THE ASSOCIATION GAME.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13636, 15 April 1908, Page 5

THE ASSOCIATION GAME.

A* meeting in connection' with the New Plymouth Association Football Club was held last night. Arrangements for the approaching season, weflta made. It was resolved to enter one senior team for the cup fixtures, aiißj if possible, to run junior teams to en£ courage the' Association game among juniors. A management committee was formed consisting of Messrs CaVeV Quncan, Archer, Willis, and Smart. It was resolved to purchase goal nets and a new flagstaff. Owing to many "soccer" players her ing unable to get away from their work on Thursday afternoons, it was decided to form a Saturday team. A match has been arranged for Easter Monday to be played -pe-tfteejOXFaK wera and New Plymouth, at New Plymouth.

Mr D. George has been' appointed' captain of the Clifton .seniors.. ; '♦ „''■ A number of footballers in the Bell Block district are anxious.ta have •«.- third team, drawn exclusively fr'6m their locality, to j>lay under the aus-% pices of the QUf ton,, football Club. The^ committee has met "on two occasions to; discuss, the pr^oposajjs, and cannQt agfree to the conditions submitted. -

t A match has been arranged to takfr ? place between the Clifton seniors .and f all-comers on Friday next at Waitaria. :The club will be represented as follows: — Full-back, W. Lash; threequarters, H. Seholefield, Egglestoß^ Gomer; five-eighth, D. George; half, S. George; wings, .^Kagrd^as^^McAlpine; forwards, Cain, Davidson,* Ores&well, Loveridge, Pukere, Bodley, and Cunningham. The all-comers^JieamJuß as follows : — FuTEback"? -JJWEika^ vKol^equarters, S. Jones, H. Bond. P. .SJjelr ton; five-eighth; E.^'^Sa^j^nVlialf; Eckhold; wings, Paltridge, H. Pxirdie; forwards, E. Andrews, N. Stringer, J. McKenzie, C. Sa&npson, W. Dernehel, D. Andre\vs, and Creed. « l

The prospect of Rugby football in Australia for the coming season appears to be particularly good. ' Mr. G. 13. Booth, of the "All Black" team, when speaking to a gathering of footballers in Sydney last week, expressed himself surprised at the considerable amount of interest taken. <in,; football all over _the State. There ate many inducements for good players 'this- season". Two teams — one amateur and the othej professional — are to leave ■ for England at the close of the season, and two New Zealand teams are play a series of matches in New South' yTales. These fixtures added ttk.' the visit, of th© English amvttenf tfeamfandh inter-State contests are calculated* to give jan impetus^ tp the^aiifcr. &-<•>,- The Sydney Daily Telegraph is of "opinion that, the pTof essiohal movement would not receive much ' support this season at any £ate. \D\iring his /stay) iijTAus-, tralia Mr Booth lia& delivered several lectures to football players on health matters and the general rules of training and good living. He 'particularly condejrined excesses ot6 -all .kinds, ; especially in cigarette smoking. In viow of the roturn of the moneymakers, here is an apposite paragraph from the Athletic News:— "The bal-ance-sheet of the New Zealand 'All Blacks,' which was adopted by the joint committees after being , audited by a professional accountant at the end of the tour, would no doub£ be interesting reading, but the particulars are for 'private circulation' only. Wei shall not, however, be very wide of ttiej mark when wo say that the tour has l resulted in the colonials receiving a sum but little short of £10,000, andthat tho Northern Union clubs inter-, ested have received £5000, but out of which sum they (the N.U. clubs) have had to pay all the expenses of their respective matches. As the union only| guaranteed their visitors a sum of £3000 for the trip, the joint meeting was naturally ono for congratulatory speeches. As the tour was conducted on socialistic principles of share wad share alike, TurtiH, the full-back, wlio has played in thirty-four games, receives neither more nor. less, than Watkins, the forward, whose injury an the practice games has prevented him taking part in even one match during tho tour." Tho following will represent Tukftpa juniors in the match against the seniors on Fnday:— Bullott. Webster, Shields, Julian. 'Standring, Finn, Bnllbtt, Jones, Glynes, Perry, Coker, Sturmey, MacAl'him; MbNatty, McGiven, Hall, Dive, Charteris.