GRAMMAR OLD BOYS' RECORD PERCENTAGE IN SOUTHLAND SHIELD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 217, 12 September 1940, Page 22

GRAMMAR OLD BOYS' RECORD PERCENTAGE IN SOUTHLAND SHIELD.

Stating that the performance was a magnificent one, Mr. A. A. Bakef, chairman of the Auckland, Rugby Football Union, last night congratulated the Grammar Schools Old Boye' Club on winning the Southland Shield for the season, with the record percentage of 96.25. Presented by the Southland Amateur Sports Trust lor the furtherance of junior football In Auckland the Southland Challenge Shield is for competition annually among the Junior fifteens of clubs having not less than three junior teams playing continuously in the competitions. Points awarded are 10 for win. 5 for draw, while a deduction of 5 points is made lor a default. Although Suburbs was unplaced In 1938, that c ', ul Lx Won the shl eW in 1939 with a percentage of 89 09. Then came Grammar Old Boys 87.75 J and Technical Old Boys 74.46. Petrol Restrictions. The recent pronouncement of the No. 1 Licensing Authority on the subject of country trips i by football teams was referred to when applications were received, through the junior management board, for permission for lower grade club teams to fulfil engagements at Te Aroha Tauranga. Waiuku and Whangarel. Ar »na. The chairman said the union had been anxious all along to co-operate with the authorities in conserving benzine to the fullest extent possible and early In the season had requested clubs, when outside matches were being considered, to arrange to travel by train wherever possible. The matter was really outside the union's sphere AU , lt .^ ras asked to d 0 fa y cl "bs was to grant them permission to play outside matches, and how they got there was their own affair If they travelled by bus, and had a permit from the authorities, then there was nothing the union could do, other than reaffirm that it preferred clubs to travel by rail whenever possible The applications for permission to travel were The North Auckland Rugby Union wrote in reference to the case of A. Armitage, whose status as a bona flde resident of North Auckland, when "? J?J ayed for North Auckland against Auckland at Eden Park on August 17. had been called Into question The northern body stated that,-before Being selected Armitage had played four games for Ruawal seniors and one for the Northern rS^i°*.J? u S' U J? lon representatives. He had been appointed headmaster of the Maungaturoto High School and was now a permanent resident of that district. In playing him the North /.uckland Onion had acted In good faith. The letter was r©c el ve d. The Grammar Schools' Old Boys , Club wrote offering to undertake the liability for the supply pf photographs to the members of its winning teams this season, thus relieving the union of the expense in a difficult year. The chairman said this fine offer should be accepted In the spirit of co-operation In which it bad been made. A motion to that effect was carried.

Mr. L.. Meek reported that arrangements had been made (or the staging of schoolboys' seven-a-stde matches during the Intervals at Eden Park on the next two Saturdays. Toll •[ the Brave. Reference was made by Mr. Baker to fatalities among Auckland footballers serving In the Royal Air Force. Re said that L. Rasmussen and D. O. Rewa, whose deaths had been reported from overseas, were both members of the Grammar Old Boys fourth grade team last year. O. de Vere. the victim of a recent accident at New Plymouth aerodrome, had played this year for the champion North Shore intermediate team. A resolution of sympathy with the relatives of these players was carried.