RUGBY FOOTBALL
POLICE TO PLAY ARMY
A Rugby football match in aid of patriotic funds will be played at Athletic Park tomorrow afternoon by teams representing the Army and the Police. The Army side will be that w.^ch went exceedingly close to. winlV.g the senior championship this season, and in the Police side there will be members of the champion team as'well as players from - other senior sides. The strong representation gives promise of a bright afternoon s sport, for which a charge of 2s is being made for admission to thestand or.ground. The match is to start at 3 o'clock, and the teams are:— Police.—-Home, Stanaway (captain). Geary Calclough, Davidson. Harkness; Lissette, Young, Vaughan, King, Ellery, Foley. Firmin, Treweek, Woods. Reserves: Revell, Shanahan, Brown Army.T-Morrison, Avis, O'Byrne, Tucker, Fitt, Doreen, Elliott, Whale Crowley, Newton, Lee, Croom, George' Marshment, Langham. Reserves: Boyce, W. Morrison, Humphries. . The curtain-raiser, to commence at 1.30 p.m., will be between Mangaro Junior champions and Trentham (Army Juniors). A MUD SCF-AMBLE •An evenly-contested Rugby contest, which became little more than a mud' scramble took I place at ralmerston North on Saturday between the junior representatives of Manawatu and Wellington. The only score was a try by Armstrong. Tills was registered towauds the end of tlie match, which Manawatu won oy 3 points to nil.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 69, 19 September 1944, Page 3
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218RUGBY FOOTBALL Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 69, 19 September 1944, Page 3
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