If our representativea are to learn * •anything from Saturday's encounter, and i •void a beating *t the hands of Auckland i »nd Wairarapa by anything less than 16 ■ joints, they will keep up praotice and gain ■ •ondi^on, they will turn out to a man, and ■ try^ -combine their forces; and with all i ttetf^ttihgf. let them get— what shall we ( * _,i wißdoißl * J^gJae* I ** brains, for i football oannot be played by rule of thumb, i Baf ore coming to individual play, we wonld , Kint out the mauy excellent Qhanceß lost - _ Nelaon ont£e tonolt Una by waiting till ' every one was in his place jon one occasion ■ a oartain try would have resulted had tha : back limply transferred the ball to either of \ hii two oomradea who were on the spot. , There waa only one exception to the general practioe of waiting, when Harkaesa, \ vwu-ing into touoh, afc once threw •ut and all but gained a point. The ■ •waajL -/are badly marked, too, for more J than once suoh dangerous men as Mow •tt and Hale got away undisturbed, j Of the Marlborough backs Pasley (full- ■ task) Bhowed fine dodging powera and i lacked well, though not very strongly ; his | •floliairing powers were not called into re* i -s-ÜBBt. W. Redwood (oentre three-quarter) , tnad a fine turn of apeed and dodged aplendidly ; he paßßed well but did not kiok, Ball (left three-quarter) had all his dodging poweri unimpaired and was too muoh for Infield to hold ; hia kicking wbb not by any means all that we were led tb expect, and hia three or four pots were weak indeed j he gained the only score for hia side by a atrong dash over the line at the corner flag. 0. Noßbitt (right three-quarter) wbb too well -shepherded by Harkneas ever to get a chance of Bhowing his fine kioking powers ; he re turned the oompliment by collaring hra man Redwood (left-half) did some excellent passing and stopped many a dangerous xuflh j he was. all there when the enemy tried to heel out. T. Neabitt (right-half), though not do-__ff.__3yt_u__ghrill*anfc, put in a lot of serviceable play and was alwaya there or there about. 