FOOTBALL.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19114, 24 September 1927, Page 16

FOOTBALL.

RUGBY.

CANTERBURY B V. ASHBURTON

To-day's game should provide bright and exciting football. Last Saturday at Ashburton, the Cant€ibury team played sparkling football, in the first spell their bright, nippy passing and straight running being favourablv commented on. They "scored all their points in the first spell, and in the second, against the wind, were unable to improve. Ashburton are now a major union, and this is the first occasion on which they have plaved on Lancaster Park with that status. Mu'llan will be associated with Grant and ilardon at five-eighths, supported by a good tlir<se-quarter line in Hart, Caider, and Ogier. The forwards are a brisk lot, with promising players in Cottrell, Fookes, Speight, and Anderson. The Ashburton team recently toured the Coast, with success, playing" open Rugby that appealed to the spectators. Stills, E. Carleton, and J. Robilliard, are the best known of their backs, the latter being a. brother of the All Black. An interesting curtain-raiser will be played by basketball teams representing Sacred Heart College and Technical. On the south ground at 1.30 p.m., the Rugby final of th ® under 17 competition between Merivjjle "A" and Technical "A" is set down for decision. BIBLE CLASS CUP. The following will represent tho Phillipstown Young Men's Guild to-doy v. Avon-side,-in'the final of the Biblo Class Rugby Cup:-—Anderson, Dunshea, Wallburton, Mapplebeck, Morris, Macfsrlane, B. Schou, Egan (2), Bates, Olliver (2), Cobuni (2), Godfrey, Gibson, Calvert.

HEAZLEWOOD TO BE TRANSFERRED. [THE PRESS Special Service.] *- DUNEDIN, September 23. It will be a loss to Otago football when tho Zingari full-back, Heazlcwood, has been transferred from the Hillside railway workshops to the Petone workshops. He was one of the most promising players on the recent tour of tho Otago team. He played in four o£ tho five matches, and his games were often littlo short of brilliant. Heazlewood first secured representative honours last year. His play on tho late tour was ns good as thnt of most of the full-backs seen in the As Stevenson is not available, Heazlewood will play as full-back to-morrow in tho All Black trial match.

AUCKLAND TRIAL TEAM. (MESS ASSOCIATION TEI.EGBAMS.)

AUCKLAND, September 23. j r Clio Auckland and Northland combined team for tho. All Black trial to-morrow against Bay of Plent ."-Thames alley-\> ai-kalo-King Country is :;3 follows: Full-back, Butler; three-quarters, \\oods, Sheen, Hook; five-eighths, Ces Badcley, Bcrridgc; half, McManus; forwards, Kcone (rover), Hadley, Palmer, Mathias, I'inlayson, McWilliams. Cathcart, Donaldson. Tho only , Northlanders included aro I' inlavson and Donaldson. Lucas is not available, and Kniglit broko a rib in tho Wellington match. WELLINGTON SIDE CHOSEN. (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, September 23. The Wellington team to play Wairarapa to-morrow is:— _ , Grenfell, Ruslibrook, South, Elvy, Nicholls, Johnson, Kilby, Oliver, O Began, Shearer, Blacker, Taylor, Thomas Edgar, , Porter. Emergencies: Backs, McKenzie, Cheney; forwards, Clandge, McHardy. Pringle, Malcolm, and Emerson are not available. ASSOCIATION. ENGLISH. CUP SEMI-FINAL. .All Soccer enthusiasts should attend English Park this afternoon'to. witness the semi-final--of the English Clip , competition.. Besides the big game, Nomads v. Thistle, the Canterbury '-Football Association, has ai'ranged' an attractive sports, programme, including a half-mile cycling event, run in three heats, and a fifth grade match between Technical A and St, Albans, for the Ramsay Cup., The first .heat .of the cycling event will commence at 2.45 p.m., ana the final at 3.45 p.m. ' . The big match should prove a brilliant and fast game, as both teams possess exceptionally good players, several of whom represented Canterbury in the recent mterprovincial contest. Nomads are a strong and ' efficient team, and have iad many successes this "season, but no one can tell what may happen this afternoon. .The Thistle Club is by no means weak, and their record to date shows that they have considerably improved in their footwork. • The game promises to be a great struggle, and first- : class Soccer should result. The Nomads team is a good . combined one, and well balanced, and should prove ready for all the demands of a strenuous game. Their forward line is particularly good, and the defence is known aB champion. Tho preceding game, Technical v. St. Albans, also promises to be of great interest to Association supporters. Patrons of tlie Soccer code should not miss to-day's match, for it is bound to be full of incident and excitement, and an excellent afternoon's entertainment is assured. '