FOOTBALL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7543, 19 August 1902, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

(PBK PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

Wanganui, August 18. The following team has been picked to play against Taranaki on Wednesday: — Pull, Robinson; three-quarters, Thurston, Tregear, Sheehan; five* eighth, McGregor ; half, Braid ; wings, Dick aud Hamerton ; forwards, Montgomerie, Thompson, Prouse, Symes, McCulloch, L. Ryan, M. Ryan. Emergenoies: T. Craig, A. Anderson.

Considerable interest is being taken in tbe Wanganui-Taranaki match, to be played at Hawera to-morrow afternoon. On the last three occasions of meeting Wanganui proved victorious by narrow margins, and no doubt Taranaki will make a big effort to partially retrieve their laurels tomorrow. The following is the Taranaki team : FULL-BAOK .' A. Hunter (Hawera). THREE QUARTERS :

Hargreaves (Star), Woods (Inglewood), George (Star). FTVK-BIGHTH : Mynott (Tukapa). half: Humphries (Star). wings: Bullock (Star) and Guy (Opunake). fobwards :

Glasgow (Hawera), Glenn (Waimate), O'Dowda (Star), Thomas (Stratford), Loveridge (Tukapa), Butler (Stratford), O' Sullivan (Okaiawa).

The Wellington Post fottball writer, referring to the proposed North and South Island match, Bays :— lt will he interesting at this stage to state that only on one occasion has 4here been a North and South Island match, and this took place at the Athletic Park, Wellington, on June 26 tb, 1897, when the Northerners beat the Southerners by 16 points to 3. Mr J. P. Firth was the referee, and the names of the players who did battle on that occasion might be chronicled to show the changes which have since eventuated. The names of very few present day players are included in the list, but there are Borne names whose past doughty deeds in the football arena will furnish readers with an opportunity of recalling stirring incidents in the various performances of many of the old "has beens." The North Island was represented by Laws, Allen, Roberts, Smith, Bayly (captain), Humphries, Mills, M'Konzie, Blair, Hancock, Pauling, Calnan, Wilson, Hardcastle, nnd Murray. The Southerners were Benjamin, Orchard, Woods, Armit, Duncan (captain), Glennie, M'Laren, Johnstone, Harris, Fanning, Brooker, Smith, Stewart, Bhodes, and Priest. The scorers for the North were : Hardcastle, Boberts, and Humphries, a try each ; Humphries plaoed two goals and kicked a penalty goal. Priest kicked a penalty goal for tbe South Iblanrt.

A correspondent in the New Plymouth News urges the inclusion of Jenkinson in the Taranaki touring team.