COMING REPRESENTATIVE GAMES
THBEE ON KING'S BIRTHDAY,?
Soccer players and followers in Wellington will have niueh to interest them in the coming month with the prospect of three representative matches on the King's Birthday and the local Chatham Cup competition opening soo"n after. Indications are that the first A division championship will be fought out between Petone, Hospital, Slarist, and Waterside, who arc regarded as the leading teams and all of whom have equal chances of finishing the first round of the championship competition within a point or two of one another. The King's Birthday match against. Canterbury is now quite definite, and although up till yesterday the Wairarapa Association had not replied to Wellington's invitation for' a representative match on the same date it is • more than probable that they will accept. If they do, the Wellington Association will play a first B division representative team.against' Wairarapa as a oprtain-raiser to the first A;division representative match against. Canterbury. ■ i /
There is every indication that Auckland will accept June 2 as the date for the Football Association Trophy match against Otago at Auckland, in which ease the Otago touring team will be in Wellington on their homeward journey on June 4, the date of the representative matches against Canterbury and Wairarapa. If Otago want a game on that day there is no reason ■ why they should not get one against a strong Wellington team, for there is enough promising and experienced material in the eight first A division elevens" to enable the sole selector (Mr. W. B. Hicks) to place in'the field'two teams which would-maintain; the: prestige of Wellington senior football.'The selection of two representative teams to play on the same day would spur the local players to added efforts and prove valuable to "Wellington in view
By "Vanguard."
of jts challenge for the F.A. Trophy, which it will try to wrest from eithei Auckland or Otago.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 111, 12 May 1934, Page 20
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317COMING REPRESENTATIVE GAMES Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 111, 12 May 1934, Page 20
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