FOOTBALL

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160739, 27 August 1920, Page 11

FOOTBALL

The following players will represent Railway in their annual match against Post and Telegraph, to be played on the Rec. at II 15 p.m. on Friday:—Rose, Chappell, Munro, Brookie, Ahern, Lnhrs, Reynolds, Grace, Martin, Telberi, Waterhouse, Prott, Brownlee, Ritchie, Armstrong. Horne, McMasters, and O’Shannessy. ASSOCIATION. In view of our game with Wellington on the 4th September, the Heps, will be opposed to a very strong team picked amongst the Rest. Rost;—Thomas, Carter, Bleaedale, Campbell, Hampton, Litt, Bates, McDougall, G. Beckett, Woodhara, Svmonds. Reps.;—Hyder, Healey, Murray, Harrison, Mitchell, Barker, Cooper, Walker, Ritson, E. Beckett, Low. All soccer players are requested to roil up and give the Rep. team a hard game before they go to Wellington in search of the Brown shield. Kick-off 3 p.m. sharp. THE FOOTBALL FIASCO. To the Editor. Sir, —Bravo, Mr Eeditor, for your outspoken remarks ou the football situation. AVanganui ladies worked hard lately and people gave generously to provide funds to send a representative team to the South Island. This jaunt is going to cost ,£4OO or £SOO, and looking at it from a business point of view —not giving a few AVanganui players a trip—we should get the best we can for the expenditure. The country players would have made the team, and yet, because they studied their employers' interests on Saturday, they are bumped out of the team. AA’hy AVanganui oould not have made the Palmerston match one of the southern tour nobody understands excepting the AVanganui Rugby Union, the business acumen of which is at a very low standard. If Rumour speaks correctly, and I believe it dees, the Union did not even provide for Saturday’s game until Saturday morning, when a telegram cam© through from Marion that the team which got away by the 7 train, was minus four or five men. Then a scour had to be made round in a motor-car and sufficient players gathered up and sent on to Palmerston to bring the team up to strength so far as numbers were concerned. Does not this incident alone indicate absolutely rotten management? The Union knew all the week that the Taihape men were not going, so that they did not get ’a surprise packet at Marton. I think all lovers of football and fair play will regret that AVanganui were so short-sighted as to demand that players should give them first consideration instead of their employers. It savours of Czardom. AVanganui Rugby Union do not keep and support players, and I think it is a tribute to the manliness of the Taihape men that in these days they should give some little consideration to the bosses. In the meantime accept congratulations for your timely article last night.—l am, etc., FAIR PLAY.