RUGBY AT CARDIFF

Taranaki Daily News, 22 March 1935, Page 13

RUGBY AT CARDIFF

CLUB’S ANNUAL MEETING. GOOD PLAYING SEASON. A satisfactory credit balance and a good playing season with a third grade team fielded as well as a first junior were the chief factors in the past year of the Cardiff Rugby Union Football Club. The annual meeting of the club was held on Wednesday night, when the presidem, Mr. H. B. Limmer, presided over an attendance of 25. “The club has a fair credit balance when it is taken into consideration that last season the club had an extra team to travel and bought proper goal posts, while keeping the subscriptions as low as it was possible to make them,” the chairman stated in his annual report. A third grade team was fielded as well as a first junior and credit was due to the third grade players for the keenness displayed and the type of football played during the .season. Had it been possible to keep the team together this season more would have been heard of it. as there were a number of players showing great promise. The junior team was about the most unlucky team in the division as the season was one small misfortune after another. With luck a little more its way the team would have been more in the picture at the end of the season. The annual ball, he considered, was the most popular fixture of the season at Cardiff. “The members played good clean football which in these days when there is so much talk of cheating and unorthodox play is something to be proud of,” Mr. Limmer said. He complimented Mr. J. Neal for winning the Cardiff cup for the fittest player, also the secretary, coach and selectors for their good work. The club could certainly congratulate itself on showing a credit balance despite the purchase of equipment and the fact that the club had the lowest subscriptions of any of the clubs in the division, Mr. P. Horn said. He referred to the central junior representative match that was arranged with the western division at Okatd. The team was ready to leave Stratford, he said, when snow intervened, but instead of making another date for the match the Taranaki Rugby Union fixed a matsh between the western division and the Tainui sub-union. The match should have been played as arranged. The election of officers resulted: President, Mr. H. B. Limmer; vice-presidents, Messrs. P. Horn, E. Cameron and A. Harris; secretary and treasurer, Mr. L. Redshaw; club captain, Mr. R. Smith; committee, Messrs. A. Shannon and R. Huckstep in addition to the ex-officio members; delegate to central executive, Mr. P. Horn. Subscriptions were fixed at the same as last year.