Fun in the Mud

Four inches of rain in four days saw the city's playing fields looking very lake-like one Saturday last month, but that didn't discourage Rugby, soccer and hockey players. Games with visiting teams were played to a muddy conclusion regardless of the sodden state of the grounds.

Hamilton boys were in town to play High School at rugger and soccer.

These pictures were taken at the Rugby game at Rugby Park. Gisborne won the mud-scramble.

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Gisborne player, watched by M. Murton, and chased by Waikato would-be tackler, scores in a flurry of water. Unfortunately the whistle had gone.

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Here's mud in your eye: St. John men attending to a blinded player

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Spirited game of ducks and drakes has referee blowing for set scrum

At the soccer ground in Childers Road reserve conditions were even worse, and Hamilton and Gisborne players had to plough through a sea of mud and water. It took the players a while to realise that whenever a ball lands in water it stops dead. The game of water-soccer ended in a draw, one goal all.

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Hamilton player sits down to it, while opposition toes ball through lake

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Grayson splashes in after ball

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After the game: Gisborne players wash mud off in convenient pool.

Amphibious Hockey

When the Kia Toa hockey girls came to play their match against a visiting Te Araroa team, the sun was shining, but a large lake around the south-east goal made goal-scoring virtually impossible there.

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Kia Toa attack submerges in a shower of flying spray.

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Te Araroa girls defend desperately in goal-mouth flurry.

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Game should have been played in bathing-suits