A WINNING TEAM

Evening Star, Issue 18258, 24 April 1923, Page 1

A WINNING TEAM

TRAINED AND PROVED MEN THE BEST. To footballers and football supporters the argument put up by the Dunedin Citizens’ League concerning the public bodies’ elections should appeal strongly. The argument is this: We have a good team that has brought us to the proud position of being the soundest city in the dominion—we are shield winners in _ this respect. As is usual when a team is at the top of the tree, there is strong agitation from supporters of others who would like to be reps. Good men, many of them; no doubt of it. But are they better than those who have gone on winning? Are you going to risk upsetting the combination of the team by dropping the well tried and trained for others who are new to the rep. game, so long as the present team shows winning form? A percentage of new blood is necessarymen who will work smoothly with the rest and honestly for the province; but stick to the “backbone,” and let us go on beating the other provinces. The Dunedin Citizens’ League team is: Cvs Begg, Scott, Shaddock, Taverner, Wilson, Sincock, and Hancock, and Messrs Douglas, Clark, Halliday, Mitchell, and Ritchie. The league, after carefully weighing the matter, considers this as the safest combination. But it is the ratepayers and citizens as a whole who comprise the Selection Committee.—[Published by arrangement with the Citizens’ League.]