ASSOCIATION NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 230, 26 September 1903, Page 4 (Supplement)

ASSOCIATION NOTES.

Otago has decided to send a team to meet Southland on October 14, LaJbour , Day. This "will perhaps be the last re-/ presentative matdi of the season. § The toon, treasurer of the Wellington Football Association has been promised a ten-guinea cup for inberprovincial competition by a firm in Dunedin. It is to be known as the St. George's OupWestern Australia baa inaugurated a cEarity competition fchos season. The cup offered is valued at 100 guineas. | The Otago "Evening Star" says: "Asbury, Auckland centre forward, from whom so much was expected, was simply a frost, or in the vernacular a 'passenger.' Sale, whom many consider the finest inside left-winger in the colony, showed thigh class generally; 'his failure to do anything wonderful was due to lack of support. Cowan played a slashing game." What was wrong with As'bury? Not generally csji 'he be justly called a "passenger." j The referee in the tourniamenit nratcnesj is described by the returned footballers as one of the best they have come across. Most of the Southern papers (seeon agreed about his- smartness, al- j though Tough play was not very firmly put down. Tire "Star" says: "But the final maitoh on Saturday against Wellington wiped a.way# a multitude of sins in Otago's Eleven. For two hours aanidj keen excitement, Otago battled witih t!he favourites for supremacy, and the hardest of cruel luck lost the maitch in thtf eloping minutes. It was a wefll j taken goal for Wellington without a doubt, but the corner kick from wfaidh! th 3 goal resulted was a glaring error onj the part of the referee. And it was a pity, because Mr Williams, who officiated in all three matches* gave a display of controlling a game otherwise practically perfoot." The poor referee never can do right in the eyes of the losing team! The Governor, after the gatme, presented the ahield to Wellington, and congratulated all concerned on tihe splendid play of the teams. The English football (Season was to liave started cm August 16, when tihe •mail left. The teams, almost withcuit exception, were putting in •particularly ctrong sides, and tfhe prospects for the were exceedingly bright. Thy tota.l of the London Footiball Associa-tion is 969 clubs in 21 j competitions. This is certainly a tire-| mendous mnnber, a,nd looking through; the clubs one as s>tmick by thflir ehnim'<jtftr! and wli'bre. The "Ablnlp-tic News"j ■writer says: "I can well understand that the Txindr"! "will not legalisie professionalism."