OTHER MATCHES.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 270, 20 May 1907, Page 2

OTHER MATCHES.

tPEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.! Masterton, May 19. Senior Rugby championships. — Masterton beat Gladstone 31 to 3, Masterton Star beat Greytown 9 to nil. Christchurch, May 19. Senior matches on Saturday resulted : — Sydenham (6) beat Old Boys (3), Albion (3) beat Merivale (0). Canterbury College (11) beat Linwood (8), Cliristchurch a bye. Dunedin, May 19. Results of Saturday's Senior foot-' ball matches: — Alhambra beat Union 19 to nil, University v. Dunedin a draw (no score), Southern beat Taieri 9 to 3, Zingari beat Port 11 to nil, Kaikorai v. Pirates a draw (6 points each).

No football was played at Wellington on Saturday, owing to rain.

A Melbourne scribe writes : "I was chatting to a well-known quondora captain of the Victorian State football team the other day re the "pity of it" that, by the adoption of the Victorian style of football by Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania, the States mentioned were debarred from contesting the International football supremacy with Great Britain, South Africa, and New Zealand. As a practical exponent of the Victorian style, I have no hesitation in stating that it is a very fine game, highly developed. But SO is Rugby. What could be more rousing or soul-inspiring than the Jightring passing and dashing runs of the latter gdme?" Letters from schools for free footballs usually cause a smile or two when they come before the Committee of the O.R.F.U. They often smack of the grammar book and the Euclid book, and they abound in unnecos sary and curious expression. flue writer complained last evening that something was wrong with one of the "sectors" of the ball given, another "humbly begged" a ball, a third a*dd ed the gratuitous information that Rugby football was "the king of sports." Then came a sheet of foolscap from a country school. On one side was the application of the boys and all their signatures. On the other side the girls backed this up. "W©, the undersigned girls attending the same school, like to see the boys playing football, and therefore respectfully plead," etc., etc. And, as if this were not sufficient, the, master follows On and states that if the ball is granted "it will be preserved, when not in play, as long as possible, among the archives pf the school." There is a pathetio note about it, too— the penalty the State school teacher paye for his environment .