FOOTBALL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 143, 9 August 1911, Page 5

FOOTBALL.

Adelaide, August S. The Australian Football Council decided that at least £IOO be spent during each of the next three years for propaganda work. New Zealand’s share is £SO annually. POVERTY BAY RUGBY UNION. (Per Press Association.) Gisborne, August 8. Poverty Bay Rugby Union passed a resolution urging the Now Zealand Union, in accordance with rule G of the conditions governing the Ranfurly Shield match, immediately to fix a date for the challenge match Poverty Bay v. Auckland. Members expressed indignation at the manner in which their challenge, sent in three or four months ago, had boon ignored and a date given for a match with the South Auckland Rugby Union : n preference to theirs.

TO-MORROW'S BiC ATTRACTION.

MAORI TEAM v. TARANAKI. The above teams will meet on the Show Ground to-morrow afternoon, and a good game is expected. The visitors arrived in Stratford by last night’s mail train, and wore met at the station by officials of the Rugby Union. There are seventeen of them, including the manager, and they are billetted at the Stratford Hotel. The Taranaki team is as follows: Full-back: Coleman. Three-quarters: Goodwin, Stohr, and i Cameron. Five-eighths: Mynott and McLeod. Half-back: C. Brown. Wing-forward: Taylor. Forwards: Cain, Osborne, Young, Tamu, Whittington, Hawkins, and Kissick. The following notes on the visiting players should bo of interest:— h ull-back, Hughes (Manawatu): A strong kick and good all-round man. Three-quarters, Rogers (Rotorua): Toured Australia witii last year’s combination. A fast, clever player. The place kick of the team. Five-eighth, _ Kaipara (Poverty Bay): A brilliant attacking player. Equal to Hunter at his best in" his famous corkscrew runs.

Three-quarters, Ryland, Poverty Bay): Another player who toured Australia. A good scoring man. Ho is tiie heaviest of the backs.

Five-eighths, Bongo Nuku ; Bay of Plenty): Vice-captain. ,ho greatest general among tho backs. An old Te Ante boy. He has also played for Otago University. A i ound and heavy player. Centre three-quarter, M. Winiata (Manawatu); North Island and IvLanawatu rep. A very sound defensive player. hive-eighth, Ratima: A Cevor player both in defence and attack.

Three-quarter, Bluett: One of the colts. Very speedy and a great scoring man. Centre-half, Piki (Canterbury) : Tho midget of the team. He :s a very small player, and is much admired by tho small boys. Clever in attack and defence.

Wing forward, Makalniri: Very fast and a deadly tackier. A gcod scoring man. Forwards—Dawson (Hawke's Bay :: A heavy, clever forward. • ’ochraho (Auckland): A hard grafter and clever with his feet. Moana . Hawke’s Bay): The lock. The big man of tho team. Clever on the line. Said to bo •a coming Now Zealand rep. Takarangi (Wanganui): Captain oi the term. Well-known to Taranaki ei U’usiasts. Has represented the North, Island, Hawke’s Bay, and Wanganui. lie is still one of the best all-nuin:! players in New Zealand. Grace Tsupoj: Another Te Auto boy. A young player who shows grout ptumire. Burnett (Otago); Toured Australia!. Fast and clever.

The team'are in splendid condition, and have been training carefully. The backs are all fast, clever players, and are capable of giving a fine exposition of Rugby as it should lie played. The forwards are all keen and hard, and are very clever in dribbling rushes, and line work. The team is in charge of Mr. W. 1. Parata, a fine sport, who is financing the tour with a view to bringing on 1 , tin* playing qualities of the young natives, an! who hopes at a later date to bo able to take the team on a tour of (Rent Britain. He is confident that His n am uili | at up a good fight to-moiMMv.