FOOTBALL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14111, 13 July 1909, Page 8

FOOTBALL.

THE RUGBY GAME. |g FRANKLIN UNION, 7- . ■ ■ ' " •' TRIAL "MATCH ARRANGED. A. TRIAL match will be played at luakau on • Saturday (writes our correspondent), after .t ' which the representative team will be picked. Tito following players have been selectV - ed to take part in the match:—R. Cranston, ' A. Cranston, W. Pulman. J. Taylor, ,1. ' Greenwood, 3. Gill, J. McKee, F. McGuire, t'.' W. Poland, J. McGuirc, R. Glasgow, J. Firritfc (Tuakau), Coakley. Harris, McCiinnis, Parker, Markham, G. Carter (Bombay), R. Blake, F. leaner, Fitness,' Jackson, J. Blake, Hiata, Pollock. Bilkey, J. Beatty, Faussett, Rogers (Ptikekolie), Johns, A. Hawthorne, Merrick, G. Hawthorne, Baird, Avery, Wilson (Wairoa). Players will meet at Tuakau at, 2.30 p.m. on Saturday, when the teams : will be arranged in order. WAIUKU union. ■ -/ The second round of the Waiuku Rugby Union matches was finished on, Saturday, : ; when the City Club again secured a double win (writes our correspondent). The results were as follows: — % ; ' ■-< Seniors: City (IS points) v. Tauranjttinui (nil). Juniors: City (24 points) v. Tauranganni (8 points). i*;./ ' Tho City Club having already won both senior and junior cups, it has been decided not to play the third round, but to arrange 1 for outside matches. ■■ . . LIiVER WAIKATO RUGBY UNION. The , final matches in the third round of the Lower Waikato Rugby Union championship" were played on Saturday. Rangiriri forfeited to Ngaruawahia. Huntly met Taitvv piri at Taupiri, and after a hard and in■l;;:' teresting game Huntly won by eight points ;o nil. A try by A. MeKillop was con- / rertcd by Johnston, and a try was scored by Cileeson, the attempt at. goal failing. Tho |fr' result of this match leaves the competition in an interesting stage, as Taupiri, Ngaruawahia, and Huntly are level with six joints each. Tho finals, which ' should' prove' in-, teresting, will not be decided until' after C'_y the rep. matches, which commence 011 July 24. On that date Frankton will be played. Mid Cambridge, Hamilton, and Auckland B earn on succeding Saturdays.

WAIHI DEFEATS WAIIvINO. ' • : [by telegraph—-own CORRESPONDENT.] gifefc'..Waihi, Monday. | A football match between the Waihi and Waikino Rugby football, representatives was :' played at Waikino on Saturday afternoon, tho Waihi team winning a well-contested game by eight points to three. For the winners. Heath and Morpeth scored tries, one of which was converted by, Power, and - for Waikino a try was registered by Gilpin.

\i-' - ' ■ " 1— • ' — ; .V • . - , •*• .. * '•" *< s ' - - ,' DISQUALIFIED PLAYER IDENTIFIED. i, " [BT TELEGRAPH.—TRESS ASSOCIATION'.] Dunedi.v, Monday. ■ The' secretary of the South Canterbury Rugby - Union (Mr. ; Fra?er) reported to a meeting of -th© Otago Rugby Union to-night 1 ■ vthat, ho had identified *. Duve.l, a Kaikorai tplayer, 'as , tho ? Duval who : had -'been disqualified? by ■ the South Canterbury t Union. Duval had denied it. but made no pretence ' of not recognising him (Mr. Fraser^.^-Dsiyal stated that it 'was his cousin whom ? Fratcr - was in search of. " Questioned by' members of the Otago Union whv ho described in a : letter Duval," who i* dare, T to- be- : a fair, tall ' \ mail, W.-Fraser taid that he had relied on ' memory.., .s.'t- ,1 , ' ■ J'. £' The Otago Union resolved that: the Aew 'Zealand Union be informed;that Duval had - been identified by Mr. Fraser, and that he ''/■ l»4/diiqwalifiedv'pending A> instructions from t-y the New Zealand Union.

= -«T. ; . . o 'Some curious happenings were ;in evidence at, a match played at .the tower Hutt last, Saturday week- : Tho #. local constable forgot - all about > his dignity and " barracked' ' for ?:i>; the Hutt team all he knew; how. ( He paid. i! ; no: heed to the requests of players to keep •:" ; out of their way, until finally the referee was appealed to* so that he might be dislodged from the playing arena. The local V J J medico was. also very prominent •on the; touch-lino until one of the flag-bearers came &'v| into violent'collision -'with ' him. The local supporters at' the Hutt must he ever more iisl ~Z" patriotic" than they arc at North Shore. On Saturday afternoon the Victorian k-- t Rugby Union discontinued the regular round ' of matches for what : hoped would be |J r «f;r'an exhibition game on -the East Melbourne lifff ground (says the 'Melbourne Argus of recent ~ date). ! : The ' weather was fair, and many exiles from blue; and gold' Sydney and black "€ and silver New Zealand attended, hoping to ' get a taste of their native 1 game in a. barbarous "country, where one is sllowed to f punt a goal, and is penalised for holding the ball or tackling ah opponent by the . ankle. A Rugby, match :in Melbourne always draws. a small crowd of these exiles, ; and they sit 06 the hard benches and say Sp bitter things .about the Australian game and ■he Melbourne« climate, and rccall sadly the ;7'' splendid period of the ■" All Blacks' " visit I®7l to Sydney. To a. Sydney man Rugby stands for the band oil the Manly boats, and* the Jji <brown streets aglow with the winter sunlight,' the sea beaches, and the scrub on • the sandstone headlands/ To a New Zealander it stands for the black hills and the ;'j ■ green fern, and the rata, and, perhaps, the •• two* New 'Zealand Dreadnoughts. This game was as much Rugby as the teams could T4,'< make it, and as little Rugby as the East Melbourne . ground could manage. V .The ground seemed in . conspiracy with the 32,000 who witnessed the Carlton-Essondon match |£ y, to treat the efforts of■ the union with contumely. Never was a dirtier game of Rugby i played in Australia. The ground was a gfi quagmire, , a slough of despond, in which it was impossible to let oneself go to got .the. boot on the ball or to stoop to pick it Wi-:< up. - When the players went into the field |p# one could tell to which. team a man belonged | by his uniform. When they came off at j S- . half-time their colours Had disappeared W,\ under the all-embracing mud.. >.r.v ;y;-?■- -■■■ ■ ■ -■< . !

THE ASSOCIATION GAME.,

In these days of depression, when to much is heard of declining dividends, may, will §s^!.wish (says 'the Athletic News) -they' had }• shares in the Glasgow Celtic Football Club, " (j Limited, whose profits for the past season Sj. enable the ~ directors to 'declare' a dividend |f-of 5s per £. The income -from all sources amounts to .£17,214. including a balance V from last, year of £2221, and is made up of the following items League matches £6338, §M (Jh«srow cup ties . £3515, Scottish. cup ties j', £2898, friendly;-, fixtures £378, sports and hire of ground £1635. Players' wages came Yfr,' : to £2665, shares of gates to -other clubs $p.: £4098, and ground maintenance £2413, which y" covers the cost of dismantling the East Ter- : race* and other expensive alterations. In all 56 matches were played last season, of which 36 were won, 12 drawn, 8 lost; goals IT./; for 125, against 51. On 22 occasions Adams' p/j'. ■ goal was kept intact, and only , on six oc..casions did Celts foil to scoreagainst StS, i-'.Mirren, 3rd Lanark, Clyde (twice), Airdrionians, and Hibernians. .. Altogether, the report is a monument to the potentialities of the Celtic Club. In Scotland there are Wsi no;- financial limitations in reference to players, dividends, or any other money mat;)V ters. Thus the Celtic cat} pay 25 per cent., while Eyerton can only pay. sner cent. Yet fefcWweTafe told that English.football is purely commercial! • It was only 'by v a combined effort at the S: . last moment and a little luck that the Tottenham Hotspur team managed to *' leave .' England on the s.s. Araguaya for the Argenjj£sl;.?'*ine (says the Sporting Chronicle of May 15). They were to have caught the 9.20 gggbojrt; train from Waterloo to Southampton, but owing to the motor-'bus which conveyed j- them to Waterloo being late they missed ispg the to.in. .• Fortunately, they were- able to ix>ard the Hamburg-American line : express bound for Southampton. » c- It - was a "race U^ : against time, however, and the vessel was jS.fi-> slowly moving from the quay as the'foot."k'l A ballers made their appearance?.*' A tug 'was ,v; chartered and the liner was followed down stream, where the >. team .eventually boarded the ; Araguaya. The Evcrton team; who are travelling by : the same; shin, V were highly SH&«?*used.at their. comrades' predicament, and wildly cheered • them }lni; their effort to join }j, - the ship. * j • ' -/ •>> ; T.... ■' J :