ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15594, 10 August 1921, Page 8

ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL.

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, llit: proposal to inaugurate an annual Aflsoiiatifii* Cujf to'uriianlent among the minor ussociaHods ?ii th'e' Ninth Island tins been greeted uilli il gWdit degree of enthusiasm throughout the island, find letters of commendation are being received by tlie Poverty Bay Association from which the suggestion emanated. A letter has been received from Mr W. Dawson, of Wellington. a soccer enthusiast, who stales: ‘‘Tim Poverty Buy Association is to be congratulated oli tlm splendid proposal to have a cup competition for the minor associations, and tllel'e- call be no re/ison why such a competition should not, In: started at one! , with rimers:-.- ( am fin advocate of tiie splendid principle of equal disiiibutiuit Of games, and I have drawn up a. suggested m-I iodide-of games, demonstrating how this principle* may bo in-cot-pofiited lit the- management of H cup (uiir/iiiinfcnt.-” Mr Da'vVso'd fi first (able here demonstrates that il. in' i 922; fid! Gisborne Association should have t.uO matches, say with Hawke’s Bay and Wan.gitnu?,- oil ft-s home grounds, and one game, with Wiilkato at Hamilton, it would next- year play Hawke’s Bay at- Napier and Wanganui at Wanganuf. and Waikato at Gisborne. Unis it would have three games at home in two seasons, and three away. 1 he principle- would apply in regard to any number of associations, and all visits would be returned twelve months later. Mb Dhwsoii considers this- the most sntisfacTorJ- method of conducting Hie Noith Island Minor Assoeiiition's cup trophy, and his belief is fully' supported by most- local pkiyers; In i in elaboration oi his l first table, Mr JJawstiii sets oat a. hypothetical series of matches, ns /of--lows : Bay of Plenty (at- home), loses to Waikato;'Gisborne defeats Hawke’s Bay at Gisborne; Taranaki, loses on its lmmo ground to Wanganui; and Palmerston North, at home, defeats Wairarapa. In the second round, Gisborne visits WnikldO. lit. Hamilton, and Palmerston North visits Wanganui. Thus in the two rounds, each of (lit* teams remaining hiiAe had oik- game at homo and one a wily. Tlie filial, say between Gisborne alid Wanganui, is played lit Gisborne. Hi _ ibe following year, the.first round visits are returned, Palmerston going to \Vairin',-Ipa, Taranaki to Wanganui, Gisborne to Hawke's Bay, and Bay of Plenty to \\ aikrtlo. The records will thus at any time show where visits are owed, and each association will receive a reasonable quola of games upon the home grounds*; ('no provision that is included in the scheme is that all drawn or tied games shall be awarded lo the visiting team, unless rep laved within L’t days.