FOOTBALL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20126, 20 April 1928, Page 4

FOOTBALL

SEVEN-A-SIDE GAMES TO-MORROW’S ATTRACTION TION COMPETITION FOR THE BIJOU CUP The Wanganui Rugby Sub-Union’s 1928 season opens to-morrow on Spriggens Park with the annual seven-a-.shde tournament for the Bijou Cup. Seventeen teams have entered and the first games arc timed to start punctually at 1.30 p.m., the draw for the first round being as follows: Mari st B v. Technical College. Wanganui Old Boys B v. Marists A. Technical Old Boys A v County B. Aramoho v County A. Ratana B v Kaierau B Pirates A v katana A. Technical Old Boys B v. Wanganui, and Old Boys A. Kaierau A v Pirates B. Queen’s Park have a bye. All players are requested to assemble at Spriggens .Park and to oc punctual in arriving and being ready to take the field. Arrangements ior the tournament are in the hands of a sub-committee consisting of Messrs P. Wilson, R. Blennerhassett, and A. Pownall, and the co-operation of team captains and other club officials with this bod-y will greatly facilitate play and enable the issue to be decided with a minimum of delay.

TOURNAMENT RULES

STRICT OBSERVANCE NECESSARY The following rules in connection with to-day\s seven-a-side contest will be observed: — Two spells of seven minutes each. In event of a tie, play is to continue until a score or force down is recorded. Injured players cannot be replaced during the game in which such injury was received, and subsequent replacement is to be notified to the controlling committee, whose consent to replacement is necessary. Teams are urged to observe punctuality as non-observance may be deemed a forfeit. Each team is to provide a ball and team slip, the latter to be handed co the referee.

TEAMS FOR TO-MORROW

WANGANUI AND OLD BOYS CLUB The two teams to represent the above club in the seven-a-side games to-mor-row will be selected from the following:— Blythe, Carlson, Shaw, Marks, Ball, Murie, McCrae, Carter, Fulton, Udy, Weeks, Cairns, Roddick, Calcott, (Hawke, Friend. All the above players must be on the ground by 1.30 p.m. and other members must assemble for practice on the racecourse at 2.30. TECHNICAL OLD BOYS’ CLUB. The two Technical Old Boys seven-a-side teams for to-morrow will be selected from the following players who are requested to be changed and ready to take the field at 1.30 p.m. sharp:— Crichton, Ford, Stiver, P. Ambrose, Dowsctt, Allen, Webb, Ward, Wyllie, More, Stewart, Reid, Tabart, Barry, Waters, Dyke, White, Gilberd and Foster. PIRATE CLUB. The Pirate Club will enter two teams which will be selected from the. following players:—Bridges, James, Wakeling, Duncan, Monigatti, Persson, Williams, Wilson, A. Duncan, McMillan. Heald, Rusden, Nodwell, Tasker, McNeill, Yates and Fitches. A practice for the fourth grade members will be hold at Atkinson Park at 2 p.m. QUEEN’S PARK CLUB. The following will play for Queen’s Park in to-morrow’s seven-a-side contest:—Delves, Ditchfield, Maitland, Signal, Trott, Wilkinson, Higgle, Stuart, Thurlow, Graham and Mutimer. Queen’s Park thirds are requested to be at Atkinson Park to-morrow afternoon at 2.30 to play Aramoho thirds in a practice game. The following players are requested to attend: —Hayhow, Gurney, McLean, Smith, Morgan, Henley, Watson, Bell, Trask, Howard, Wakeling, Thrush, Osman, Cowie, Penn, Finch, Thompson, Agnew and Cate. Any player whose name has been omitted is also requested to attend. ARAMOHO CLUB. The Aramoho seven-a-side team will be as follows: —S. Holland, C. Harrison, A. Tonks, R. Beardmore, P. Buller, J. Ross, M. Campbell. Reserve, Cunningham. Players’ passes will be obtainable at Spriggens Park gate. Practice games for club players will take place as follows: Fourths v. Pirates, on Atkinson Park, at 1.45, the Aramoho team being, Tilsey, Mclnnis, Smith, Barnett, Rogers, Mutton, Campbell, Goddcn, Sleyer, Richdale, Titchbon, Morton, Benson, Laurence, Havill Oliver, Kirwin, Nixon, Garner and Halkett. All other members of the club including juniors and thirds (combined) play Queen’s Park on Atkinson Paik, at 2.45, everyone getting a game. KAIERAU CLUB. A team: Simpson, Leach, Coupland, Watts, G. Lockett, Johnstone and Coulston. Reserve: Jones. B team: Glengarry, Ihaia, Ormond, Hohaia, Byers, Brookes, and D. Ross. Reserve: Parkes. All grades will practice at 2 p.m. MARIST CLUB The greens will field the following two sides:— A team. —Darby, Murray, Vangioni, Coxon, H. Gallagher, L. Fromont and A. Cutelli. B team. —Barrowman, Currie, Koorey, Waller, F. Crotty, E. Fromont and Herd. Emergencies (for both teams): Chain ey and Cai rd. COUNTY CLUB. The County teams will be chosen from the following players; Thompson, Smith. Phillips, C.

Chapman, Tate, L. Stewart, Hohaia, Hannan, R. Simon, L. Chapman, Aitken, Raukawa, McGregor, B. Higgie, Connor, Flyger, W. Scott, Woon, Groshinkski, and Hunt.

TO BE SHELVED? MOASCAE AND VANCOUVER CUPS BUGBY UNION’S FRUITLESS EI’EOBTS [ Special "Chronic.’e” Service. ] WELLINGTON, April 19. The Moascur Cup, Which was won by the New Zealand Mounted Rilles in Egypt tnd presented to the New Zealand Rugby Union, seems doomed to Le forgotten. The lust efforts of the Management Committee of the Union to arrange suitable terms for a Moascar Cup competition among the secondary schools of the Dominion has failed, and it seems probable that at the annual meeting of the Union, early next month, there will bo a recommendation to let the cup contests drop.

A similar fate .seems like to attend the Vancouver Cup, presented to the returning All .Black team early in 1925 for competition among the primary schools of the Dominion.

The general opinion of the Secondary Schools Association is that the practice of playing matches for trophies is not to be encouraged. In its last attempt to keep the Moascar competition alive the New Zealand Rugby Union

suggested to the Secondary Schools Association that, as the various secondary schools of the country play friendly group matches, (for instance the annual tourney between Christ’s College, Wellington College and Wanganui Collegiate School) the Cup should bo allotted to one group each year, to be awarded to the win ning team and kept rotating round the Dominion in this manner. This suggestion has been refused and the contests for the Cup seem certain to cease. For the disposal of the Vancouver Cup a different system was devised. The primary schools were divided into two groups on the classification of the Education Department. The first group included l schools graded 5, 6 and 7 ami the second all schools below grade 5 (all the country schools). It was proposed to award the Vancouver Cup for competition among the first grade and the Union intended to donate a cup for the other grade. Those trophies were to be awarded' to the teams which nild produce the best playing record each season. A minimum number of matenes was to be set, but the games were to be ordinary school contests, and only teams which desired to be considered for the cups wore to send in their records.

This scheme, also, was put before the Association, but was not endorsed, and the fate of the Vancouver trophy is also in the balance. The Rugby Union recognises that it is not desiiable that ther c should be much travelling by school teams, but the scheme proposed was thought to have overcome the difficulty. It. in unlikely that any other satisfactory method of dealing with th e position can bo devised.

ANOTHER TOUR

INVITATION FROM NEW SOUTH WALES. AUSTRALIANS’ VISIT ARRANGED «• FOR AUGUST (A. & N.Z.) SYDNEY, April 19. Following a interview with Mr Hornig, the New South Wales Rugby Union Council has decided to issue an invitation to the New Zealand Council to send a team to New South Wales during the coming season. It was stated that New Zealand was anxious to send a team and the New South Wales Council decided to ask for the best team to be sent irrespective of race. The tentative pi-o-gramme provides for the team arrivin Sydney on June 16 ann departing on July 3. Three Saturday and three Wednesday games will be played, with one either at Newcastle or Melbourne. The New South Wales team for the Dominion will leave Sydney on August 17, and it will probably consist of twenty-six players with a manager and masseur.