FOOTBALL.
The following team has beon picked to repreeentthe Puninnnla agsinst Canterbury —Buchanan, L. Vangioni, Marriott, Smith, Wight. B«uiford. J. Thacker (Capt), 0. W. Cnw, J Newbigan Hnletein, Grant, Henderson, Wntkina and H. Mason. Emergency—W. Kearney.
Our football correspondent " Forward " wiitos :— It wap fully expected that the Selection Oommitiea would hive a hard task in choosing the PoninauU Represen* tilive I em *ure no previous selection has evoked more criticism than that which was made night. There in no doubt (list the Clubs on the Peninsula nre tn blame for this second-rate team. Thy they elects playing members to select the teaus is ft mystery. It is but natural, wheiher euit»ble or not, they select themselves and the sooner this is amended the batter will be the reeults in the future*
The election in the back division which caused the aunt mirprine was (he \r\nJa., sion of Smith, of Lβ Bon's Cln'o. Why lie line been selecied I cannot understand ; I bid sure it is not on his merits as a foothnllur, nnd fc'ie only conclusion I can anive nt ia thai it wan on his own recommendation of his pugilistic powers. V*neioni has been trofecied to fill the plnceof Tripe, who is unable to get away Why Viingioni w«b left out. in the first place is beet known to tha Committee themselves. He is undoubtedly the beet thrae-quarter on the PeD'.nsnla.
A great improvement could also have been made in the forwiird division by playing 0. Nurbey in place of J. Thackor. Tuacker, of course, being one of the Match Coramifc'ee. naturally saw that he wbr choeen and also made Captiin — a position which should h**e been allotted in Wight, who is the only one oapable of filling the position with credit. Another surprising feature id that the Okain'e Club, which is third on the liet of Cup matches, furnishes the largest number of representatives, and the Lβ Bon's Club, wnich i"h i*»Ht. actually supplies two, while L't'le River, the second, has only a solitary representative
No dcubt, nucb as they are, they will do their utmost, and T hope to hear a good account of them when tney meet their opponents.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2078, 14 August 1896, Page 2
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363FOOTBALL. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2078, 14 August 1896, Page 2
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