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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 269, 6 August 1908, Page 2

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WELLINGTON RUGBY UNION. The weekly mooting of the committco of the Wellington Rugby Union was held last night. There were present:—Mr. S. Brown (iii the chair), and ulcssrs. F. Alpe, E. 0. Hales, W. Berry, W. Hardham, J. Murray, J. Burns, J. Sweeney, and J. F. O'Sullivau. It was decidod to. agree, to the appointment of Sir. J. Williams; Dunedin, for tlio Auck-land-Wellingtoii matcii, and to suggest to tho Southland Union that Rev. Mr. Harper, of Manawatu, and E. M'lienzie, of, Wairarapa, bo appointed to act in the SouthlandWollington match. ' Tho Miramar Athletic Park and Wonderland Co., Ltd., notified the Committco that it would require 'tho use; of Miramar Park for a pony meeting on August 22. . C. "V. Fo'rdham wrote stating that a number of playors in tho Old Boys-Soutliorn cur-tain-raiser match at Athletic Park on' Saturday lost sums oE money rangiiiE from 2s. to los. through a sneak thief ootaining ad.mittance to tho dressing room during tho progress of tho game-. "It came as a great surprise," ho adaod, ."when somo member of ; tho Union' informed us that after the gamo tho 1.30 players had to look out'for their own clothes. - This being ;the case, it is much cheaper and safer to play at Miramar, as one's__ tlothes are always in sight." It was decided to communicate with the polico on the-matter. The Committee agreed to acccdo to the' request of tho "Wairarapa Rugby Union that tho junior representative match,' Wellington v.; Wairarapa, bo played oil Wednesday, August 19. ■ Tho l'otone Council- complained that Mr. Roberts, tho referee in' a imatch on No. 3 ground at the Recreation Ground, had declined to.'Btoji'tho game to enable the ground to be cleared of spectators who wero Hampering" play on No. 2 'ground. The letter ordered to bo sent on to tho Referees' Association... • •' It was agreed to play 'a match, Wellington B'v. Bush Districts,, as' a curtain-raiser to the Wellington-Southland match on August 26. ■v- '. 1 ." Tho resignation of H. Kelly, one 1 of tho representative selectors, who will be absent, from Wellington during; tho greater portion of the,remainder of tho season, was accepted with regrot. . It was decided to- play the match, -Town Referees v. Petpno ;Referees, as ■ a curtain raiser "'to the. -Wellington 15-Hprowlienu'a match on August' 22 ;'ahd' tho, junior' repre-; sentatives v. . Wednesday representatives match as a- curtain-raiser to the South Canterbury match next Wednesday. D. Andrews, of the Polhill fourth-class team, who was ordered off the, field for disputing .a decision and for refusing to give his name, appeared, before the Committee. He said that he'was asked only once for his name; and that if ho had been asked a second time he would have .given it. Coad; captain of the Polhill team, who, it was alleged, had refused to divulge the name of another player who had used bad language, also attended the meeting. He denied the charge made against" hitn. Both men decla.red that they did not know the name of the player; who had used .the bad language. '. Upon the players being allowed time to further consider the matter, they stated that they had intended to shield the player who used the bad language, but as it might affect tho Whole of the team they would give his namo. Andrews was suspended until the conclusion of: tho Cup 'fixtures; Coad was ordered, to* be suspended; and the player alleged to have used the bad. language- was. ordered to appear before tho Committee at its next meeting.' i RUGBY TEAMS FOR SATURDAY. • The following ■ Will represent ' the', Oriental Club in the third. class''match Oriental v.. , Wellington College: — M'Leari, Bitossi; M'Keown,' M'Coinbie; Lovelly Cato; Brown, Johnson, Heeuau/ • Bey, Leyden, Stubbs, Player, Murdock;. Oats, and Inlan. ' In tho fourth ciiiss-m&tch ,Oriental v. : Old' Boys, Oriental ;W.ill .bq represented as un-der:—Falmnerr-'Gollin's, ' Chapman; Piget," "Johnson, r ' Fildesj ? Meighan, Eihg; Simpson,-- Galvin, ' -M'lllraith, - M'Keown, Wright-, Richardson, 'Robertson. — . "" "

WELLINGTON TEAM ACAINST SOUTH CANTERBURY; . :.y\ .The foUowing .(B) team, has been selected to' represent' Wellington in , its match against South '■ Canterbury to be- played at the Athletic.Park on Wednesday:— . ; " FULL-BACK. Thomas (St. James). ... THREE-QUARTERS i "' ■ . , Matheson (Oriental), Hitchings (Victoria College); and Gordon (Athletic). 1 FIVE-EIGHTHS: - ■. ; Ferguson (St. James). , HALF: ; ■ Tilyard (Poneke). ' \ ■ ' ' FORWARDS: > ' • Wingers—Caloinai (Poneke), and Osborne (Athletic). .■'...' . ■ Lock—Spencer (Melrose): ' Supports—De Blois (Melrose) and Knight (i'etono). ' ■' : _ - ; Hookers—Tresizo (Poneke) and Houlihan (Southern). • Kmergencies—Backs: Avery (Old ; Boys) and Harris(Petone); forwards—Do la Mare (Victoria ■ College)' and Bruce: (St.. James).. Amongst the ; abovo players, there are a number who have never played.unrepresentative .football in Wellington before, • and whose performance in the forthcoming match must be taken into consideration when the selectors get to. work on the teams (both A and B) that are to: battle for Wellington in the eight or ten representative matches yet to be played. 1 The team is, therefore, expected, to train energetically,- in order that -AVellington may hold its end up during the strenuous games already programmed. Heady has informed the selectors that he will be unable to accompany the Wellington team to Auckland. A substitute will probably be selected in his place to-day. WEDNESDAY HATCHES. The two games set down to b6 played at Miramara yesterday were postponed owing to rain..-' The only game contested was that between Stars and Tramways at Newtown STARS v. TRAMWAYS. • Tramways created a surprise by playing,a drawn game with ,Stai'S (the leading team in the competition) at Newtown Park. .Taking ,ihe game all through, Stars ma;y be judged at the. better team, but Tramways' defence Was'very sound, which certainly had a lot to do with the result of. the game. Stara played against the strong wind in the first spell, and. soon after thq-kick-off Tramways were. put on' the defence. The Stars were almost scoring several, times, but the attacks were. continually, reputed, . and the spell ended with no score. . 'On resuming, Stars again pressed, and were rewarded by Richards scoring a try from a line-out a few yards from their opponents' line. ~ The kick at goal was a failure. Tramways then showed . up, and reversed play. . Their repeated efforts to score, liowover, were, fruitloss, and they wero again pressed to defend. Close on time the forwards broke away, and from a melee on the lino they, equalised thoscoro through Clarke,scoring at the corner. Luxford's kick. at..goal was futile., Tho game ended immediately afterwards with thoscoro: Tramways ' » ... 3 Stars ..; ..i 3 Mr. Crowes was refereo. , ' AN INTER-COLLECE MATCH. A Press Association telegram from Christchurch says':—The annual match between tho Boys' High School and Christ Collego was played on .the .College grounds'yesterday, afternoon, and resulted in a win for tho High Sohool by 22 points to 13. ' . WALLACE TESTIMONIAL. A meeting of tho Executive Committco of the Wallace Testimonial Fund was hold last night at Messrs. Thomson and Brown's office, Mr. P. Coffey presiding. Thore was a large attendance. Mr. J. F. Wiren. reported that splendid progress had bceii made with , tho lists in; Wellington, and very encouraging i

reports were received from various parts of \ the Dominion. The committee has decided ' and taken the Town Hall for a concert'to be', held .<jn Wednesday, November 18, 1908. i An oxcellont entertainment is expccted to' ■ result. The sending of a representative of , the committee to Auckland to further tho .; interest of the fund was proposed, § but final arrangements were not made. ' • !