FOOTBALL.
CANTERBURY RUGBY UNION. MEETING OF EXECUTIVE. Tiie executive committee of the Canterbury Rugby Union met last evening Present: Messrs A. Dey (chairman). S. F. Wilson. R. W. Britton. W. S. Seed. c - S. M’Cully, A. Duggan, J. K. Moloney, a: TTiiCyC Kortfl ' The Prebbleton section of the Halswell-Prebbleton Club advised that they had no intention of playing this season, and stated that some of their players were transferring to the Riecarton and Wharenui Clubs. The letter pointed out that it had been noted that the Halswell Club had been granpermission to use the combined It was decided to forward a copy of the letter to the Halswell Club, asking for their views. The secretary of the Hurunui Subunion forwarded a challenge to the gdlesmere Sub-union Cor the Delargey It. was agreed to send the challenge on. and to ask the Ellesmere Union it was decided that a request from the \v aikari Club for jerseys could not be The Christchurch Polo Club wrote agreeing to allow football clubs the use ot the pavilion at a rental of £lO for the season. The letter was referred to the finance that\th|y r hHd“a lU b>^ U on SatiJda^nexS team should make the journey C out' 1 to play a match. As Technical College and Old Boys were the only suitable teams with byes, it was left to the delegates of those clubs to endeavour to arrange the match. Reporting on behalf of the grounds committee, Mr M’Phail said that after consulting with the Domain Board they had found it impossible to have the training ground ploughed up this season. It was decided to try and procure another playing area on a site between the polo grounds and the present grounds at the Southern Cross corner of the South Park Mr Allard reintroduced the question regarding confusion at Canvas ter Pork on account of the similarity of tone of the whistles used by the three referees A motion by Mr Phillips that the union should procure three whistles of different tone for use at the park was Mr Seed suggested that the union should do something in the wav of organC ing Rugby m suburban bet riots such ns Papanui. Beckenham Sydenham. Spreydon, and others. Tbc/e were any number of old Rugby players who could possibly be prevailed upon to terjn th e" suggest £11 1 book,*"n .ntT’ bring C; ;;u‘‘ -v.;;; bed Zealand, h; i .Moloney oaid Co- visitors he mnuc appli ation I- r the u a- • a match. Sydnev \. Canterbury * College, and for Saturdav, May 30. for a lost match, Sydney v.*Xevv Zealand Cnivoi silt was decided to grant the use of the park on those dates, the University Council to have the whole of the net gate for the Wednesday match, and the Saturday match to lie divided on a uniUnion 40 per cent basis, after deducting ground and advertising charges. The question of the postponement of competition matches on the Saturday will be decided at a later meeting. It was agreed that the David Reapat'n Memorial Cup should be awarded
points In tlie third grade (under 20) l<> d be°scored ra j <Vr 1 The i-dea of presenting it for these pjades was to encourage the younger players. On the. suggestion of Mr Wilson, it was decided to write to the suburb m and country clubs, asking them t-> make connected with, the telephone for the displaying of a notice on wet Saturdays stating whether games were on or not. A good deal o£ discussion took place regarding the number of matches to oe played on the northern tour, and on the motion of Messrs Payne and W son it was decided to limit them to three, two of them to be Wellington and Auckland. The third was left to the delegates to arrange at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Union toPJXTURES FOR SAT QRDAI'. Following are teams, grounds and referees for Saturday:— Senior A —Merivale v. Varsity, Lancaster Park South (Mr id. G. Watkins) ; Linwood v. Christchurch, Lancaster Park Oval (Mr L. Guiney); Albion v. Old Boys, Lancaster Park West (Mr U. Rudkin); North Canterbury a bye. Senior B—Riccarton v. Varsity, Snow Grounds No. 2 (Mr C. M’Lachlan) ; Merivale v. Christchurch, Show Grounds No. 1 (Mr W. R. Patrick); Technical a Park '(Mr O.P. Fraser); kaiapoi v. Christchurch, Polo No. 1 (Mr K. Bmpson); Merivale v. Tramways, St Albans Park (Mr S. C. Murray). Second Grade (B Section)—Old Col-1-—ians v Teehnioal. Rim wood Park No. i (Mr A. C. Fuller); West Glu Boys v. Now Brighton, New Brighton (Mr J 3. Coder oft) ; Sydenham v. Rapaki, Sydenham Park Mr W. Varsity tair’ H.°Rollinson) ; Wliarenui v. St Andrew’s Old Boys, St Andrew’s College (Mr M. O. Sinclair): Old Boys A v. Christchurch A. Old Boys No. -o (Mt C. W. Allard): Merivale v. Kaiapoi A, Kaiapoi No. 1 (Mr Barnett) ; t .--..t .A.
V. St Bede’s, St Bede's (Mr T. Bain). Third Grade A (B Section)— ’Varsity <3 | v. Old Collegians.. Elmwood Baric (Mr P. [ C. Jones); Limvoud v. Halswell, P<f-o 1 No. 2 (Mr 15. U. Cross) ; Old Boys B v. Christchurch B. Christchurch N.P. Xo. ... ( S-o Se fTM7H CO CoS' Christchurch C v. West Old Boys. West Old Boys, South Park (Mr O. Rollinson) ; Sydenham v. Kaiapoi B, Kaiapoi Xo. 3 (Mr J. R. Murphy); Albion v. New Brighton, Polo No. 4 (Mr J. Gordon) Third Grade B (under twenty.)—-Lm-wood v. Boys’ High .School, Boys Higii School N.P. (Mr JO. E. Kuitrell) ; St Andrew’s v. Merivale B, St Andrew’s ColOpalva "a^ e No. n V H. No. s'(Mr H.* Walker) ; Mt-rl-vulo *A v. Varsity A. Merivale X.P. No. (■ O. Barrett); Technical v. Varsity B, Ensor’s Road (Mr L. Cade); Old fJo\s FuurUi tirade (A Sect ion)-—Technical v Old Roys A. Old Roys N.P. No. 27 (Mr W. Cowles); Roys’ High School v. nVrc MerivrUe A v. Albion, Polo Xo. 7 ( Mr A. Hooper). . Lin wood v. *Mcriva hi B^'Wearton No. *7 (Mr H. Opaw!r’ Park X o. "2 *( A! r'J .\ I!rads haw ?; j k aA A v. N Kai:mk! I*. Wesi-.ri *N.!.Mr A. Varsity X.P. No. 29 (Mr JCla rkson) ; Lancaster Park South, l.Ju (Mr •' B. Lancaster 'park \ v 't‘st._ ih^M'^nterh park Oval’.* 1.30 (Air k\ Harvey). ASSOCIATION GAME. :j i THE ENGLISH TEAM. : { By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright j Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. [ SYDNEY, April 29. | The English soccer team will reach \ Fremantle on May 5. After several | matches at Perth, Adelaide and Mel- : bourne they will play at Sydney . against a New South Wales team on [ May iiO. [ —■ ■ i.
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