THE N.Z. FOOTBALL TEAM

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1511, 19 December 1905, Page 2

THE N.Z. FOOTBALL TEAM

Regrettable Incidents BiliernesssAitionysltiin Players Diincari's Authority lynoiei! Two Players Resort to Fisticuffs By Telegraph —Prem Association. this day. Ii was tlrfinitely known in town on Saturday that lelatioos between oottain sections of tho New Zealand football team were very much strained, This can easily be gathoied from the contents of a number of lottoro receivptl by the last mail by friends of tho Oiaso membets. The trouble has apparency onsou out ef tho old eoro faolmg ovor tho appointment of i Daocan as couch The letters indicate [ thai, from the first Iho Auckland iminbote [ sotthpuibolvc up in shaip oppcMiion to ( Dunoan, and tnen to the Otago membeib , in gonpral A number of (mi udijig ] Stef.d) havo Bided with the Ancklan 1 con. j tingent, and tho general ratult has been that oveiv attempt by Duncan to aisert his aullion'y has boon met with opon hos tilily at meetings of tho toam, x and while ou tl o field ho his been simply ignored "Ho is jub6 .nobody'" is tho way ono writer

suras his position .tip. It has notbden possible trj confine the trouble to tho question betwoon Dunoan /and •'certain other Otago members bave been drawn into.it, and bo bitrorly that ibere is a rumour that a well-known Olhgo player applied argmnenlmn ad hminitm to one of the Ancklandors, and gavo him a good thrashing, Rightly or wrongly, the Otago membovs also believe that owing -'to. thi irifluonce.of the Northern opposition:they aro being kept out of matches to wh'ch their claims as players entitle them,! Sayi ono of them: " Nono ol in exoopi Casey, ii getting a heating tit all, and they wouli leave Stevo out too only they can't di without him, because ho's the bcstliookoi they've got." ,