RUGBY FOOTBALL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19459, 15 October 1926, Page 8

RUGBY FOOTBALL.

FINAL MATCH OF SEASON. CONTEST FOR POLLARD CUP. MARIST AND GRAMMAR MEET. The last senior Rugby match of the season will be played at the Showground tomorrow, when Marist Old Boy 3 and Grain, mar Old Boys will meet, in the final of the Pollard Cup competition. The only other outstanding competition is in the third intermediate grade, in which four teams remain. Following are the teams:— SENIOR GRADE. Grammar Old Boys.—Badeley. I {worsen, Wilson, Monteith, Hook, Gardener, r.. Singleton, Corn is, McCarthy, Skelton, Whetan. Batty, Knight. Potter, Clarke, Cathcart, Williams. A. Singleton, Lady, Watkins, Laurie. Marist.—Hadley (2), Butler, Rule, Cotter, Casey, Gulpan. Broderick, Carroll, Maher, Kelly, Callinan. Moore, Wright, Bradanovich, Stitchbury, Stewart, Loft, Johnston, Cornthwaite. THE WAIKATO UNION. EFFORTS TO SECURE GROUND. [by TELEGRAPH. —OWN correspondent.] MORRINSVILLE, Thursday. The acquisition of a suitable central ground for representative matches has for several years been exercising the minds of the Management Committee of the Waikato Rugby .Union. Steel Park, Hamilton, has the advantage of being an ideal playing area, but there are conditions which do not permit of permanency. This year the union entered into an arrangement with the Hamilton sub-Union for the use of Rugby Park, but in some quarters it is considered that this ground even to-day is not suitable. Mr. T. A. Cooper, the president of the Waikato Union, has been interesting himself in the matter of a ground for his union, and a committee waited on the Waikato Agricultural and 1 Pastoral Association in connection with the matter. The question was fully discussed, and'it is believed that a solution of the difficulty will be found by the Rugby Union taking a lease of a portion of the agricultural grounds at Claudelands.