FOOTBALL.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 612, 25 May 1891, Page 3

FOOTBALL.

CUP MATCHES—SIXTY PLAYERS ON THE FIELD. Thkbi was a great crowd at the ground on Saturday, ladies especially being numerous. The weather was splendid. The . dressing shed erected by Mr Skeet is a substantial and very convenient structure. The matches played were too one-sided to be of great interest to the spectators. The Gisborne and Taruheru fifteens were first to get into action, Messrs Morgan and Walker noted as umpires, and Mr Harding as referee. Taruheru followed up the kick off with a good rush, but E. Murphy and Rees were out like a shot and in a very short time the Taruheru were forced down. Tui then, assisted by Madigan and Bingham, succeeded tn making work in the Gisborne So, but from that out the ma’ch was a sugarplum for Gisborne. The forwards were semi-specta-tors, for the brilliant work of the backs left the Taruheruans a disorganised mass. Rees, the Murphy brothers, Staite, Fisher, with occasional fillips from Skeet and help from Mowat on the line out, really played the game for Gisborne, while the Anchors pluokily maintained a forlorn defence. The dodgy runs of Rees and the Murphy bro’hers were splendid. Rees got in from midfield for the first try, but the angle was too diffi? cplt for a goal. Then Murphy got two tries within a snort time, Fisher converting them Into goals. A penalty kick nearly gave a further score. J, Murphy soon got over the line egain, a poster resulting ; Beet quickly followed suit, with the same result. Then Muiphy got a touch, which Fisher made a goal of. Skeet also got a clever touch, which Langiord prettify recorded as a goal, First ■pell, Gisborne 15 points to nil. Bees soon had a try in the second spell—no goal. Sikora ditto, Fisher Molting a goal. Murphy next, with another goal by Fisher. Then Murphy and Bees each got successful tries, the game finishing—Gisborne 23 to nil, The Tnranganui and Waerengs-s-hika caa’cn, which was going on at the same time. Was an rqually lopsided affair, the Turanganat tiling it all their own way—27 points to nil. h» town forwards played well, but thd backs require a lot of practice. In such a one sided gams it would not be worth while individualising. The Maori team seemed to lose all heart in the game after the first two or three tr|ea were obtained, and co the Turauganul got over the line without any great exertion at al). The following obtained tries for the Tnranganui side :—Hopburn, Matthews, Burns, Maude, Loomb, Nisbett, Eaton, Robinson, Sherriff, Hope, and Forest. Crawford kicked a goal in the first spell. In the second spell there were 5 goals kicked. Resers Day and Arundel acted as umpires, and Captain Winter referee, The great local game of the season will take slace5 lace next Saturday, when the Gisborne and 'uranganui Clubs do battle for the cup. The friends of either Club are very sanguine, and it will fee the most Interesting local match ever fought in the district*