MONEY PRIZES FOR TEAMS

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29841, 6 June 1962, Page 6

MONEY PRIZES FOR TEAMS

New Competition This Year

The Canterbury Football Association will invite eight teams to compete in a subsidiary competition. with money prizes, at the end of the current Hurley Shield series

The association’s management committee agreed last evening that there would be a prize of £2O for the winning team In addition, the four teams which won each week would receive £3. No prize money will be paid for a draw The clubs participating will be asked for a £5 entry fee The first indoor soccer matches played in Canterbury last summer were more successful financially than the matches at English Park, said the secretary (Mr E H. Williams) He was commenting on the £320 profit from the indoor games as reported U> the meeting by the association's representative on the. indoor football committee. Mr F S E. Neate. Of the profit £lOO will be used for coaching, and another £ 100 will be given to the English Park lighting fund The 10 clubs that played in the competition would be repaid their entry fee of £lO, said Mr Neate The attendance at the test match on Saturday was good compared with those at the other matches of the New Caledonians' tour, said Mr Williams The estimated takings from the test would be about £1325. Advice was received that the Canterbury-Nelson match would be played in Nelson on July 28