TARANAKI TIT BITS.

NZ Truth, Issue 881, 14 October 1922, Page 9

TARANAKI TIT BITS.

Kingston, , the All Black's full-back,, has quite recovered from his motor accident and expects to play again next season for his old club, Tukapa. JErines, three- quarter for ""thVtburing team and the Tukapa Club, is "picked 1 by good judges to be the. most promising player In the Taranaki, provided, of course, that he does not develop that . fatal football malady, swelled head. He is fast arid nippy and handles and kicks well. The New Plymouth Boys' High SchooF has a clinking team this season as witness the cricket score they ran up against Nelson i College. Their backs play great football, especially Brown, Poden and Shaw, who m a very short time should prove acquisitions to the senior teams of the province,. Unfortunately their entry for the Moasear Cup series was sent m too late and^eould. not be accepted. "Which, all things considered, was probably a good thing for the winners .(Auckland Grammar School), \ . To run three times round Mt. Egmont and perhaps once or twice over the top before breakfast would be as nothing to the faithful followers of the, great game m Taranaki if they were rewarded with a good fast game of Rugby for their trouble. But;, serve them up a dud game and charge two; beautiful robertos for the privilege and you raise their ire; or, m other words, "get their goats." Well, the latter calamity has happened over the * Auckland v. Taranaki match, anfcl several thousand pa3 r ing Angoras are still tearing round the. dairy farms about New Plymouth The game was described by one cf the: oldest Rugby players m the province .to this scribe as easily the^ worst exhibition ever seen there, and the charge of two shillings was considered outrageous. To quote his own words: "Fail' dinkum, boy, I have seen better Rugby played out at the flaxmills after work, and to charge two bob was red .hot, and that's putting it mildly. If the Rugby Union want the League game to become popular here they could ndt do more than they are doing to help them. And the Taranaki team! Well, Til say this about the selector: the League here is earnestly hoping that he won't go over to them, badly and all as they want recruits." — Pretty' strong words, but they about sum up .the feeling as regards the AucklandTaranaki match m ■particular, andother matches as well. S6 it is apparent that if the Taranaki Rugby Union, wishes to hold its public next season's management and team will have to show a big improvement on the one just closed. Tukapa won the championship after playing consistently .good football right through the season.' Okiawa were close up second. Brown, the well-known rep. and captain of the famous Service team, had the misfortune to break a small bone m his foot whilst playing for Tukapa. He is making a good recovery, however, and will be seen out again next season if -all goes well.