FOOTBALL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18050, 25 September 1920, Page 13

FOOTBALL.

OTAGO v. SOUTHLAND. Tho football sca&oii will bo brought to a cloas bliis aitemoou witli the matan Utago v. feouthland, which will be played at (Jarisbrook at U.oO. Hie visitors are now the holders of tne Raniurly £>iueid, aud it will be interesting to see- pray tue team tnat was abio to wrest the snimd Irom Wellington. 'Hie \isitors have a line lorwaxct divia.on, and thoir backs are aiso very sale. Otago defeated Southland by.il to y about six weeks <ugo, and will no doubt try again to secure a victory. Tl;e visitors arrived last iught, and wore met by omciais oi tlie locai union. A large number of supporters from ikmtnland , are comang up to sec the game, and there' snculd tx; a ja-rge attcmctonco a.t Curisbrook. 'Uio game should provo a close and antorosting one. A peculiar position has arisen iu connection with tue appointment ot a referee lor the match to-day. The Southland Union asked that iYlr it. M'Jienzie, ot Dunedin, should act as referee, but the Otago Union, in view ot its decision that outside referees should be appointed for its intcrprovincial matches, declined to agree. ' 'iho Otago Union then submitted tile names of Messrs Guiney and Mercer, of (Jhristchuroh, to the Southland Union, and asked it to select one as the referee. Tlio -Southland Union refused to nccept either man, and again nut forward -te request for Mr M'Kenzie. 'Iho Otago Union once more decliuod, and lato on Thursday night decided to ask tho. New Kesiand Referees' Appointment Board in Wellington to appoint a referee, submitting the names of Messrs Mercer and Guiney. The Southland Union must have also decided to communicate with tho New Zealand .Appointment Board, and submitted the' name ot Mr M'Kenzie. At any rate, Mr E. S. Wilson, cecretary of the Otago Union, received a telegram from Wellington yesterday afternoon from the New Zealand Appointment Board stating that Mr M'Kenzio had been appointed as referee for tho match. Fea will not bo able to play to-day. Ward will be shift-eel in from wing threequarter to the five-eighth line, and M'Naughton (Zingari-Riehinond) will take Ward's place on the wing.

ASSOCIATION. The following members of the South Island Association football team left by the second express yesterday morning for Christchurch to take part in the first interisland inatoh under Association rules, which ■will bo pLayod to-daj :—Messrs 1,. H. Soott (in charge), Ruddiman. Dryden, Dickel Johnston. Dunn, and Balk. '