NORTHERN LEAGUE.

Colonist, Volume LIi, Issue 12804, 27 May 1910, Page 1

NORTHERN LEAGUE.

A meeting of the Rugby League was :ield on Wednesday evening, when a .ong discussion took place regarding '.jJayers taking part in both- Rugby Jnion and -League matches,and it was decided to communicate with the .Nelson Rugby Union on the matter. It ,ras also decided that no nomination as representatives in the English match be received from Golden liay -irtex* Alav &ls"fc_ 'J?lie colours chosen ior tlic jScdson representative team ij^ajust tlic Jjlnglislijiion were red and | olatif.. It was resolved to present all ; the Engliaii match with a,mcclaf\</ I cho occasion. Negotiations ar« hv-g*^ ! ijrt'ss for a team to visit Auckland af--1 cer the English tour. The following are the teams for th< [first League match,- to by played ai f Victory Square, i'lay eomniences al \i p.m. sharp: — Alhambra : E. Karsten, S. Pike, Oakley, R. Haase, Karsten, Hayes, I. Hannigan, Kitching. Henry, Mansson, Bianchi, Galland. 'ivaitoa: Wilson, Kincaid, A. Pike ; Jullinan, Clark, Aytlon, Kirton. James (2), Longworth, Milroy, H. Pike, Fisher. " The result of the decision of the ctugby League* to communicate with die .Nelson Rugby Union on the matter of players participating in. both Union ami League games will be awaitkl with interest. Players who have •peen practising and playing Northern [Jinon football on several occasions this season have been, it is alleged, : 'talked over" by members of Rugby dubs into participating, "just once more," in amateur llugby. The qucs ; don cannot bo side-steppcul much longer by the Rugby Union, which" allows clubs to sti]J play professed Northern Union converts. Last season every player of. Northern Union football was promptly disqualified, while this season this has ■lot been done. At a meeting of tho New Zealand Rugby League, held at Auckland Jast week," Mr A. K. Baxter, of Nelson, was chosen as one of the selectors of the New Zealand team to pla_y against the Bi-iti«bi'l'<S.