FOOTBALL.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVII, Issue 2583, 8 August 1895, Page 3

FOOTBALL.

- NEW ZEALAND RUGBY UNION. ~ The Management Committee of the New Zealand Rugby Union niet last night, Present—Messrs Campbell (in the chair), McCardoll, Bate, Wesney, Morris, Hohen, Wells and,Bee. .

.The Queensland Union wrote , urging ’that a. Ne .y, Zealand team visit Australia next year, notwithstanding the fact that the New Zealand tour is not taking place this yoqr. . . . . . .Messrs Oamphpll, Bfoben and Weils were appointed a committee to select referees' for the various matches .with the Auckland '■team. 4 '1 w .V 1 •-

Tiie Canterbury Union having protested against the principle of an outside rolereo. being necessarily appointed for its,.match; it-was decided to reply that should Canterbury agrpo with Auckland to ask.tho Now Zealand'Union to select 1 a referee, the New Zealand Union would do ■soy but not otherwise. .liiHU 5 iHii

" The Wellington College, at the request of the 'Wanganui College, asked the Umon to appoint a referee for the College match on the 23rd mst.- This application was referred tp ■ -the committee - 'already ■ mentioned.' 1:; >.'■ l ll-.. -

■ With reference to tho proposal to play the first North v. South Island match at Christchuroh ontho 23pd instant,’Auokland and Otago regretted that they would be uqah(p to pefmit fheif men to take part iq view pf their meeting on the 24th; : It was decided that it would bo 'lnadvisable to play the match without the. co-operation of Otogq and Auckland, ftu(l 'as qo ether date was, praotichble;the ipitiiifipp Rf 'the' ihattsieq bo postponed full next-year, The-Weßington Union and' Mr Birth objected to the ruling .of'the Appeal Com-. mittee, aa" to players being off-side; whp, being outside, the scrum, passed its centre while the ball was in. They urged that tho ruling was ■ ultravires, and'that it' would lin any.-case bo unfair to bnng it into operation at - this stage of tho season. (They asked that the Matter be referred to the English Union.' ~ Mr Campbell, being a member of the Appeal, Committee,' left the chair, and Mr Wells was appointed chairman, , It was decided that the Management Committee had no: jurisdiction over tho Appeal Committee; ■ and that though a ■general meeting of delegates would have power to decide .whether the ruling should come into operation at once or be . withheld, nef'bg' get' together lu-Hn^e, 1 oa tl thp Aiicklaud and Wellington teams aVo to leave next week for.the South. ~ It was eventually * decided to refer the protests to tho. Appeal Committee, requesting ;,that body' to reconsidpr the matter, aud te come to a In-fora Saturday, It was also (jesolyod; tk a t should the ruling he ; pauitajned the, .matter ■ would be referred to j;ho English Union." •' "

_ A match hotween tho junior roprosontati Vo team and a team representing the half-holiday clubs was played at Newtown Park yesterday, and was . won by the half-holiday. team by 8 points to nil. .Burton and Turner scored trios, one of which, was 'converted. Several 'of - the junior, representative team were absent, , and their places were filled by substitutes. : ~, ~ The, rapid growth of the Association igamo this.season-has caused a large amount of interest to be takon'in 'the struggle for the Benifjt tHiampipnehjp; and this intoiest has boon, kept: Up by ■ the' fapt ■ tl\at the leading clubs are within’one or two points of ,oaoh other., At present the Swifts lend by 2 points, and next. Saturday, at Nowtown Parkj'this club play off the Thistles for the final, r A collection will bo taken, at the gates'to moot the expenses of sending a representative team to Auckland, Pqlqnd will nqt he available for tha match against , the. t Manayiftifc f toaja- op Saturday! h,I, i I- ’J

Tho. Wellington representative team will , meet at the Athletic Club’s gymnasium at 7.30 this evening. ■ ... The I following will compose tho Insurance team in the annual 'match Jpsniauco ?’ ? ar k te-morrow. Lusk, Kelly, pownall (2), M ar tin, P. Ashbolt, Smyth,* Heather, Hume, Hutchison, ■A;, 1 Duncan, Bendall, Williams, Morrah, Cooper; .emergencies—Weybeume, Qill, Muir, Barker, Vance." '‘ '

, Byi Telegraph,,— Qieiy fyrx(spdndeni. '■ ’-'Wanganui, August 7." , Jn : the -Association- match - to-day Wanganui i College v. Woodvillo; Wanganui College won by two goals to one. ■ By Telegraph’.— Press Association. . Auckland, August 7. The Wanganui football team was met on arrival by prominent foothaiiora and welcomed; ...