RUGBY FOOTBALL.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 787, 18 August 1916, Page 2

RUGBY FOOTBALL.

THE FIRST GRADE COMPETITION The end of "ttie Rugby football season is now in sight. It is probable that when the Management, Committee of the Canterbury Rugby Union meets next Tuesday evening the Competitions Committee will recommend that the final scries of games in the first grade competition be played on September 2. By that time there will be a reduction in the number of teams engaged, and the destiny of the premiership should be decided. After that date, too, Lancaster Park will lie required for the Dominion ladies' hockey tournament. To-morrow's series of games will be the last competition matches of the season iii which the Christ's College and Christchiirch Boys' High School teams will take part. Xext week the first fifteens of those schools will leave Christchiirch to take part in the secondary schools tournaments, in which they engage annually—Christ's College for the iuter-coliegiate tournament at Wellington, and Boys' High School for the inter-high school tourney at Dunedin. They will then be on vacation. If the draw which was made at. the beginning of the second round of the competition were adhered to strictly, Marists ami Boys' High School would have byes to-morrow. But their match with one another has been brought forward from a series which appeared later in the draw, and which cannot be reached now. So they will play tomorrow. On the following Saturday (August 26) will be played the match which is expected to decide the resting-place of the premiership—the match between Merivale A and Marists. These teams now occupy first and second places on the championship ladder, with only half a point separating them. Their game will be the principal attraction at the "benefit" for fhe" widow and family of the late Mr L. G. Corbett. The primary schools' seven-a-side tourney, which had to be postponed recently on account of bad weather, is also set down for the Corbett benefit. It is to start in the morning and finish before the -time for deciding the first grade championship match.