FOOTBALL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 134, 29 February 1908, Page 9

FOOTBALL.

Efforts made, to arrange a match for the "All Blacks" in Scotland proved abortive. ,-Twonty: tons of straw- were strewn'.on: theBristol grounds prior to the international match England v. Wales to prevent the turi becoming frost-bound.

Wilfrid Westwood (the Biggest New Zealand boy for his.ago), eleven years old, and weighing twenty stone, has been made 'a member of 'the West Bromwich Albion' Football Club, England. - ■ The London "Sportsman" states that-W. Wood,' tho-Ncw -2ealander, ■ who : has played many a useful gamo for'-Northampton as loft-'ocntre' to Mobbs, is returning honK shortly.; Ho will-be. greatly missed in the bootmaking town. •

Frank Glasgow, the "All Black," is of opinion that. Don Hamilton, who comgjled 95 .runs for .Southland against Otago.-on Saturday last, is.ono of the best forwards in Now Zealand. I

Tho fact of H.-. Messenger having uphold in English professional football the reputation ho 'made in Sydney in tho'. amh'teu: gamo, and of G.. V. Portus having been clc-.iva.ted-'to wi-position, in the English Interna' 'tional fifteen,, is considered reliablo evideno that-the-'standard of individual play in Nov South .Wales is good. The talent nccess.ary for ; a'-his:h-class : team for tho tour-'"of tliV TJnited Kingdom is, says an Australia! : critic, available, for there aro a number of "colts" of promise. ' . . ' : . ■ Somo difficulty is boing experienced i~ allotting tho dates of tho Sydney Universit; V:''"Now Zealand Universities matches-to b ; •played/'in • Sydney in" July. The. S.TJ.R.F.C requires two Saturdays, and already provi sion is -mado for one by giving tlie club : bye in the competition, , No doubt, says th' "Referee," 'the M.R.U. will meet the clu! in the matter, as it is in the, interests c/ the game. The New South Wales Union' ha: given .its sanction to the matches. .