LEAGUE FOOTBALL

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 101, 30 April 1923, Page 10

LEAGUE FOOTBALL

AROL'ND TFIE GROUNDS. The City C'lttfa were practising on Victoria Park on Saiuriaj. and anions the juniors notii'*! vcho were doins \ uood work were '-ixr:i grade >.'■ Pardy ithird grade). McKay and Reid j 'fourth grade!, ami Gamble ithinf j grade I. Opai Asher ira; in cJar« oi the training operations. Pon-onby has a very nno forward | senior team this -e&.-on. and they were j , doinz 20<j(l work at the Domain on i Saturday. Altogether there are five! teams entered for League and from their ' practice work this club -hoald give a ; very good arcount of itself. Tae organise- ! "ion work i* znaintv due- to the -ecretary. j Mr P.. if. Coif and Mr. A. Bond. For] j some reason the Outer Domain was not j j a-.ailabie for this trlab on Saturday, and! th«?y had to share % another ground with j Marisf Bros. F. J. G. Kelly, an ex-New South j Wales country player, has thrown in hu | lot with Ponsonby and siiouW be a decided acquisition to the club. Peckham. brother of Peckham, that good little Hamilton half, is to play for j the Ponsonby dab. while Wiggins iAth-j ietici will af-o be «ea in the same jer-1 sey I W. Walsh, the Ponsonby club captain. who was in the Tairua boating accident, has; decided to fill the office he wa= ! elected to. and was on the Domain on I Saturday watching the teams practice, i Tills is pleasing not only to his club J ! mates, but to League generally, for they j I can ill afford to lose tbe services of such, an official. Mariit Brother* are to be represented • in all grades and will have pretty fair i teams. In the seniors lEllersltel! will be playing. Scale fWellinjrton) and j Sherlock (Tau'prri) are alio to don tae jersey for this club. Kewton will be represented in five ■ • grades besides in the Cadet competition, j ' Pol.=on f Somers. and Cloke were noticed ! playing on Saturday and seem to have lost none of their da*h *im - e la=t seaj son. Whittington and Williams, juniors I la*t Tear, will probably be in senior | j rankj? this season. "Boiler" FrancU Is I actin? as coach tor Newton. SOUTHERN MATCHES. I (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) I WELLINGTON. Satnrnay. "n!r Leaarie mjfb to-day resulted:— j i Eutt, 16. beat Newtown. 3. rHBISTCHCKCH. Saturday. Leazne matches rf.«tilted: —Aiidinsrton. 7. v. Sydenham. -: Woolston. 11. v. Linwooi 6: Kaiapoi 6. 7. Horaby .'. ! ===== ', ASSOCIATION. • THE SEASON OPENS. j DEFF-VT OF PHILOMEL. ' I The opening of the -oason on Saturday ; I indk-ateii by attendance and play that j i iower U likely to boom this year. At : J \ictoria Park wnere Philomel tnea | I conclusions with Thistle, a new club, j • there was an attendance of 3.000 spectai ror-. and the game ended in a narrow I loss for the naval team. Northcote ■ had a good win over V.M.C.A.. and j North Siiore belt Brotherhood -with j i four froals to spare. It i- obvious that j Philomel. North Shore. Thi-tle. Ponson- ' by. and Northcote are going to supply j I followers of the game with some great j , i.-ontests before the season closes. In the Philomel-Thistle game the i I latter team won by four goals to three. I lAt half time each had scored a goal.! i Anderson and Sexton being the scorers.] ;In the second spell Philomel lost two J men. but the game was clos» and exeitj ing till the Snal whistle, when Keane, j Stewart and Anderson had brought Thistle's score to four, while Margison ] and Lewis had added two goals, to : Philomels tally. j The Y.M.C.A.-Northcote game was marked by repeated attacks and misse? by Y.M. as the result of bad shootiuc : while Northfote, playing a steadier game, took full advantage of their j chances, and they notched >Lx goals to ! their opponent's one. North Shore held ! the upper hand throughout against I Brotherhood, and won by five goals ;to one. Ponsonby defeated Harbour I Board, another New team, by tive goals j to one. SECOND DIVISION. ! Metropolitan ■*. beat Kiwi 1. : T.M.CCa. P. — beat T.M.C.A. A I. Harbour Board 1. beat Londoners 0. ' WatersUer* 1. beat Thistle '>. ! • THTRS DIVISION. I • 4. beat St. James - 1. ; North Shore 2. beat V.M.C.A. 0. I W.Y.M.I. '2. heat College United 0. Belmont 4. beat Moas O. On»hanga Methodist 5 ( 2. Sharp. ! Booth. Archer). defeated Lma 1 j (McLnctle). ' OL'TPIDE MATCHES. HobHonTille 9, beat City Council 3. I j I SOUTHERN MATCHES. ! ! (By Telegraph.—Press ; WELLINGTON. -Satnr.laT. ' 1 Association matches resniteil:—Senior A: j J V.M.C.A. :>.. v. Thistle 1: Watersi.lers 13 v. i <;a?fo "J: Marista l. v. I>iamonrts 1; Flospital • r>. v. Karnri 2. Senior B: Island Bay J v. ■Swifts l: Institute 6. v. Y.M.r.A. B O: I • I'orirna 4 v. lir.-ioklyn S: Scottish Wander- i ' ers -. v. SoQtb Wellinsti>n 0. ! TIMAUr. Saturday. jv. Wafersiucrs 2; Albion Kovers 4. v Hearts 1. CHKISTCHCRCII. Saturday. : ! Association matchos resulted:—Western : 12, v. Lyttflton I: Nomaas 3. v. \ iila 0; ; Sunnyside IS. v. Tcistle 1. | J HAMILTON. I HAMILTON. Parur'lay. ! Hamllton-Unitefl and Wanderers drew — ' !- all - AUSTRALIAN TOTTK. i J i I Th° Aiicklanrl selectors have be*>n re- I i n'lpsted by th* . New Zealaofi Council to spnd i I the names of two more p!ay-rs in aii-tlitioti ! jto those who are already In trsininz. in i view of an Australian tonr. Tbe players ; splocted are: R. Inn 0 .-', outside richt iPon snnh.Ti. and J. Buchanan, centre half iNorth | Shore).