RUGBY FOOTBALL

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6623, 12 September 1908, Page 13

RUGBY FOOTBALL

TARANAKI v. WELLINGTON. •\ match that promises to bo of interest will 1)0 placed this afternoon between Hie select of Taranaki and Wellington ■vnresentatives At the end of the- season players have just about reached the top of their form, and xt is m these late matches that one sees tho best m 11,0 game. The team representing the t,utter province seems on paper to be a verv strong one. despite the absence ot Jtvnott and Column, and should uphold t lie reputation of previous teams tuat have visited us. Ot tho Wellington men, all have been in training, and after the number of matches they have played together they should be able to giu a (irst-class exhibition. Mr Wylie '.ill bt he referee. The curtain-raiser between I d one and Southern fourths has been declared olf owing to the suburban team Hit being able to get into town in time.

OLD V. PRESENT TECHNICAL SCHOOL BOYS. At Miramar this afternoon a, Rugby match will ho plaved between old boys and present boys of the Technical School, p is expected that a Technical School fifteen will bo arranged to take part in Uio fourth-class Rugby competition next season. Next Friday evening the old hoys will entertain present boys at 6mnm-. Following arc the teams for this afternoon -.—Old boys—Shearer, mcLar tudl Hutchison, Robinson, Doherty, BasultlK Tohnsin, Alexander Graham Ktt Cha « n ’ Present ?t4den: Hodge, Watson, Tilyard Holey, To “nil Thirkcll Wallis, Shaw, Williomsom Lewil' McLeod, A. Hamilton, W. Kamilton. c »i!^ < tssjfsrjsrss! psiarfrSa.'Wß V,rd“ Hall last night, by the patron of flie club, Mr A. H. Fulltord. THE NORTHERN UNION GAME. TO-DAY’S MATCH AT PETONE. By last night’s express therefrom ’ Auckland a team of Northern Union football players, who will play a return match with Wellington at Istone this afternoon. The proceeds of the game after deducting out-of-pocket ox- £££• of the visiting team, will be devoted to a fund which is being raised to promote tho development of the Northorn Union game throughout the Domeeting 'of delegates will be held tojii»ht, for the purpose of forming a New Zealand governing body, to t)e known as tho New Zealand Rugby Football League. Delegates from Auckland, Taranaki, Palmerston North, Wellington, Dunedin, and Invercargill will bo preTlio following will represent Auckland to-dnv Full-back, S. Riley; three-quar-ters. "IT. Kowo, C. Dillamore, Redwood; fivo-oigUtlis, W. Tyler, A. Asher; half, E. Wynyard; forwards, Trevorthon, Dunning. Mackrell, McDonald, Hooper, Barclay.