LEAGUE FOOTBALL

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 August 1929, Page 6

LEAGUE FOOTBALL

REP. SEASON OPENS.

The West Coast Rugby League senior’ and junior representative teams left this morning for Christchurch, under the management respectively of Messrs J. D. Wingham and W. Ryan.

In addition to the previously announced inability of Calder, of Nelson Creek, and J. Dodds, of Blackball, to make the trip, considerable disappointment was expressed when it became known last evening that C. Robins, the Marist five-eighth, and South Island rep., could not get leave to accompany the team. No substitute was selected, which means that the emergency Harrison will play. O’Loughlin, the other Marist fiveeights, did not go with the team today, but it is understood that he will travel to Christchurch in time to play at Monica Park on Saturday afternoon.

The junior representatives were at full strength as far as local members were concerned, and it was understood that there would be no defections of country members who were to join the train at various stations along the line. Owing to the absence of the senior and junior representative teams in Christchurch there will be no senior or junior grade matches on the Coast on Sunday, but followers of the code will have the opportunity of witnessing a number of interesting games during the week-end. On Saturday, there will be three games at the Recreation Ground. In the morning lads under 15 years of age from the Marist and Runanga Clubs will meet in a contest for the Herb. Moore Challenge Cup. At 1.15 p.m. the visiting Woolston team will play the Coast third-grade reps, and that game will be a curtain-raiser to the .match between representatives of the West Coast and the recently constituted Inangahua Leagues. On Sunday, two third and one fourth grade matches will be played. In the third grade Knock-out Competition, Blackball will meet Brunner at Brunner, while at Cobden the season’s championship final will be contested between Marist and Runanga, which Clubs will also provide the fourth grade game which will be a curtainraiser.

INANGAHUA v. WEST COAST. The following will represent Inangahua in the game against the West Coast League team on Saturday at the Recreation Ground: —Topp, C. MeElwee, J. Burns, A. Smith, Gilroy, Woolhouse, Tapley, Curtis, King, Coxall, A. McElwee, Barbara, Manson, Halman, Maindonald. The following will represent Marist thirds against Runanga on Sunday at Cobden, final of championship, 2.45: — Atkinson, Williams, August, Weir, Burger, Kempton, Anisy, O’Leary, O’Brien, Higgins, Kennedy, Simmonds, Restieaux, Bayley. Cai 1 leaves Club Hotel at 2.30.