FOOTBALL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 142, 15 June 1908, Page 7

FOOTBALL.

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FIRST MATCH AT WELa^INGTON.

•Ey Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)

WELLINGTON, Saturday. The first game under the Northern "lugby Union rules in the Dominion was jlayed at the Athletic Park this afterloon in fine weather, and before an attendance of over seven thousand people. the New Zealand representative All rSlaeks, just returned from their tour of England and Australia, were reinforced or the ' occasion by several old-time uugby players. An interesting, open janie. was the result, the ball being kept m the move practically the whole time. Ihe A team won by 55 points to 20. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Ail three daily papers comment on the Northern Union rules as a decided improve ment on Rugby, and making for i much faster and more interesting jame than the ordinary Rugby contest. Several prominent Rugby officials, interviewed on the subject, mostly admitted ;hat something must be done in tne same lirection, especially with regard to the Liiesome stoppages caused by the ball .oing out of play at the side" lines, and also in the reduction of long useless scrummages.