DUNEDIN RUGBY NOTES

NZ Truth, Issue 510, 27 March 1915, Page 12

DUNEDIN RUGBY NOTES

The opening day for the Dunedin Football Club will be April 10.

President Martin has stated that 40 members of the same Club have gone to the front. He considered that those left behind should train hard, and bring the Club into a forward position again.

Unless there is a great improvement on last year's form, the D.F.C. can't do it v The- senior team played 15 matches, lost S, won 4, and drew 3. If that really was a slight, improvement on the previous season'sr-well it's good. In presenting their 3Sth annual' report, the Zingaris' Committee remarked that the first fifteen failed to show the same keenness as the previous season's team, with the result that they had to drop down a place or* two m the competition, and be content with the honor of being the only team to defeat .the premiers. Still Zingari retains a. good reputation, m "Truth's" estimation.

In the Roslyn Chambers Mr. L. Kemnitz presided at the annual meeting of the Kaikorai Football Club.

The Kaikorai's rep. on the battlefields of the Northern world number 25.

Since the last annual meeting Mr. R. Chisholm has passed away. From the Club's Inception 30 years ago, Mr. Chisholm had filled the office of president. His death was a severe blow.

. The members /had worked together and made up their minds to be successful, and the result had been eminently satisfactory—they had won the senior nag with a fine record.

Mr. Sinclair, the Kaikorai, went very far indeed when he considered all the teams played clean football last season. Speaking for his own team he was not .too far out, but he might have left it at that.

The Kaikorai team will be able to take part m the matches this season, and while we can't expect it to go as good as last year, it is to be hoped it will make an honest bid. There's one dead 'un m the Kaikorai team whom it would pay Mr. Sinclair to brace up. Don't he know Mm?

The opening of the Kaikorai's season takes place on March 27.

Tho Alhambras have been m existence for 31 years, and their record during that period has been fuirly creditable. They were dead last year, but thero may be a resumption this time.

Peter Williams, the Alhambras' good 'un, will bo missed. Peter is away knocking spots off the , Kaiser, along with many other of the Alhambra boys. .The sec, Mr. Wilson, is away, too, sausage cutting instead of quill driving. Good luck to 'em.

The Alhambras held their first practice last Saturday.

Among the newly elected officebearers we notice Ruch names as Gco. Nelson and F. Given. Two good 'uns.

The chairman of the good' old muck tumbling Pirates said they did deck 'emselves m gold Jast year. Let us hope they'll take less mud baths and see better this term. It's a good old learn well packed with humorists. That came isnt too bad.

Fully 4f> of .tho Pirates have gone away to the front. Here's where the gold decking will come, m, for the Pirates can be terrible at times. They will win ahead there.

Thoro may bo a possibility of the Pirates putting m a first grade team this year, despite the two-thirds' deletion from their numbers.

After all we will have football of a kind m and about "Dunedln shortly, and, though It will not bo sensationnl, It can be no worse than last year's. It may be even better, for now blood Is often pood blood; it generally hns some acid m It, anyway. Lot us have 11 vo play above all, and no dcadhoadß. The, public, demand that. Mobs of old women can make fun, hellish fine fun too, but athletes on the ball should p'.ay the game. Last season the muck was shied at the public,, but somehow It mostly stuck to the players and the O.R.U. management. No doubt our loving friend, Mr. Harry Harris, of the "Granny Times." will remedy all that. He's a great man, is old Harry, but he'll do something. Won't you, Harry?