NEWS AND NOTES.

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 1, 1 July 1922, Page 14

NEWS AND NOTES.

University A are at i.the top of: tho •ladder in -the,. Auckland senior compejtioiu. Somerville and Mount Eden are : only one point behind the leaders; It is rumoured- that ,an invitation i* being isent from Australia for a University team from New Zealand to tour Australia this season. ■ .' -.■■■< ' .Spiers, the latest „ addition -i- to ■' - the Karon defence line, is a first-class fullback, ihis, work, last Saturday'being an outstanding feature of the game with Wellington-United. Wellington is strong in full-backs this. year/ Sherwood and Foster (Wakatu) are two sound men, and others in the limelight are Spiers,' Harris,, and Anderson^ ,' j, Scott (right half) played a great game, for..Potone last Saturday, and was a constant source of trouble to the Wakatu forwards. His speed is a great assat. The selectors can scarcely overlook- Scot! when they are selecting the representative team.. . • ■■;:.■:-. _ DonaJd Hood (Wakatu's inside left) is in groat form this,season. Ho,is always to the fore, and rarely"j fails to score in a match. His brother, W, Hood, , onthe left wing, has gone off a little this> season.:: • . -„ ■-.'-.■■ ■ ■ . t Next Saturday will see the close of the firiit round, and the possibilities are that three teams will be on level terms.: ;

A hot argument, was heard in. thS. train ■'recently as to.the nationality.. of the leading players in our football. One gentleman wanted to know:what credit Wellington could- take for 'beating th« Auasiee. How many, he demanded, ar» New Zealand bortii This; caused a stonu of protest, so, being curious, I lookei up tee. names, and found' that at least seven, ' the team, if not. more, wers. natives; of the Old Country. After!"over\ thirty ryears of Association football i*. Wellington this'is rather aurprising, and there sniiat be some rea-son for '&. In the internationals at Home a player musti be a native of the country ac plays for* bur I smppose it will be many years b*> fore such, a law comes to pass in our footbaily. With the number-of boys' teaiM playing, we should be able in the near fnture, to pick a truly New Zealand, taatu weH able to hold its own .with, tha imported fJayer. At present a game between Old Country, and New- Zealand' players picked' from the senior league wouk' -prove interasting, ' but I think would.;.be an. easy .win for, tik& Old Country.-, , - ..- . Tile greatest amount of i/^M over asrenibled m one -place,lies in a:. -<■■ .■«rument biiilUincr-in Now York. '.' lts : value is. fifteen hundred million dollare (£20O,O00,00O),: .and it is said to represeut ono-fifth of »U . iho gokt tliat haf; been 'produced since tha beginning of civilisation. ,