FOOTBALL.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16821, 29 May 1919, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

Another stage of the Rugby Union competitions will be played to-day. Senior matches will be played at Temuka and Geraldine, and games in ■nil grades will be played in. Timaru. TJi© principal game at , tho Athletic Grounds will-bo Zingari v. Old Boys, and two other interesting fixtures are also to be played there. With the return of soldiers the teams are making good progress towards pre-war strength, and a good season appears assured.

During tho "carry-on" period of the war, the High School team entered the "senior" competition, and' for three' seasons was -the most popular fifteen in the district. A tentative entry was made in the top grade this year, but now that the senior clubs have regained much of their former strength, and the boys would be at a tremendous disadvantage in weight and age, it- has wisely been decided to withdraw the School team from the seniorsliip, and their first fifteen will this season take part in the contest for tho junior flag, which will still leave them a- grade higher than they ever played in prior to the war. The annual seveh-'a-side tournament, which has now been a- feature of the football year in South Canterbury for about a quarter, of a centurv,- will be played on Tuesday next, 3rd June. This year the old first, second, and third grades have; been reverted to, with the addition of one grade for primary schools. Forty-six entries have been received, and as it will be impossible to get all the games off on the Caledonian Ground in one day, a number of the eliminatine: contest's in the morning bnve been arranged for Anzac Parle, Craigie Avenue. The Timaru tournament has always provided the fullest day's Riighy in the Dominion, and again this vear a, record entrv. Wl n .-ensure the most enthusiastic Rugbeian full valley for his money