FOOTBALL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5667, 15 August 1905, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

The following team will represent Wairarapa in the match against ‘Wellington on Wednesday: Pull-back, Williams; three-quarters. J. O'Leary, Ungers, Wrigley; five-eighth, P. O’Leary; half, Logan: wings. Gray. Armstrong: forwards. Wiolcens. Workman, F. Johnson. Tl. McKcnr**. Beard, Spackman, The team is a stronger one than met Welling ton at Carterton some week® ago. Rogers strengthens the back division, and Wickens, Workman and Johnson the forwards. The Wellington front-rankers will find in Wickens and Workman, the Wairarapa pair, fot-men worthy of their steel. Wickens is the most dashing forward in the Wairarapa, and a first-class "hooker.” This will be Workman’s first

game for AVairarapn. as on other occasions ho has no’, been able to get away to play. In order to make the AVnirnrapa team as strong as possible, tho Selection Committee have selected the team from the Thursday union as well us tho Saturday union players. ... ROUGH PLAY. There was some very rough play in the Old Bo\v-Potone match at the Athletic Park on Saturday for tho Charity Cup. and one Petone player struck tliree or four blows at an opponent. One blow narrowly missed the lace of the plaver for whom if was intended and further attempts wore subsequently made to get a blow homo. The Old Roy player complained to the referee, and stated that if ihe Pel one man struck him. ho would strike back. The referee said ho did not seo tho action of the Petone man. Tlrmc wa* a lot of “dirty** piav, and several times tho crowd howled for men to be pul off tho field. Probably no team has received such a bad time frolu a city crowd us the Petone team did on Saturday. *A meeting of the Referees' Association wa* held last night. Mr J. Laughton providing. The Wellington Rugby Union wrote requesting that th© association should forward to the Union a copv of the evidence taken at an inquiry hold by a sub-committee of the association into the recent action of a referee in ordering a Kin Ora player off the field. It was decided to inform tho Rugby Union that no record of the evidence had been kept. A letter was received from the AVellington Rugby Union in reply to a request from the association that th© Union should grant a donation towards defraying expenses in connection with entertaining delegates to Hie recent referees’ conference It was slated that the request had been forwarded on to th© New Zealand Rugby > It was decided that llie Wellington Union be requested to withdraw tho letter sent to the New Zealand Union. Tho matter of making representations with a view to getting th© ground at Newton Park properly marked out, was left over for consideration by a combined meeting of the committees of tho association and the AA'ollington Rugby Union.