FOOTBALL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2511, 30 April 1902, Page 51

FOOTBALL.

NOTES BY FULL BACK. At" a meeting of the members of the Alimbra Football Club held on Saturday ight R. Bennet was elecred captain of th 6 irst Fifteen and A. Hobson deputy-captain. Adamson, a useful forward not afraid ol work, who has been in. the Owaka district for several months past, has returned to town, and was in the front of a good game with his old club, Kaikorai, on Saturday. Bert Cramcad, late threequarter-back for Dunedin, who intended joining- 'Pirates this sea&on, has had to give the game up for a time owing to an injury to his back, received while ruaning at Sargood's plcnia and aggravated in a recent practice game with the Pirates. At a meeting of footballers hold in Palmersttm North on Monday. April 21, it waa ■ decided to re-form th<» Manawahj Hugbj> i Union. .-Jid to apply to the New Zealand Rugby Union for affiliation. Donations amounting to £!♦ 14s towards tlie debt oi £+8 4s 6d of the union wore promised. i "The South African war crippled the i Mastertou. Club," remarked one member at the last meeting of the Mastorton Football Club. M. 11. Wood, the ex-Wellington player. ha» been elected captain of the C-hristchurch First Fifteen. Mr Keith Vallanoe, of the Pirates (Invercargill) Club, gave a full rig-out of football garments to Uie best all-round player in the junior match against Alhambra. and hii eltibmates voted the prize to Alex. Strang. The well-known Native footballer Arthui • Warbrick has been engaged by the Tourisi Department to conduct visitors to the remarkable nights near Rotorua, in the Hoi Lakes district. Tho annual meeting of the delegates ol the North Otago football clubs decided to appoint a sole selector for North Otago representative teams. It was unanimously agreed to ask Mr C Grant to fill the position for the seascn. Those interested in. football will be pleased to hear that Mr Grant has accepted the appointment. The following office-bearers were elected at a meeting of the Southland Referees' Association: — President, Mr R. Galbraith : vice-presidents. Messrs H. Hawthorne and T. D. Lennie ; lion, secretary, Mr E>. W. J. Morton ; (ieneial Committee — Messrs AGeddes, R. Donaldson. I. Jenkins. J. M'Ewan. A. Stratig, D. Morton. and A. M'Gavock. The funeral of the latp Mr R. W. Treloar, well-known in Chrirtchurch football circles, took place laofc Thursday « ftp. noon, the rortege leaving- the residence of hia brother-in-law, Mr Bettel. There v.an a large attendance of the members of the Albion Football Club, of which the deceased! was one of the foundera. Representatives from the MerivaV and Sydenham Football Olubft. Canterbury Rugby Union, Midland a.nd Lancaster Park Cricket Clubs, and th* Canterbury Cricket Council .vere also present. Numerous wreaths were sent, among which were two from the Albion Football and Cricket Clubs respectively. Messrs L. T. Watkins, T. French, T. f-lreig. J. Weeton, J. Moir, and .7. Arnold, clubniatps of the deceased, acted aa pallbearer'-. The interment took place at the Addington Cemetery, and thp Rev. A. W. Aveiill <ni. ducted the «-rvice at the grave. It is difficult to understand tlie policy of tlie Knprlihh Rukdj- TJnion Commiftfe in not promptly publishing their decisions to points of law. The remark has boon made before, (spates an Knglish contemporary), we are aware, but it must be made again and again in the hope that some day a progressive spirit will make itst-lf felt on the hide-hound ( oiit&rv a. 1 ism of the go\crnors of what is still a prom game. It appear* that the committee a s-lio-t tiiiio agj had before them a nueilion from tho (Jlouc ccier .Society of Referees, -.irking whore tho free kick should be awarded in the event of a playrr shout- • iug "All on -v.de " when li.- < olleacrucfc are not aU on Mtle. Tl-e ruling was rfiven that the kick -'lould bf taken ar the place wlifre the pliiye'- tli'J tho wrong «li'jutiti«. That is to say, if .» fill back who ha» n->f kii kc<\ tho ball at all 4ionts "All on Pido," the penalty mint bo gnen at the nlace where ho is Btaiirlinß. in spite of the fact that the ball' «a-> kicked by a colleague standing in front of him. In lPK^m' to tli<» question of junif.r interpiovmrial ma i. he?, connnuiiicatinn' were roa'l at tW niPciiiiK of tho Canterbuiy llugby Union fiuiu fhn Wel'inpton and Otago Kughy Uiuoii-, botli of which ?s l/>(lfl %vit ' 1 tlio proposal. !>tit tlip> lattei union <lc=ir«Hl a inoro lucid iJffinition of thf> term ' junior" plavnr-.. Tlio Wolhnarton Ma»i3gpmf>Jit Committrc «- l a t"tl that it would cndoav/U,- to mm\ a i<>nrp*r ntati\c iimior team in f'auLTbury at the end of i ho prp«ent «paHon. The hrcr.^tarv of thp C R.F I". wn-> in-tructed to advise thp Otago T'nion that a junior slaver was nnf> who took parl in thp union's junior coinjiptitiocis, and also to state that :hc Cantorburv Union would s P p if ■& wpi-p-ioosiljlp to <.end a representative jimioi icam :o Otago tlii- reason Tli" Auckland Rusby football soa<-on "ill >p o;>pned on May 10, when n Mait will bo nau.> with the District Cup c' mpptition in lip various grade*. Tlip Auckland Rugby Union'-* aniiii.il rcjorL '•ays that, except in tlie matter of inan^c. the result of last f eaton'i football inder the control of the union w.is altogether atisfattory. The repre-entative team proved iucce.s-,ful in all its < iißagcment-. thus •xtendinp the ]>oi-iotl during; wlncli Anc-kland ia» rfmaiiipd unbeaten to iive season*-. D-;i-ng that time 19 mat< lies- have been pl.-vvr-r], 6 being won. and three drawn, while the joints scored have been 251 as against 64. jabt Feafcon's matr-hes were against Now South Wales. Wellington, and Taranaki, he nrst-namcr' being the only one played in. Auckland. Judging from Saturday's matches, pay? 3 IVp-~s unter, it would appear as if tho senior clubs in Chri«-t<-hnrch w-re afa poorly off in the matt&i of reliable place-kicks thla

Beaaon as they were last. Of the six tries gained in the Christchurch-Merivale mat-ch only the two secured behind the posts were converted, and in the Linwood-Old Boya game only three goals were kicked from 11 tries. The footballs used were new ones, jhowever, and the players complained that ,they were difficult to manipulate. For some seasons past H. Frost, who lately Removed to Auckland, was regarded as the veteran footballer of Christchurch, and now lie naa left the Christchurch F.C. have pecured the services of H. C. Wilson, who tiO3 an even more lengthy career as a senior footballer than Frost had Wilson originally jplayed with, the old North Canterbury F.O. an 1885, says the Press, at the time such Well-known, players as G. H. N. Helmore, %. T. Chapman, W. Bean, J. D. Millton, tHaekell, J. G. Winsloe, and the d'Auvergne (brothers represented the club. Next season {Wilson, who was nicknamed " Baby," on jaeoount of his diminutive stature, was (chosen to play full-back for Canterbury, and Jhe filled that position in several of the rep. cinatcb.ee up to 1894-, when he removed to fSTapier, and subsequently played for Hawke's {Bay. Since then he has increased in weight n good deal, and if he gets back in anything Dike his old form he should again have a jbbance of being selected to represent Canterbury in the forthcoming matches. W Cocinber, a New Zealandcr, who hails from Milton (Otago), is playing in senior football in Sydney with Newtown. The one-time Milton three-quarter back ia now a dashing forward and the goal-kioker of the team which he represents. In the opening match of the N.S.W. Rugby season, played between Newtown and South Sydney, and jivon by the former by 23 points to 5, the ex-New Zsalander kicked two goals. ' It wonld appeal- as if Harold: Judd, the jNewtown forward who toured New Zealand [with the New South Wales team, and who »vas the best forward on the Cornstalk*' side fin their match on the Caledonian ground against Otago, had given up the game. He /was rofereeing in the opening match of the (N.S.W. Rugby season, Newtown v. South J3ydney, on Saturday, April 12.