RUGBY FOOTBALL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21253, 5 August 1932, Page 9

RUGBY FOOTBALL.

CHARITY DAY TO-MORROW SECONDARY SCHOOLS MATCHES FINALS OF COMPETITION Tho annual charity day of the Auckland Rugby Union will be held at Eden Park to-morrow, when the principal attraction will be College Duy matches. Pride of placo has been given to the match between Auckland Grammar and King's College,' which will start on tho No. 1 ground at 3.15 p.m. Splendid football is always provided by the meeting of these teams, and an exciting match is anticipated to-morrow. In the first match, King's College was successful by eight points to three. Another keen game should result in the curtain-raiser between Mount Albert Grammar School and Takapuna Grammar at 1.45 p.m. These teams are equal in the le?d with Auckland Grammar, which has won the championship for the last three years. King's College is only one point behind, and, as the matches to-morrow will complete tho competition, considerable importance is attached to all the results. The Auckland Rugby Union's senior matches to-morrow will comprise another series of the Pollard Cup competition, The teams are a3 follows: GRAMMAR OLD BOYS Senior Grade.—Finlayson, Gooch, Garlick, Mathieson, Savory, Lendrum, Weir, Scarborough, Mansill, E. Batty, Potter, Wyburg, Young, Wilson, Morgan, Knight. COLLEGE RIFLES Senior Grade.—Dickey, Albrecht, Brown, Stewart, Wales, Vear, Kirk, Clarke, Souter, Hurt, Pierce, Donald, Ross, Brown, Halliwell, Gaudin. INTER-HOUSE COMPETITION A further series of matches in the interhouse Rugby football competiiion for the Milne Cup was played at Victoria Park yesterday in showery weather. Both games played resulted in close contests, Macky, Logan, Caldwell gaining a win over Farmers' Union by one point, while Sargood, Son and Ewen defeated Ross and Glendining by two points. Following were tho results:—Macky, Logan, Caldwell. G. Farmers' Union, 5; Sargood, Son and Ewen, 18, Ross and Glendining, 10. CANCELLATION OF MATCH EAST COAST V. BAY OF PLENTY [by TELEGRAM —OWN" correspondent] TAURANGA, Thursday The Rugby match between East Coast and Bay of Plenty, which was scheduled to be played at Tauranga, on August 27, has been cancelled. WAIPA BEATS CAMBRIDGE MARGIN OF 19 POINTS [from our own correspondent] TE AWAMUTU, Thursday Tho Waipa Rugby Union senior and junior representative teams wero successful this afternoon at Albert Park. Playing in the Peace Cup elimination game, Waipa defeated Cambridge by 21 points to 5. At their previous meeting at Cambridge, the teams drew, 8 points each. At half-time to-day the scores were 5 all. but after tho interval Waipa had the better of tho game. For tho winners C. Meredith. Macky, E. Bell, B. Elliot and D. Elliott scored tries; A- Lask kicked a penalty goal and converted three tries. E. Shaw ecored a, try for Cambridge, which Holmeis Otmverted. Mr. A. C. Watkins. of Hamilton, was referee. J Tho Waipa juniors played n second senior fifteen from Waikeria Institute, and won by 30 points to 8. : OPOTIKI REPRESENTATIVES [I)Y TELEGRAPH —OWN CORRESPONDENT] OPOTIKI, Thursday Tho following will represent Opotiki in a liugby ma.tch against Rangitaiki at Opotiki on Saturday.—Sidney, Temple, Black, Morton, Hawkins, L. Kelly, Jones., S. Kelly, D. Parkinson, G. Edwards. J. Edwards. Craig, J. Brown. Walker, Newtli. SOUTH AUCKLAND UNION [from our own correspondent] PUKEKOHE, Thursday A decision that this season one round only be played in the senior competition was made by the management committee of the South Auckland Union at a meeting at Pukekohe last evening. Mr. H. Curd presided. The president, Mr. J. Dean, was appointed manager of the South Auckland team to play Thames at Pukekohe on Saturday, and the secretary, Mr. W. J. Short, was appointed to manage tho team to represent South Auckland against Auckland at Eden Park on Saturday week.. Mr. Freeman, of Waiuku, was selected to referee' the match against Thames. It was decided to ask the Auckland Rugby Union to support any remit to the New Zealand Rugby Union to abolish tho noreplacemont rule.