Football

Northland Age, Volume XVI, Issue 92, 12 September 1947, Page 1

Football

TOMORROW’S BIG GAME Mangonui’s rep fixture of the season will take place tomorrow. Their opponents' billed as the Auck--1 land Maoris, hive many fine players in their ranks,Several of whom play for leading City Clubs. Last season 1 a team on similar lines proved an attractive draft' and with the Oval in tip top patrons should see Rugby at Its best. Patrons woijjld be advised to be i early and see ihe fourth grade final between Kaitjffa and Awanui. This 1 popular competition has just concluded its first season in Mangonui Rugby and judging jby results has come to I stay. I The other Curtain-raiser is the competition gaitic between Te Rarawa and Peria teams. Both teams have exceii(*rt records this season and the result ,has a direct bearing on the championship. Maori Representative Team The following is the Auckland Senior Maori representative team which will meet Mangonui at the Kaitaia A. and P. Oval at 2 p.m. : Fullback —Niwa. Threequarters Ewe, McDermot, Kani. Five-eighths—Brady, Rewhiti. Halfback —Patrick, Front row Collins, Hapi, Zimmerman (vice-captain). Middle row —Williams, Matene, Noble, Snowden. Back row—Puriri (captain). Emergencies Royal, Paitai, Mahi, Herekaia. Kaitaia Fourth Grade Team The following is the Kaitaia Fourth Grade team which will meet Awanui in the final of the County Championship on the Ar and P. Oval at 11.30 a.m. tomorrow. (All players must be stripped by 11 a.m.) : C. Wilson, R. Masters, J. Dykes, Cowie, A. Archibald, G. Morpeth, R. Wilson, Knightbridge, Masters, T,. Taaffe, D. Wilkinson, Hansen, Theed, Harris, Hetaraka. Emergencies—E. Flinn, Puckey, Thompson. ir Ambulancemen for Tomorrow Messrs. J. Knox, H. Anderson and R. Powley are the ambulancemen who will be on duty at the Kaitaia A. and P. Oval tomorrow. ti Girl Footballers The girls of the Mangonui Cqunty certainly like variety ; they marched to fame overnight and now they have entered the football arena-j*%nd what fun they are having ! sp One of Mangonui’s-fire p selectors, and a celebrated footballer of his day, Moses Yates, is epdehing a team of Maori girls at I’dKepoto in readiness for their debuCFon Ambulance Day. Already the girls are showing outstanding' ability at a game in which omy their brothers have been allowed Jk> shine in the past. Mr. Yates states that his daughter, Doris, has m#fch of her father’s ability as a footballer, and that son John, who waif a junior rep this season is just ftfit in the same street.