FOOTBALL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 249, 17 October 1908, Page 14

FOOTBALL.

(BY ACTION.)

RUGBY. / I' The Australian Rugby team is making a good showing at Home, but the tour mapped out for them is a bit strenuous, and they are called upon to play no loss than three matches in live days. On Thursday they met Neath and Aberavon; j •to-day (Saturday), Llanelly; and on j Monday. .Monmouth County. I A. E. Wood, of Cheltenham, the English Rugby international full-back, has transferred his allowance to the North- j crn l.'nion game, and has signed on for I Oldham. Nanson, an international for-1 ward, is also to play for Oldham. According to the "Athletic News." a num- j ber of notable Rugby unionists have forsaken the amateur code. I ASSOCIATION. It is stated in Wellington that there is every prospect of a South Africa As- | sociation football team visiting New ' Zealand as soon as the Sew Zealand j Association can arrange a tour. It will j be remembered that a committee was j formed several months ago to discuss j the financial side, it being eventually decided: "That the N.Z.F.A. would be responsible for the fares and accommodation of not more than fifteen players, or fourteen players and a manager, j from Capetown to New Zealand, through J the Dominion, and back to Capetown; that the team should be prepared to | spend seven or eipht weeks in the Domin- I ion; that the N.Z.F.A. be entitled to all gate receipts and profits of any other description, and to be under no further liability than as mentioned: and that only a first-rate team be sent. An exchange now intimates that the secretary, Mr Salmon, has received a cable message stating that the South Africa executive hart approved of the proposal, and that a meeting had been called for 30th October to decide tbe question definitely. They asked the association to cable the probable date for the departure of the team. At a recent conference at Dunedin tbe pro- | posal fo invite the South Africans was j approved, but it was considered that ; the year 100!) was unsuitable for a tour, because of counter attractions next year. The council of the New Zealand Foot- j ball Association is to consider tbe whole question at an early date.