FOOTBALL TEST.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 215, 7 September 1912, Page 9

FOOTBALL TEST.

SPEW SOUTH- WALES V. NEW ZEALAND DEAN'E PLAYS UNDER "PROTEST.

Th« New Zee.la.cd League «rpresen<tatives who are to play the tonring New South Wales team under Northern Union .rules to-day left their training camp at Mil ford Beach at 1.30 this afternoon, to trawl direct to the Domain Cricket Ground. The Australians -were driven up from the city between 2 and 2.30 p.m. Of tihe fifteen men who were chosen , to practice for the Dominion team, 'the selectors ifoa.ve decided that Kyle (the Tum-msLkii forward), and Reke (the Rotonia fiv>e-eigh.fch) shall stand down. "All of them have been doing such good work in tra'in.mg," said, the coach (Mr. <>ro. G'illetit) "Chat it is a pity every owe of fifoem cannot play.' . The poiirt of most interest, so far as ■concerns the personnel of tie Xew South Walv-s team, is that Beame is to play at centre tluiee-qua-Pter. On Thursday nigkt t.he <."ounoil of the N«w Zea.la.nd League decided to stand Deane down j untiil 'the. end. of flue tour for striking <'urra« in the matoh against Auckland province last .Saturday. Yeeterda.y afternoon a conference, took place 1>?----tween tlh« manager of the visiting team and .rep,rcs«n'tia>tiv«e of tihe N«w Zealand Council, and as a result it was agreed that J>isane should .play under I protest of the New Zealand League. Thu j cqncFFi»;<;in was Tnatle purely as a -matter of- Rpo.Trtt»?na!i»hh). Having two centre ■tJiiTec-qiiiivrtiprs invalided a.t Ro.tcrua, the .X«\v Semtli Wnlee offi-riale stalled that they would not be properly represented im tV;« pr»:.'i.ir,n unless Deene wae allowed to pliy. Consequently, the , ganie could , not be reff.-ird«l aa a tes-t. Thai i*t"t-tle.d thr- iirjriiiTverrl. Amd the dfwwiion .indiciited wan arrived at. Particulars of the 11. p will \,n refeiTed to t.He X-ew £'.->Uith Walr«i l.eatnie. and the pneition at pre.»«nt U that Dipane 'is only to play in 'to-day's te.-: match.

Mr. R. Oliphant is refereeing the game.