WEEK-END GAMES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 147, 22 June 1923, Page 3

WEEK-END GAMES.

POSSIBILITY OF CHANGES. The prolonged spoil of wet weather lias left controllers of organised Bporte at their wits' <-n<l to keep the week-end games going under what might lie considered reasonable winter eonditoins for the players. All the -.'rounds which have been surfaced and "improved" by means of top-dressing have Buffered most, the continuous rain bavins loft most of them with a surface which speedily becomes slush under the trampling of contending fontliall iind hockey teams. Of the chief playing fields only the Remuera ground and the Epsom showground are in a condition which would ordinarily be considered fit for play. Hut with a press of obligations in club and ioterprovinfial matches to meet, the football and hockey officials are endeavouring to carry on with the games. On most of the grounds contingency work is in progress to this end, but it is quite on the cards that, with a continuance overnight of the rain, to-morrow morning will see weather committees and ground committees at work arranging for and announcing postponements and changes of .fixtures. In all cases of football the chief features will be carried on if possible, though there might be last-minute changes in the grounds on are to be played.