FOOTBALL.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18129, 19 July 1924, Page 14

FOOTBALL.

I RUGBY. TO-DAY'S ATTRACTIONS. To-day's match on the Oval at Lancaster Park is one • which should attract _a very large crowd of Eugby followers. The meeting of the llerivale and Linwood teams is one in which considerable interest has always been shown, and to-day's event is no exception in this The .Linwood team is regarded as tne strongest that has taken the field this season, ana one tnat will keep Mexiyale busy lor - an hour and a hall. Theie'is no oouut a particularly spectacular game should be seen in what should prove to be a fast, open exhibition ol Kugby. The Old Hoys-Albion game will be played on. the South tfround and the jun.or match, Linwood v. Kernel, in wnich some saiart r brilliant wvri shonld •be seen, will vake place on the Vvest (around. At the oho* Grounds two particularly attractive ■ junior matches will be played. On the No. 1 ground u.aiapoi v. 'Varsuy A will meet, and on the 2 Ground vha R-s*i£i-S/denham match will be playsd. Xne lomi displayed by Ka.apoi this Beaton has already lesulted in some brilliant displays of Bugby, and to-day'fi match is bv-und to attract a very large numoer oi supporters and followers of the game. LEAGUE. TO-DAY'S MATCHES. Owing to a re-arrangement of the drew there will be only two senior matches played this afternoon. At Sydenham Park Marists A and B will meet-. These two can be expected to give a good open game, and the form of the four proepactive All Blacks in the A team should be worth watching. Th<* A team are probable winners, but the B team have been playing so well of late that they will keep tne game fast and open all the time. The other game will be that between Sydenham and Woolston at. 'Woolston Park. Sydenham are the favourites for this match, but the young players in the Woalßton team are improving, and they will fully extend the South Suburbs' thirteen. AUCKLAND DISPUTE SETTLED. (CHESS ASSOCIATION TELXQEAM.) AUCKLAND July 18. The. dispute between- the Rugby League and the City Club win settled by the items fer of L. Brown from Newton to CitylTeing approved. > ASSOCIATION TODAY'S BIG FIXTURE. The chief attraction offered by:the.Canterbury Football Association to-day will be the meeting •of Lyttelton and Thistle, at English Park, and a good, fast exciting game is expected. The teams are close together in the championship table, and in view of the representative fixtures that are drawing near, all the players are training hard, and playing their hardest. The game will probably result in - a battle between the Thistle, attack and the . Lyttelton defence, but the superior combination of the Scots' front line should win ; the day. An'a curtain-raiser there will be a fifth grade~ match between Marists A and. St. Joseph's School at 1.30 p.m. SUNNYSIDE CLUB. The following will represent Sunnyside against Western at Sunnyside to-day:—Cal-laghan, Gould, Mitchell, Batten, Bond, Thompson, MacLachlan, Purdie (captain), Safey, Browning, Duncan. Reserves—Mizen and Hartley. RANGERS CLUB. Teams for to-day:— ■ v ■ . Seniors v. Villa, at Hagley Park north, 1 ,2;45 p.Jo.—W. Perry, H. Aspinall, D. Lusk, W. Korner, E. Shaw, L. Barwell, G. Pilling, A. Bissett, P. Dowker, E. Norman, 8. Ives; first emergency,. G. Tupe. Third grade v. Spreydon, : at Sunnyside Mental Hospital ground,' at 1.80 p.m.—Sinclair, Lee, JJakmaon,. Barron,* Forsyth, Strothers. Fraser, Barnes,- Robb, Kingslord, Cherry; reserves, Wilsotf, NewelL Playing at Waltham "Tark yesterday, Ex-' oelsior defeated St. Martin's by 4 goals to ail' (all shot by B. Smith).