ASSOCIATION GAMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1851, 30 March 1904, Page 58

ASSOCIATION GAMS.

In the Associabion match between Oxford and Cambridge Universities, played on February 13, the latter won by five goals to nil.

The Kaitangata Third Grade Association team wish a match against a Third Grade team afc Dun&din on Good Friday, and also against a Third Grade team at Kaitangate on Easter Monday. Can any oi our Third Grade teams accommodate them?

At a meeting of the Wellington Foothall Association held recently a letter was received from the New Zealand Football Association stating that il had considpred tho proposad tour of the New Soiitli Wales toam, and had arranged preliminaries. The tour was limited to cix weeks from Sydney to Sydney, and it rested with the* New Zealand Association to make the best of the tiino at disposal. Arrangements for financing the visitors' fares had been made with the Bank of New Zealand, and forms of guarantee would shortly bo sent to the Wellington Association's officers for sigiiature by the gentlemen whom they selected' as guarantors. Arrangements were being made for it-suing 5& coupons throughout th-e colony for guaranteeing tho financial success of the proposed tour.

The following is the suggested programme of the New South Wales team's tour: — June 22, leave Sydney ; June 27, arrive in Auckland ; lune 29, play Thames ; July 2, play Auckland : July 6, play Palmerston North ; July 9, play Wellington ; July 14, play Ohristcihurch ; July 16, play Dunedin ; July 20, play Invercargill ; July 23, play Otago or South Island at Dunedin ; July 28, play New Zealand at Christchurch ; July 30, play IVew Zealanel at Wellington and leave for Sydney.

Mr F. 0. Courtney, secretary of the New Zealand Association, who last year visited Sydney, was asked to inform th-e meeting what prospects he considered the New Zealand teams would havp against the New South Wales team. He said he caw a match between the two prominent clubs in Sydney, and considered the play all round' forward equally as good as that shown in the last Auckland-Wellington contest. The shooting and headwork of the New South Wake forwards -were superior to anything he had seen in New Zealand. In comparing the back divisions he said the play shown in Sydney wa-s quite equal to New Zealand, interprovincial standard. The players in Sydney went in for consistent training, and a number of the best players were Naval Rese-rro men.