FOOTBALL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 15, 10 September 1912, Page 5

FOOTBALL.

TARANAKI v. CANTERBURY

Much interest is being taken in I'hursday's big match, \yUeu Cantorbury (tno team who beat fOtago) v\i.. 06 pitied against Taraiiaki. Althougli oeacen by •• Wellington, Canterbury i. certainly a fine combination, and the match at tite-Snow Grounds is certai i to produce'a 1 fafct, open and interesaiu game. On tthoi arrival of the Canterbury team to-night they will be met by officers of "the Taranaki"Rugby Union, and members of -the JAeceptiou Committee, a self-constituted bouy oi Rugby en'tilusiasts, aiid will be we.coined by the Mayor at the Municipal Chambers. Afterwards, the Egmom Club will take tiio footballers under iib hospitablo foof, and billiards and card. will he the order of the evening. To morrow night Madame Bernard, with her usual gfjinjrosity, (fcasTinvited tu team to pay a visit to His Majesty'; Tneatre, aii/offer which .will-most certainly be heartily accepted. On Thursday night the Stratford Football Club, as announced in ahoUier column, are holding their annual dinner in ti.ie Town Hall, and the Canterbury team will be the honoured guests; Tne meel als won tliis season v.ill be presented during the evening,,

SCHOOLS COMPETITION

THE DUAL HALF HOLIDAY. Mr. James McLeod (chairman of the raranaki Rugby Union;, at a recent function, remarked that a town of the size of Now Plymouth should bo railing half-a-dozen teams; too many of the young follows who should bo playing were nowadays watching the game from the terraces. Ho was glad to say that within a week life membership tickets would be issued to men who had represented the province for thirty years back. Next year lie hoped to institute a schools competition in which all the schools in the province would be given an opportunity to play for trophies and given encouragement in other ways by the Rugby Union. .One of the chief drawbacks which they had to contend against was the dual half-holiday. Tin Union, however, had this mutter alsc in hand, and shortly a petition would be circulated throughout the province, in which they were going straight out for a Saturday half-holiday. He was quite satisfied that if all branches ol sport pulled together over this mattoi they could bring about the desired change at any time they wished.