortzsi. THAMES V. KARANGAHAKE. t^-.x aset oa Sazarixy. rhe z.irez±*z-ze &eis« Lange. The gaxz* a a, iz. os*. re—roiled iz. a viz for Tzazzis by 5 zc<iita to L-s’_jrg- scared a try for zze wizz ers. Mzi-eas kicked. & per-aLTy aar >-£t-ike zad tze better of gzzze forward, bar the Tkazzes backs shewed teeter Mr F»- Sizrzzax vis PAHROA FOOTBALL. The czzp zoatcries were csMsz2a»ed t-z evezr azid coGtesE. both, slise seczrtzg tXr-e« yctzis. Parley scored for S'—zzirz-s, aad ITetzazz for EasL In the =-ecc-zz spell a cxSEtsderabie aivazzage, az-L W. Serer.aez. Co-LA, aad J. Coote scored fries, ore of wzAz Bromwich etMEvertedscored fir Stabarbs frzrz. a zire r"~- az-z the grzne ez-fe’f tz fav-rzr of East by 11 k i Sczee very z 22« P-ay was sh-Gvz. czrizg the g»w. G-7-i-S'vZza.r &z 4 Szzi-z. pLayizg exceAent hack gaxss for Szruros. azd Br-vsaz azd Coote for East. The WaJXckAzrl azd played the Sebo*?l CEub there, dafeatizg thena by S 3 potzts to nl'WATHI FOOTBALL. The sezLOT cizb matches were ©BEsaoed oz Satiirday afzerz »a. City zzeezcf West Mr JEKeotieer. ©* AccklAadL was referee. The tc-se was won by 'W’est, and as Soos a* the leather ras-e into play the City forwards kept the Woes besy oa defezee. the Laser’s efforts to relieve being fur.le A free kick, however, allowed tzett. to make tae ■•are ©pea. C2ty backs, rinsing into pstasessEi-zzi of the Leather. adapted the oszai s*>mr. passtzg g*3xae. the ktaes beuag- eosapeAed to force •hortly after. The blaeics from t&i* out ogLjay carried zze game their ew> way, cizetr opponents' backs being bexpSesa in defence cr attack. Their forward*, however, dkd good work. From a Itae-oot Bispaa sheared aad smartly passed to PktLkpa. who traaafarred to Flett, and the iaxxer. nuHrrr a dodgy ran, neored ftrst teheed for the b'arhn Lardy failed to eowrert. City A Went nlk Sbartky after Che bhaea again were eempeiled te force.

A few micuu, Ater Gwrvey aeor«4 from * >o<»e acrum oppMita Ma agpawrnu' goal Laa-Jj converted. City K Waat uSi. TcwarSa the end ot the CVtil McKay a c.ever rat a2c&< the Una, reciatevtag anetber score for City LenJy again eoavertei City SA Wert ML In the aec-o.-d spei! play was of an uMntereattr K cizaraczer. City having tie best ot tha game Tee Wee pack worked hard to score. From an open rush PaLiipa took the ova’. neaCy. scoring renr t'ae comer Sag to convert. City 1A West sik The wHMIe sounded shortly afterwards. By litis win ot Ctty tie cup teomes their prvdterty agnin. Wynxtthe fuT-tack of the West team, received a nasty kick tn the tert- pre.enting him from takmg an active part tn the latter porti-xs of the second spell- Mr Heather gavw every sattslaczi .r. as reiezee. Ott No. t ground Suburbs ."zzzors defeated City by 11 to nO- Mr Hilt was referee. Wast Jtas l ora travelled to « azki_z>, where they wers defeated by J to niL FRANaLTN UNION. Pukekohe snet and defeated Tua Mau co Saturday on tbs litters ground by sfx points to nt’ It was a hard-feugilt gam a no score resulting tn the d-st spel— In the serznd spell the Pckekoke beys rained. and kac-t Tuakatt on the defensive most of the time, K Kake and D. Bake scoring one try each, neither of which was converted. Mr Knox bad charge of the whistle. Pukek-z-ise jtnxfors also defeated Tuakau T-’n’oro by M points co nil. fairly overrorr.ing them. For the w.r.ners the fei-Ira-Eg scored tries:—W. Czispe ID. Boulston 2. A- star, ley A Fawcett L MWright L and J. Reyals L W. Crisps converted one try sad kicked a gnoi trexn the field. Mr J. Rz-uistos gave general sab star tic., n as referee. This Is the third Saturday in succession that Fukekoks ras won. the double, finishiug tha first round at club matches, SOUTHERN PH * MP; nNcPTTP MATCHES. On Saturday Panake (Ii beat Old Beys (MI». The mated, between AthJetie an-3 Oriental was pzatpeued. through rssn. On Saturday Vniversity beat Dunedin by i paints to X Alhambrs heat Union by 13 points to —IL Kalkara (H peenm) beat Pirates (nil). Zingari G pmats’l beat Southern if points,. The game was ped with eight missies to gn. owing to bad Sight. The result of the game is to be dazlded by the Rugby Union. Sessior footbar on Saturday provided two surprises, Mertvale, wits a number of oid bands in the team, bent Albion by ~ j»izzrs to S. Irtng kicked a goal from the Seal for Merivaie. Xaswoed. who are leadi.-g tsr the cbaznptenship. eossld estly drauf with Sydenham, no sccre 'being recorded. Chrtstc-aurch beat Old tSof-* k-y