FOOTBALL.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20184, 12 March 1931, Page 14

FOOTBALL.

/ RUGBY. CHRISTCHURCH CLUB. ANNUAL MEETING. The annual meeting of -the Christ church Football Club was held last night, Mr 0. S. McCully presiding over a good attendance. Tba annual report stated that the club had won the senior A competition, the Payne Trophy, and the junior 8 competition. The senior B and junior teams "wero ruoners-up ' in thjir respective competitions. The club secured third place in the Evans shield competition with i»3l points. - _.j i,_ ,u Representative honours were gamed by tne o. i. a.* L <»«•*. G. i\ Hart, J, E. Manchester, T. F. Mul- < &nu>son,B.T. Stewart, J. B. Taylor, and I * team—J. P. McAuliffe, A.. P ' —E. W. Arnold, I. J. Campbell, p. Cr. lioader. Junior—l). Loader. : "President's —J. Vincent. . , -rho sound financial position of the elttD had been maintained. Outstanding subscriptions were still a heavy item, and tho rommitteo trusted that its action m placing these in the hands of a collecting afcency would not again be warranted. The balanco-sheot showed a credit balance . £32 • 16a Bd. The assets amounted. to £5Ol 3s Bd. the liabilities being Oil. ■ The annual report and balance-sheet wore oc ;dcd to award the usual honorarium of £ls 15s to tho honorary secretary, and of £5 5s to the honorary treasurer. The election of officers resulted a 8 lows: Patron, Mr John Anderson; president Mr J. B. Evans; vice-presidents, Messrs C S. McOully, L. C. Matson, D. E. Millar, E. V. M. Phillips, P. D. Sargent, and A. 1. Hushes: club captain, Mr G. H._Frater, w • deputy-club captain, Mr A. 0. 0. Kobilliard; Son. secretary, Mr F. S. Taylor; assistant hon. secretary, >Mr E. A. Gasson; . hon, treasurer 1 I Mr H. L. Stephenson; assistant hon. treasurer, Mr T. F. Mullan; . management committee, Messrs J. K Manchester, A, I. Cottrell, E. Fraser, M. F. Pongelly, G. Hart, and K. A. Fulton; hon. solicitor, Mr J. «• Hampton; delegates to Canterbury Rugby Union, Messrs 0. 8. McCully, E. £ M. Phillips, L, 0. Matson, and A, I. Hughes, 'hon. auditors, Messrs B. M. Mcßae and E. regarding the holding of the "Mickey Seed" Cup was altered so that the trophy be engraved each season with the name of the most improved player m the ■ open grades below senior B. The ehairmaii offered to present the club -with an honours hoard to contain the names of. those club members who have for Now Zealand..His action was greeted •, Wi Jt to °P en th ® season on that the club should oppose 1 'the proposals of tho Linwood Club m re- - 1 card to alteriiig the constitution of the executive* of'the Canterbury Rugby Union, hut that--thn- delegates should have a free hand. "" was to hold , over the - question of appointing v coaches until after the annual meotins of delegate* to the Canterbury Bughy - • vmn.- • ; 1 ' *' Th« forty-nintk annual meeting of the SydVham Eocribxll. Club will "be held in the club rooms tonight. . ENGLISH RESULTS. (t*XJO» msn 4MOCUTIQW—« ItMDUO * * t k <tguiaßvupEr~eomu6iiT.i ' LONDON, Maxell 10. - '■■■ XI Soccer, in tha Scottish division, Par«u* heat, Cowdenbeath 4-1. 'V - Afc i. Northern* Union, OlSham beat flochJ u JJW. * " • • >aturoat night programme. i ?l the I wwl^ , » 1 - lWoadsidik> & recort '/« holder, who T>eat Vie Huxley's time, anc '.--therefore tho foremost exponent of dirt track racing in tho British Empire. H< V witt appear at MOnica Park Speedway oi , Saturday evening as one of the stara ir ,», splendid programme. Van Praag is thi ' idol of Australian and Hew Zealand speed ways, and. comas under special engagement '» Once .jn action van Praag'» engine is na] out all tho way, and patrons are promised M:--hig 'thrills. In- addition to the "I'lymj „./XttttcWjsn," Harold .Stevens and Cyril An ' k " ."deiifW,; 'the sensational Australian riders ' Ijwjar W«a j«etig«u;4U three will compete w hhwe\-al>eciaj tbiitcbi racea which wiU serve S', iitoS'ijWidwie 1 "flr«work». Beg.. Banhy, of WeJ and;3Sm of Dnnadin, wd >t taiUO'lsar rtiliiitf.' Thea-?«ey Lunn a*d Bmj J- ■ '"itfjte 'will "Ti^teJjJi,three "raw* for the coveted fe rams wa Lhckland), who Ilea jttat'oowld no -<jXI Tho;-tim.