FOOTBALL.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16883, 2 August 1919, Page 7

FOOTBALL.

RUGBY .UNION. -~J "The Management Committee of.ils S.C.R.U.. met last evening. Present-j Messrs J. O'Leary (president), YVi Drake, H. H. Eraser, S. H. Sullivan and A. H. Clemens thon. sec.). The Otago Union wrote regretting that- they could not play South Cante* buty this season. The Canterbury Union telegrapheq that owing to the railway curtail men} they were compelled to indefinitell postpone their southern tour. —It wa\ decided to offer Canterbury half th( net gate for a match on August 21si or other suitable date. Tile Geraldine Club wrote protesting against their third grade team bein| asked to travel to Timaru on two sua cessive Thursdays.—Reply to be sen} that the arrangement was unavoidafela^ The Geraldine Club also wrote ing that in a third grade match o* 24th July two spells of 35 minute* were agreed to, but spells of 50 mia way into society, and goes bacfaOS reply that the referee denied this, buj that a ten minutes stoppage in on< spell was not counted as playing tima> Is was resolved to write thanking Mr O. lusher, of Temuka, for acting as. referee in a game for which, iht appointed referee failed U> appear. ' The senior and third grade A compe* titions were •declared closed, Temuka and High School A respectively being the winners. It was decided that; a rep. mate!) be arranged between a team of South Canterbury returned soldiers and tin rest of South Canterbury, the selectoi to pick both teams, and the game iA be played at the Caledonian Groundl on August 14th. W. Buckley, Faiiiie, requested the Union to send a club team to plaj MacL-enzie County.—lt was decided tq make every effort to arrange the fixture. Jft was decided to play the TinaarnWairaki match on Thursday next at the Caledonian Grounds. °~ The New Zealand Union wrote that a special meeting would be held on Friday. 19th September, to consider an important letter from the English Union bearing on the proposals, to alter the laws.—To be considered at a later date. THE SCHOOLS GAME. The Otago High School and Christ's College teams arrived bv road yesterday, and will meet at the Caledonian Grounds at 2.30 to-day. The fifteens will be as published yesterdav, except that M. F. Macfarlane replaces E.. B. Wilson at five-eighths for College, thus reducing the average weight of the side to 10.11, against Otago's 10. Th« heavy rain of Thursday night did not affect the grounds so greatly a S was expected, and with a fine morning th» turf should be in good order Programmes showing the formation of the teams will be on sale at the ground. Ladies will be admitted to the grand stand without payment, and children at half price at the sates