FOOTBALL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 30, 20 September 1911, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

1 T< UMOKIiOWS, NORTHERN * UNION MATCH. (Special to “Stratford Post.”) Readers are reminded of the match to-morrow at Victoria Park between the Taranaki and the North Island Native team representatives. This is the first match under the Northern Rules to ho played in Stratford, and is sure to draw a large crowd. The Northern game is faster, more open, and spectacular than the Rugby Union game, and as the native tcahi is composed of representatives of different Rugby Unions'and the Taranaki team is a very fast one, having had hard luck in being beaten by Auckland for the Northern Union Cup, the game is sure to rouse the. enthusiasm of the public. In Australia the Northern game has quite eclipsed the Rugby Union game. The following is the Taranaki team : Full-back, E. Stockman. Three-quarters, D. Twohill, C. MacLqan, M. Julian. Five-eighths, N. Kyle. Halves, C. Moir, L. Ballot. Forwards. R. Pukere, E. Fincham, L. Walsh, C. Robinson, W. Horoii, A. Cooper. Mr. A. Lile will act as referee. Hone Tocher, the Taranaki halfback, will not play in this raatchi, on account of an injury to his arm, sustained in the Auckland v. Taranaki match. ' POSTAL v. RAILWAY. The lightning-jerkers, ink-slingers, pencil-pushers, letter-sorters, plugS ushers, linemen, and messengers of le Post and Telegraph Department, Stratford, will meet the Stratford Railway officials in a game of Rugby in Victoria Park on Monday, the 2otn inst. (Dominion Day), at 3.30 p.m. It is expected that the interest created by this match will have tiie elfocc of closing the shops for at least a fe\. hours, in which case a collection will he taken up in aid of the Hospital. The Exchange cadettes have offered to provide refreshments. The following will, represent Post and Telegraph :—Full-hack, Hume ; three-quarters. Waters, Austis, Anderson; five-eighths, Kivoll; half, Sliarrock; wing forwards, Bennett, Sheahan; forwards, Rennie, Corkill, Cato, Dowling, Craddock, Brookes, Sustins.