PATRIOTIC FOOTBALL

Opunake Times, 25 July 1941, Page 5

PATRIOTIC FOOTBALL

OLD TIMERS AND PRIMARY SCHOOLS Football, as il should be played, will be witnessed at Ihe Domain tomorrow when Opunake Old Timers are scheduled to meet Kaponga Old Timers in a battle for the West Coast championship. Players of no mean skill in the past. Ihe Old Timers are reported to be in fine fettle and are

ready to give a good account of themselves when they don their jerseys and again take the hold. Opuimke is fielding a formidable combination that will take some overpowering and will be taking the field with the grim determination of winning the championship and their opponents will have to bring all their past skill into play if they desire to carry off the honour. The local fifteen will be picked from the following: B. Lusk, A. Clarke, W ally Tucker. Jim Dudley, A. Bnylis, A. Harvey, D. Tavlo”, J. Lusk, Isaac Bishop. C. Proton, K. Cm den. Metcalfe, Charlie TTo-

haia, Len Harvey, H. Fields, Jim Aim. C. Eowater. -I. Dempsey. Jackson. Trolove, Malay, Algar and Sinclair. 7-s-Sitfe Tournament Preceding the main match of the dav "will be a Primary

! Schools 7-a-Side Tournament i which has been {Arranged by Mr. jV. Elgar. Thirteen teams have been entered in the TournaI meat which is scheduled to j commence at 12.30 p.m. and the | prizes will be a silver cup, presented by the Opunake Football Club for the winners and a, football, presented by the President of the Opunake Footleal] Club, Mr. E. T. Wallis for the runners up.

The competing teams will he: Kaponga 1. Auroa 2, Pihama. 2, Te Kiri 1. Opunake 3, Convent 1. Oaonu.i 1. Rahotu 2. The chaw is as follows: Opunake B, a bye; Oaomii v. Te Eiri; Knponga v. Auroa B; Opunake C v. Auroa A: Pihama B v. Rahotu B; Pihama A, a bye Opunake A v Rahotu A; Convent, a hje. The finals of this tournament will he played during, the internal of the main match. For tlie modest admission fee,

which goes to the Patriotic Funds, patrons are assulred of an excellent days entertainment, when the Old Timers, with their past experience, should provide interesting football, and the Tournament with the good prizes offering, should be keenly contested.