Show on an ideal day for football the salt lake team played tho eureka association football dub a team last sunday at the local ball ground and went don to defeat the score at the end game being 5 goals to 0 hundred and seventy five people who witnessed the game probably only ha that number had ever seen a game ot this branch of football before b it after witnessing bunday s there ie no doubt that the next tima the local team playa on the home ground that they will rot only come to eee the game bat wi 1 bring their friende and the success of the kicking game is assured in eureka THE GAME eureka won the toss and selected the west goal hobbs preferring to play ap the hill while his can still fresh the having the advantage of the s wind at their backs and the don grade of the field cia g kicked off for the bangers at 12 50 p m and eureka immediately took the ball into the visit ors territory and gave their custod an a merry time after about ten minute play from an open in front ot the visitors goal manlove rut one through which completely beat brown their custodian after this beveree the bangers seemed to pull themselves to gether and the miners stronghold was in danger several times but king was equal to the occasion and saved his charge twice la splendid style here a brilliant combined run by the eureka forward carried the ball into salt lake s front yard and a corner kick was awarded to eureka one of the salt lake players purposely bit the ball with bis hand within the penalty area which gave eu ka a free kics from the 12 yard line tha kick which was taken by bramley rebounded off the bangers goalkeeper but was immediately after sent between the uprights by Smet harst at the call of half time the deore stood 2 goals to 0 in the second half ho spere was set in motion by eureka and or the first ten minutes of this halt the ball was confined to the center of the field but it seemed as if the visitors were all in and soon eureka began to press avery attempt of the bangers to bieak through was frustrated by the splendid work of the miner a back division the second piece 0 combined passing in which elicited the applause of the spectators ended in a brilliant fin sh by manlove cracking it through the goal to the corn surprise of brown the man between two well placed free kicks by G herring were cleverly headed through the goal by bramley and time was called leaving the visitors completely kalso mined and eureka with 5 goals to her credit the changes made in the home team seemed to strengthen it all round but we wi 1 not compare the play of th boys as every one did himself proud while for salt lake and in the baak div sion and craig mi ler and ford among the forwards put up the best ex hibi tion ahe vi biting team came out from salt lake en the morning train over the san pedro by and returned home on the after noon train A few friends accompanied the players out from the capital it it hd been possible to have secured an ex cursione train there would have been at least a couple of hundred visitor to the camps of cintio |