A DUNEDIN BOY IN A SCOTTISH INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM.

Otago Witness, Issue 2666, 19 April 1905, Page 46

A DUNEDIN BOY IN A SCOTTISH INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM.

Mi W. T. Ritchie, who received his International Cap in Rugby football, and played for Scotland against Ireland at Edinburgh on 25th February, is a Dunedin boy, a it!, we believe, the second New Ze dander who has become an International, the first being A. N. Fell, of Nelson and Edinburgh University. Mr Ritchie was for six or seven years at Wanganui Collegiate Sc'kiol. where he took more than a score of ti opines in athletics, was three years .Senior Champion of the School, and captained the first Rugby fifteen, besides being for two years head of the School. He went up from there to Cambridge, and played for the University, as well as for the London Scottish at once, gaining his "Hlue" two years ago by playing in the Tnter-'Varsity match against Oxford, both in 1903 and 1904, as a threequarter-back. He also won a. number 1 of trophies in his college sports. This year he "goes down," and before doing so he has been lucky enough to reach the coveted place in an Internation.il Team. We understand that he has all along combined with his athletic victories a fair success in the schools, having done well enough at Wanganui, passing his "ma trie." and medical "prelim." early, and taking his degree at Cambridge with <i good third class in the Mechanical Science Tripos. He has been studying for the profession of an electrical engineer.

OPENING CXF THE HARRIER SEASON ON SATURDAY, APRIL 8: TEAMS PRESENT AT THE COMBINED RUN FROM THE NORTH DUNEDIN DRILLSHED