FOOTBALL.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 174, 28 August 1914, Page 9

FOOTBALL.

THE CANTERBURY UNION. A meeting of the Managing Committee of the Canterbury Eugby Union was held last evening. Present: —Messrs G. H. Mason (president), F. T. Evans, C. Buclianan, F. D. Kesteven, C. Evans, A. E. Byrne, A. E. McPhail, C. Hasell. The treasurer reported that the proceeds from the match between the Infantry Expeditionaries and tKe Canterbury team, played at Lancaster Park last Saturday as a benefit to the Canterbury Patriotic Fund, amounted to £164 odd. Payment of this amount was made to the fund, as a contribution from the Canterbury Eugby Union and the Lancaster Park Board of Control, the union having arranged the match, and both bodies foregoing their percentages of the. gate receipts. A suggestion was made that the union should maike a further contribution, to bring the amount up to £2OO. The feeling of the members of the committee favoured this, but it was considered advisable that the matter should be deferred until after the remaining representative matches are over, whe» the union would know its financial position exactly, and might be able to make a larger contribution than suggested. A vote of thanks was accorded to the union's sub-committee which had arranged last Saturday's match in aid of the Patriotic Provident Fund. The secretary was instructed to write to the military officers who had made the playing of the match possible the union's appreciation of their action. It was decided to play a fifth grade representative match with Wellington asa" curtain-raiser'' to the SouthlandCanterbury match on September 5. The Canterbury Ladies' Hockey Association wrote accepting the union's terms for playing the association's match with the English ladies' hockey team at Lancaster Park on September 12, on which day the Canterbury-Otago Eugby match is to be played. The secretary reported that four footballs had been sent to the Addington camp for the use of the Expeditionaries there—two for the cavalry and two for the infantry. The following fifth-grade matches will be played at Lancaster Park on Saturday, at 1.30 p.m.:—Lyttelton v. Eastern, Telegraph v. Western, Sydenham v. Waltham Marists.

CANTERBURY v. WAIRARAPA. Press Association. MASTERTON, August 27. The representative Rugby match, Canterbury v. Wairarapa, was played to-day in fine, weather. The visitors outclassed the local men in all departments of the game and won by twentytwo points to nil. Although the score was large the game was fast and interesting. Canterbury did most of the scoring through the instrumentality of the backs, who were much faster than the Wairarapa men. The first spell was hardly contested. Wairarapa played a good defensive game and only six points were scored against , them. In the second spell, however, they went to pieces, Canterbury scoring in quick Buecession. Tries were scored by M'Leod (2), Cade, Gray, Boag, and Cummins. M'Leod converted one and Gray one.

WANG-ANUI v. HAWKE'S BAY. NAPIER, August 26. The representative Rugby match Wanganui v. Hawlte's Bay, played on the Recreation Ground to-dav, resulted in a win for Ilawke's Bay by 11 points (three tries, oue of which was converted) to f! (a penalty goal). SOUTH CANTERBURY v. NORTH OTAGO. TIM Aft 17,I 7 , August 27. South 'Canterbury (2.'i) defeated North Otago (6). NEW ZEALAND ASSOCIATION. WELLINGTON, August 27. At a meeting of the New Zealand Football Association it was decided to disqualify for life and warn off all grounds .under the Association's jurisdiction, A. P. Newboid, for refusing to give up the books of the Wellington Before,es' Association. It was decided to postpone, for a year consideration of the proposal to get a French team to tour Australia and New Zealand.