FOOTBALL.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 95, 22 April 1922, Page 18

FOOTBALL.

RUGBY. J. Moffitt, New Zealand centre forward is going to play for Oriental Club in Wellington again. Jack Spencer, Rigby, Tancred, J. Scott, all old League prayers, have been reinstated, and will take part in Rugby in Welfirigton this year.

J. Tilyard, ex-New Zealand captain, who played for Wanganui last year, is back in Wellington and likely to turn out for Poneke.

G. Aitken, New Zealand's captain in two Tests last year, will play for Victoria College until August, when he leaves for England to take up his Rhodes scholarship.

la the first New Zealand team that ever visited New South Wales, in 1884, there was a great full-back in Braddon, afterwards Sir Henry Braddon, a muscular forward in Allen, now Sir James Allen. It was the same team that contained Jack Tahvroa and Joe WaThrick.

K. Ifwersen, ex-Northern Union player and New Zealand representative fixe-eights in the third test, has shifted from Taranaki to Auckland. Last year, Kingston, New Zealand representative, full-back, and Campbell left Auckland for Taranaki and found places in the Taranaki representative.

Football shows signs of "booming in Taranaki this season. Entries for the various competitions throughout the province 6how an increase in all grades. In all 71 teams have nominated, viz., 9 senior A, 6 senior B, 22 fiTst junior, 17 second junior, and 17 third junior. All the junior grades have been divided into three divisions—North, South, and Central. NORTHERM UNION. Mr. W. Kelly, who is one of the delegates from the .-New South Wales Rugby Football League to visit New Zealand in the interests of the code, is ;_n >ex-flfew Zealand repjesentatrvcentre three-quarter. He was a member of the New Zealand team that toured Australia in 1913. Returning there, he was elected as captain of the Balmain Club', and he brought that club's senior team from a weak position into chani(pionship honours, and won the New South Wales premiership for two successive seasons. He also represented New South Wales and Australia against the 1914 English team, afterwards going with the A.I.F. to France, where he was severely wounded. Mr. Kelly is an old Westport boy.