RANFURLY SHIELD

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 262, 23 August 1950, Page 2

RANFURLY SHIELD

FOOTBALL

FOUR CHALLENGES ACCEPTED (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, Aug! 22. Four challenges for the Ranfurly Shield were accepted by the management committee of the Canterbury Rugby Union this evening; and the dates for them 1 were allocated. The four challenges'accepted were from Wairarapa, to be played on September 2; South Canterbury, September 9; West Coast, September 16, and Duller, September 30. The challenges not accepted were from Taranaki, Wanganui and North Auckland. On September 23 Canterbury will play Wellington at Wellington. This will not be a. shield match. The chairman of the competitions committee (Mr R. W. Blazey) said the committee had recommended no matches on Wednesdays because it considered the season had already been heavy enough. When these challenges had been played the team would have played 12 matches for the season, and the committee considered that number was plenty. Mr H. C. Blazey said it was not fair to the players to expect them to play Wednesday matches, too. The team had been in training since May. NO CHALLENGE THIS YEAR BY WELLINGTON (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Aug. 22. Wellington does not intend to challenge for the Ranfurly Shield this season. This decision was reached at a meeting of the Wellington Rugby Union to-night, when it was decided to congratulate Canterbury on its' success. If Canterbury still holds the shield it is likely that Wellington will challenge next season.

ASHBURTON UNION MEETS MEMORIAL CUP DATE September 2 will be the date for the Dave White Memorial Cup, played for annually, between the winner and run-ner-up of the Ashburton Rugby Union’s senior competition. The teams who will meet this year are Celtic and Methven. The date will be a particularly busy one for Ashburton footballers for, in addition to the senior match, a junior representative team will visit Timaru, a third grade team will play at Christ church, and fourth, fifth, sixth grade, and midget representatives will play at Ashburton. Final arrangements were made for these matches at the meeting of the management committee recently. The annual seven-a-side tournament for all grades will be played on Sep tember 9. Framed photographs of the British Isles team and the combined Ashbur-, ton-Nofth Otago team were displayed at the meeting, and it was resolved to present these to the R.S.A., the Ashburton Club and M.S.A. and the North Otago Union, the committee keeping one copy. At the conclusion of the meeting Dr. M. J. Otley screened a movie film of the British Isles match at Ashburton, taken by himself. Saturday’s Draw The draw for Saturday is as follows: Seniors: Town v. Country, No. 1, 2.45 (Mr K. Hood). Second Grade: Town v. Country, No. 1, 1.15 (Mr D. Haskett)). Third Grade: Town v. Country, No. 2, 2.45 (Mr S. Lemon). Fourth Grade: Town v. Country, No. 2, 1.15 (Mr J. Bryant). Fifth Grade: Town v. Country, No. 3, 2.45 (Mr E. Grimmett). Sixth Grade: Town v. Country, No. 3, 1.15 (Mr N. Kelly). BRITISH TEAM FOR SECOND TEST SYDNEY, Aug. 22. The British Isles Rugby team for the second test against Australia, at Sydney on Saturday, is:—Full-back. Lewis Jones; three-quarters, Ken Jones, J. Matthews, B. L. Williams, R. MacDonald; five-eighth, J. W. Kyle; half, W. R. Willis; forwards, T. Clifford, K. D. Mullen, J. D. Robins, J. E. Nelson, J. R. G. .Stephens, J. W. McKay, E. R. Johns, R. T. Evans. Ken Jones replaces Malcolm Thomas, who suffered a fracture of his left shoulder in the first test: MacDonald replaces D. Smith, and Mullen, who missed the first test because of an ankle injury, replaces D. M. Davies.