FOOTBALLERS FORGATHER

Evening Star, Issue 19063, 5 October 1925, Page 3

FOOTBALLERS FORGATHER

PIRATES SMOKO The annual smoko concert oi the Pirates Rugby Fool ball Club was held 'on Saturday nigh I in Kroon’s Hall. ;Mr L. V. Fairhairu (pre.-ddem) being in the chair. There was a large at- ; ! tendance. ; Affer the loyal toast- was honored , ! the Chairman expressed pleasure at soei ing so large a gathering and so .many ; • visitors. .He particularly stressed the ; good feeling which had existed in (heclub, from the seniors to the sixth ' grad-.- players, throughout the reason, ; concluding with the remark; “They, wore a happy Family.” Mr C. ('. .Robinson [.imposed tin l ; loasl of “ The O.li.F.l.saying f hat-1 ha thought that body, which had a j | great deal oi routine work to do, had : been very good to the club during the : year. He was only sorry that the i Payne trophy had not been brought south. Mr V. Cavanngh, replying to the toast “ The 0.1LF.U'.,” said the club had won the senior Hag, and he did not think other clubs grudged them their win. The spirit of sacrifice, he said, had given Pirates their place. Ho | congratulated tho first fill ecu: the Hag-winning fourth grade {cam, which , had been coached and supervised by ; Mr Palmer: and the fifth grade flag-! winners. The speaker was pleased to : see some old members present , and ; ! closed his remarks by saying that the ‘ club had reason to he proud of its ; football. _ i Mr J. Nc'lsoii also replied to Hie ; second toast, remarking that the 0.8.F.TJ. members legislated for the good of Rugby football -a game which, he thought, made men worthy to live under the British Hag. This year the ; governing body’s finances would ne j :CoO() or £oon short owing to the lark ; of interprovinrial games. _ Finance ’ matters had been handled in the re- ; cently-ended year as well as they had , been in any other year. , ; Mr I). Stuart, in [imposing the toast; of “Tho First Fifteen.” stated that ; the club had a particularly good future, and the coach and trainers--Mr M'Kellar and Messrs T. Wheelwright and S. Pans —had done very ■ valuable work.

j Mr C. 11. George (captain of the first fifteen) and Mr J. M/Kollar responded to the toast of the first team. , Tho former said tho members had : trained hard, and the la Her (tho coach) voiced tho opinion that the trainers were primarily the men who had iron the Rag. Mr Chns. M’Phoe, in proposing the toasf “ Pirates Junior Fifteen,” said he thought the team had a record this year which they had not had before. They were a fine lot of boys, and the fourth grade players had had only one Ury scored against them for the year, i Representatives of the junior teams briefly replied. Other toasts honored were; “ The Referees’ Association,” proposed bv Mr T». Palm er and responded to by Air J. .Topee; - “Sister Clubs,” proposed by Mr E. Pearce and replied to hr Mew\v r -'irdicy (Southern). A. -M'Donald (KaikoraiV, O’Reiljy (Dunedin'), and TV. Brown (Zingari); 11 St. John Ambulance Associationproposed by Air L. Fairmaid and responded to by Mr F. Connor. Items were freely interspersed throughout the evening, and whom tho better-known songs were sung most of those present joined heartily in tho choruses. This jovial reunion terminated at a. late hour.