ASSOCIATION NOTES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10536, 10 August 1912, Page 6

ASSOCIATION NOTES.

(By GOALKEEPER.)

The same old story remains to bo told again this week, as after three clays of fine weather Saturday turned out one of the worst days experienced this soason, and all play was off once more. Such a state of things is much to be regretted, as there is still a lot of work to be done before the ■winter closes.

Hard linos, Y.M.C.A. I Your endeavour to reach Burnham last Saturday was deserving of better success than was rooted out to it. Better luck next time.

Regarding the Sunnyside-Porirua Mental Hospitals match, the Wellington "Post" remarks as follows:—"The feature of a hard game, despite the mud, was the fine defence put up by tho sturdy midget back, W. Wardell and the fine play of Rogers and Porter in the forward line and Shortall at half-back." The Sunnysido team is considered to be well up to the average of the Wellington League teams. An old Wanganui resident, now residing in Christchurch, informed me that the following team has been selected to represent Wanganui against Canterbury in the coming Brown Shield match at the Show Grounds on August 24:—Goal, Beckett; backs, Mitchell and Hoddle; halves, Robson and Campbell;' forwards, Cooper, Healey. Lowe, Gillison and Cameron. My informant, who is reckoned to be a very keen judge of form, tells me that the team is a very strong one, and will give a good account of itself. Beckett he considers to be in a class by himself as a goalkeeper in New Zealand, so visitors to the Show Grounds on August 24 should be in for a treat.

The following pointed remark is culled from the "New Zealand Times" : "There is a time coming, unless tho wiseacres assert themselves, when the New Zealand Council will become nothing less than a subsidiary "Wellington Football Association. Delegates need not have a slanted vision, but there is a tendenoy by the weakness of poor human nature _ to let their opinions overlap in discriminating between parochial and general obligations.''