Saturday 22 June - East Melbourne
Crowd - Unknown
Melbourne 1
West Melbourne 1 (half time 0-1)
Match drawn
Goalkickers: Will Sandilands 1
Charles Baker had Melbourne's first chance of the day in the opening minutes, but hit the post from 20 yards out. West Melbourne went down the other end and scored a behind, but from the kick-in they marked and scored the first goal of the afternoon.
Melbourne botched a number of good chances on goal and went into half-time a goal behind. Sandilands finally made a chance count and got Melbourne's first goal. They spent the next few minutes threatening but couldn't break through again.
Best were Downes, Houston and McKie.
Selected team
Baker, Batterbury, Bennie, Birtwhistle, Boys, E. Cook, JV Cook, Cooper, Downes, Houston, Kitz, Longden, McKie, Houston, Nicholas, Sandilands, Sherard, Sillett, Tennent, Waldron, Wills. Emergencies - Macdonald, F. Page
Media
Weekly Times - 22/06/1878
Argus - 22/06/1878
Argus - 24/06/1878
Australasian - 29/06/1878