WELLINGTON.

NZ Truth, Issue 474, 18 July 1914, Page 11

WELLINGTON.

(By "Dunno.") It was it graceful act of courtesy on the part of the W.F.A. to postpone all mutches last Saturday m view of the Important fixture- Wellington League h:ul with their KngUsh brothers of that ilk. In London, when the New Zealand AH Hlacks played, the Soccer people acted similarly. 'Tls a pity the other Wellington sports bodies did not see lit to drop their games. The Soccer scribe- m th« "Doughmlnlon" Imrps upon the W.RA.'s greed for filthy lucre, but last Saturday thoy showed that collecting specie was not their only aim In life. Wellington will probably hnvo to send a tenm down to Canterbury some* where- late m August to bring the Brown Shield back—that is. If Jim Pa. ton picks the best team. If Jim does this the .Shield should come back all right, for there'll bo some hot members m Wellington's beat team. What has happened to Trophy Tommy Atkins lately? Why does Thomas hide his light under a bushel (an o.p. silver one "Dunno" presumes)? He's not been seen nosing round the solemn conclaves of the N./..RA. lately. Wonder if "Dunno's" little par In connection with the annual meeting of the Council had anything to do with it? Or, perhaps, they're jerrleil to Trophy Tom anil his giddy little ways. Shares m the Kllblrnle Park scheme huvo been going ofT m good style lately — about :<OO having been taken up within the l;u,t fortnight. Percy PyeSmith holds the record, for besides being the largest indlvldunl shareholder (he holds lf> shares), he has got rid of 75 more. Swifts, as a club, have done very well, and easily head the list, while, tn marked contrast. Thistles have not done a solitary dom thing, and, us far a« "Dunno" knows, thoy don't hold half a aha.ro between them. Scotsmen arc no mean, tboy're carefu' — vcra ! Ives (Corinthians) , put out last year for misconduct on the field (which wan his second offence of the kind In three years), haa boon reinstated. "Dunno" hopes lye» has learnt hl« Jeason and will, from this on, "play the jouno." This, In a double sense, he cm do If ho llkc«, if anybody win, Th<rc m nh*)o. liiU-ly no donbt urtbut Ive.i >»-mj^I :i starling player— V lJt '"' WlUlt -" < tv '^h^

his "nerves" under control. The grand bazaar, to be promoted by the W.F.A. and. the Tramways Band, is to kick off on or about November 1 next, and will transpire m the Skating Rink. Committees are now hard, at work, with Jim Paton as chairman, and Messrs. Alf Williams and Mills as joint hon. secretaries; Pretty soon things will be booming-. "Dunno" thtinks it's a jolly good idea of the Band and the WJFVA.. joining forces and working hand m hand. S'matter o' fact, he supposes the Band will work trumpet m hand, but so long as the public rolls up hand m pocket, everything m the garden should be lovely. The Tramway Troubs can cadge like 'ell where a bazaar is concerned, so the W.P.A. should have no cause to regret taking a partner into the biz. . .■-..■■■■ Next Saturday week, as a curtainraiser to the Cories-Thistle match, the Management Committee of the W.FA. will play a game against a team representing the referees. This curtainraiser should be really pure. Just fancy Tommy Thompson and Albert Wells m the forward line, not to speak of Alf Williams as centre half. "Dunno" hopes a referee will bo chosen from amongst the youngsters m the sixth grade. Then there would^ be music. So the New Zealand Council have reopened the Crouch case after all the blather and bother of the last few weeks. An Appeal Board is to be set up, and, strange, my masters, this is just what the W.F.A. asked for. "Dunno" hopes that, as a result of the profound deliberations of these 'ere appeal gents, the "affaire Crouch" will soon be relegated to the limbo of forgotten things. Wiri Baker, outside left for the Revrectians, has been dropped back into the juniors. Baker has been, a weak spot m the seniors for two years, his falling being a disinclination to mix it when an opponent looks anything like business. In fact, Baker gets a bad attack of cold feet, or, rather, he got it years ago, as a boy playing for his school team, and it became chronic. Hindmarsh, a young bloke from the Cold Country, has been promoted to the first team from the juniors, and not before It was time. ( 1 ■