ASSOCIATION CONTESTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18790, 18 August 1924, Page 4

ASSOCIATION CONTESTS.

TWO CURTAIN-RAISERS. CLUB COMPETITIONS. Prior to the international Association football game on Saturday the North Auckland eleven tried conclusions with an Auckland team. As they had made journey from Whangarei on the previous night in rough weather, tho visitors were hardly feeiing in best condition, but they put up a. great fight.. Auckland just managed to win by a single goal scored by Hunter. The schoolboys' game which formed the other curtain-raiser, provided a clever contest in which North Harbour defeated South by 4 goals to 0: LONG CUP KNOCK-OUT. North Shore A, 2, beat Comrades A, 1. Comrades B. 4. beat North Shore B. 2. SECOND DIVISION FINAL. Y.M.C.A.. 4. beat Thistle. 1 THIRD DIVISION FINAL. Otahuhu drew with Northcote. one goal each. PLAY AT GISBORNE. [BY TELEGRAPH.PRESS ASSOCIATION.] GISBORNE. Sunday. In the Association football senior competitions Mercantile beat Waterßiders by 4 goals to 1, and Taruheru beat Oddfellows by 5 goals to 2. RESULTS IN THE SOUTH. [BY TELEGRAPH.PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON. Sunday. The following are the results in the senior Association football matches:—A: Hospital. 2. Marist. 1: Watersiders, 4, Karon, 4; Diamonds, 3, Institute, 1. B: Scottish Wanderers, 2, Brooklyn, 0; South Wellington, 4, Petone. 0: Welgasco. 3. Johnsonville. 3. . CHRISTCHURCH. Sunday. The Association football matches on Saturday resulted:—Sunnysidc. 1. Nomads, 1; Rangers defaulted to Western: Y.M.C.A., 4. Villa, 1: Kaiapoi, 3. Lyttelton, 0; Thistle, 1, St. Albans, 1.