SPORTS AND PASTIMES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19952, 20 November 1926, Page 14

SPORTS AND PASTIMES.

MAORI FOOTBALL TEAM,

WELCOME TO BURGUNDY. La Vie Sportive, a weekly sporting paper issued every Thursday in Burgundy published a striking welcome to the Maoris. The large type was carried across three columns of the paper. The article read “WELCOME THE MAORIS. “You are welcome to our Burgundy. Be at heme, all the pleasure is ours. From the day we knew you were coming we have wanted to see you. “Wo love Rugby. We want to learn and to perfect ourselves. We are proud to bo taught by such masters a.s you. Your demonstration of the game will never be forgotten. When you are back in your dear old country remember Burgundy. Claude Patin. “President Burgundy Committee of Rugby.’’ On the same page is a short article en titled, “We Must Train.’’ The writer records with astonishment how the Maoris trained on board ship, and then, immediately on landing in France, set themselves conscientiously to got into form. Imagine a French team'on tour training at sea and then getting busy immediately they arrived, say, at Melbourne 1 Impossible! “Our men couldn’t bo induced,’’ he says, “to waste afternoon after afternoon’’ in practising the handling of the ball; their one aim is to play. And the result of this lack of practice and training?—accidents, sprains, torn muscles. “Wo prefer to play without preparation. We believe in miracles. But there are no miracles in sport-’’ BOWLING. FOUR-RINK CHAMPIONSHIP. Roslyn v. Kaikorai, at Kaikorai, on Tuesday.—Roslyn: Thomas, Worthington, Todd, Jones; O’Connell, Heycock, M‘Gillivray, Campbell; Dickson, Harraway, Tyrell A. Barnett; Wood, Matheson, A. F. Anderson, C. Anderson. Mornington v. Caversham (Mornington names first). —Wallace, Hobbs, Perry, Whelan 23, Scott, Giles, Will, Thomson 8; Evans, Connell, Cunningham, Smith 20, eecroft, Anderson, Forrester, Blackwood 12; Brown, Blackley,Vance, Hardie 14, Walmsley, Ball, Hanning, Brown 0; Woods, Barclay, Thomson, Holgate 13, Stubbs Dempster Forster, Mitchell 15. Totals: Mornington 70. Caversham 44. Taieri v. Anderson’s Bay (Taieri names first). —M’Pheat, Haigh, Leith, Cousins 22, Orr Bcndall, Robertson, Hinchcliff 11; Currie, M. Thompson, W B. Allan, D. Gibson 11, Pearce, M'lntosh, Ashton/ Weaherburn 23; Edwards, J. M'Leod, A. M’Lcod, Carswell 24, Harrison, Meggett, Mooney, Campbell 13; Wilson, Murray, J. Thomson, Stevenson 18, J. L. Wilson, Connor, Walker, Read 14. Totals: Taieri 75, Anderson’s Bay Cl.