FOOTBALL.

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15445, 7 September 1914, Page 10

FOOTBALL.

OTAGO V. SOUTH .CANTERBURY". THURSDAY NEXT. The most important fixture of the season. .v> far as Canterbury is concerned. will take place oil Thursday next, when the Otago team meets South Canterbury on the Caledonian ground. The Otago team is particularly ii*i ng this year ami Thursday's match "s tilie first of their tour north, whieh the r supporters are confident will l esuit in the defeat of Taranaki and the transfer of the Ranfurlv Shield to Du'.ioiiin. The last meeting of the Otaeo and South Canterbury teams in . Tiniani resulted ;n a win for the locals, largely <iue to a brace of sensat'onal dropped '_ea ! s, me by T. Lynch and the other by 1"). Scott. Otago avenged their defeat a fov days :i;:o :n Dunecl'n. but the team which represented South Canterbury o>i that occasion will net be recognisable in the one to do battle on Tuursday next. / Those wlio witnessed the North OtasioSviiih Canterbury mnt'li two v.,ek, ago. will long remember the wonderful exh bition of Rugbv given bv Lynch, and with his fellow Alt Black Cockroft to assist him on Thursday next the battle of Rugby scants sin.tild 1)3 worth going a long ivav to witness. The Otago team will probably eonta:n six All Blacks. t ' SOUTH CANTERBURY V. OTAGO The following players have been selected to represent South Canterbury against Otago on Thursday next, at the Caledonian Ground :—B. Moore, T. Lynch, E. Cockroft, J. Harloy, G. Borrie. G. Coles. A. "Wilson, N. HaniIvn, T. Fitzgerald. D. Bain, T. Langford. J. Fitzgerald. B. Boyle. Reserves—Backs. l'\ McGrath, "W. Henry, H. Monson, H. Davis; forwards, "W. I'"itzgeral(l, AY. Moore, M. O'Connor. A car for Temuka players will leave the Post Office at 2 o'clock sharp.