FOOTBALL NOTES.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 13015, 30 June 1906, Page 3

FOOTBALL NOTES.

(By "Full-Back.")

The game Star and Timaru seniors waa liot the exhibition that one -would expect to see as far as the quality of :play>!wi&t- v Unless 'l'imaru adopt some formidable aftl' combined methods in attack they will not 'win another game this season. On the 'play Star was the better team and beat Timaru at their own game. Their performance was very sound and during the ganie 'their tactics improved. Bringing Burro 'from goal protector to f was a good move. The way the Stars broke play up, overwhelmed Timaru, and dribbled, was % treat to watch towards the end of the game. Star after first score, never once left .the result in doubt. Their constant attacking was an innovation for Timaru and sorely troubled them. Budd, Husband, and L'angrish did grand work while Bruce and Auld and Burns played excellently. I would advise Timaru to consign: some of their'seniors to the junior grade,-no matter what they substitute. The Marist Brothers' school, I learn, has withdrawn from the school competition. This is a pity. I should like to see them, as a school, playing in these games drawn for the schools, but I suppose they -find the rule to "which they objected, rather a stringent one to meet. Anyhow, I hope they will get over it. One spectator was warned for persistently encroaching on the forbidden area of the Athletic Grounds during the big game, but when the exhortation by the official was put into a shapely warning, that spectator gave no more troub'e. A word, to the small boys. 1 know'that school-boys love to watch a good game of Rugby, and also like to watch it closer than any other spectator. This was noticeable on Thursday, for every time that I saw an official atwork he had his hands placed on the shoulders of either a Waimataitai, Main, Marist or South "school" boy. It should not be the case, and it is very imprudent on the part of these particular individuals referred to, because they " get in. ,for> nothing " and I may mention for their benefit; and they can take it- ns a -warning from me, that the Union is sometimes a yery angry body, and it won't take much for them to make it a rule to debar small boys altogether or ask them to pay a sixpence at the gate. - Thursday's football apart from not resulting as was generally anticipated was- productive of a good deal more work for the Rugby Union. It is not for me to say whether tlie referee in the Temuka-Pirates (senior), game was right or whether the TemUka captain was wrong in his subsequent action after a referee's decision. . This is a question the merits of which will depend- on evidence and which will have- to be heard by the Union. It will, as far as I cna see, lead up to the question of distinguishing hard play from rough play, and it is quite like'y that the referee weighed these vague terms (unfortunately, so termed). Is a hard 'player a." - rough, player? T ask tile? Rugby,. Union todiscpss this question at its next, meeting for the behefit.-'aud further . satisfaction of theßeferees' Assor, ciation. . - - ' ' •- * : • * - '

Last Saturday- the Temuka school team came to Timaru and met the'.Main school team on the Athletic Ground* and won bv a try to nil- The game was fairly even antiMbe-last when the locals-had a little advantage in attack but were not good enough to actually score! •Mr.'E. Holderness was the referee and had a. busy hour but both sides classed him as> ooafcdf the best whistlemen." This game wasplayed S match and it is the first defeat the Main school has suffered this year. _Theoffidak who,controlled the line on Thursday m the senior game at the Athlethough their work was not very strenuous. Keeping *uch good order even thomrh Starwere winning. barli^ and wholesome bwrack at football matches, but inich remarks as "bung it in » (whiA • comparatively a mild outburst) are not al and d o not tend to promote the good spirit and friendliness which should game. The generality of spectators if they only knew'it, arf in! play, and it takes more than a SSSST* &a ? k wuld "** have been as unfortunate, as it -was iw,i,. P««d,.taoV charger ttSS^l!^ opponent. trintM? ♦«- I__ it ** - > ana m fact fereTlS **£ wßob Kame and the rVleree very. properly warned a few and or Jred spme off for *£££ on tbe one. hand and rouglTpl£ on £ S£ T&S™/^^ lßm » t tim* im Played the g»«» Ghib on Easter Saturday last in Tmart, » leading m the semor champion, stop m the southern town. There are senior clubs in that centre. It ST*!* J^T 1 that •* Easter time the Star (Timaru) dub also beat a Dunedin team.

The Otago representative team is to travel' this year, and -will play matches against Southland, Canterbury, Wellington, Manawatu and WanganoL The New South Wales Rugby Union Ms approved of the recommendation' of the Metropolitan Union in connection with the visit of an Auckland team, which will play Newtown on July- 7th, University on Julj 11th, and a match against a clubarranged preliminary to the New South Wales-Queensland match on July 14th. On Thursday great difficulty arose over the bad outline or touch-line, which was hardly discernible to a spectator (although they luckily knew their bounds). ,1 can understand why CLeary was not so good on Thursday at "finding the I™/' as he usually is. Of course h would be cheaper to leave it as it is. .

The secretary of the "Bed Rose Foat--1»U Club" will oblige "Full-back" by communicating with him. Recently & memo, was semV for insertion in this paper, but a* the above-mentioned dob, baa not been heard ofrpublidjv I..would be pleated to hear of.tb* crab's, success. <not seen any notices'" of .meetings,'"etc."," in connection with this club," but if the new club is to start I shall assist them in way-possible. It is pleading: to note that Mr W. J. Cotterin has decided to join the. Befereea r Association. -He undoubtedly'-will be of great assistance to the -Association both, on and off the field. '-■"-..

Tubb should run straight after centring a balL . /v,

I saw one-St«t>pan in the junior game deliberately "bjunip 'an. opponent the ball.'was abonfiUß-'yards, airayK- He v should have aVo^^t«i^^ f 'publisJj.-hiaTjiwne. .- ; "-'" ' -ji'- "'-iv;. .■.;"«j«ij*i "HowJS&tfifrt. referee?''.-wjfe;.a question I "thejunior game.: is welt' ; to. appeal, legitimately, - but the tone, and construction of the appeal must be considered. The com*

from.one particular player. It would have been more, gracious on the part of appellant to have used'"'sir.'" . The mob' of sheep which encroached on 'area l of the No. 2 > ground on Ttrtrtawday'' during the Star-Pirate.'junior were-seen' to be grazing; 2SSffe r ' Pirates' Should" not have allowed'this. 'But the referee had no control over the eheep, so it was well that Star protected them. The takings at senior games in Christchurch- are evidently not very large at present, the amount ( taken at the gates on Saturday last being only £2O 19s 9d.. Mr Edgar Wylie; secretary to the N.Z.R.U., had- decided to resign owing to the nature of his private business. The bulk of work to be done by the governing body's secretary is enormous, and it is now suggested that a salaried official will have to 'be procured. - The rate the work is increasing, they will probably find it better to pay a permanent on/. The Otago Rugby Union has been making a detailed enquiry, into the alleged misconduct "of "the - (Dunedin) team while in Christcburch on the- 4th inst. DDhbir inquiries'have occupied several meetings, but nothing" has been adduced to lead to the conviction of the team. A letter was received from the licensee of the hotel in which the disturbance wae said to have taken place, but it almosfc entirely exonerates the team. The referees for next Thursday are: Timaru I. v. Temuka, Mr J. Healen; Star •I.- v. Pirates, Mr Cdtterill; Timaru 11. v. Pirates 11., Mi - .'Glover; Star 11. v. Temuka, Mr Cuthbert; St&r HI. v. Zingari, Mr Johnstone; Pirates 111. v. Old Boys, Mr O'Callaghan; High School v. Timaru 111., Mr J. Thompson; Celtic v. Geraldine 11., Mr Willoughby.