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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 235, 27 June 1908, Page 10

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■ - (By Cover-Point.) . Tho ivet .weather mado the Basin Reservo unlit to play 011, consequently there was no /match oil Saturday. However, a goodly number' of enthusiastic placers' turned up, and indulged in hard practico in St. Patrick's College grounds, kindly lent for the purposo. .They- had splendid practico against the ball' court. I would 1 recommend" nil members to chooso a'wall'or a side of a wall or house, ar.d throw "tho .Ball high up and catch it on the rebound. ; It is splendid for tho eye, and improves one's grip of' tho cros'se, and makes a player an expert catcher. ■■-. • Tho Association are sending two teams up . to; l'almerston North on Saturday,. July' 4, to play an opening curtain raiser before an important football miftch, under, the auspices- of . tho Manawatu- Football Association. It will do : a lot to make the . game known in, tho country, This week tho secretary has received inquiries from Daiinovirkc 'for sticks and balls, and from the tono of tho inquirers, there is every reason to; think that. a club will-bo started there; also, at Napier, where one'of our good players has settled. ..-.,7 Thero' is not much nromiso _of a team coming down from Auckland this season to try and' recover tho " ashes " .as they have trouble in getting;' a team •to go away. Iv :am . afraid when; they -see . our _ improved; play in. the combined Dominion team against •' a team! from tho ■ American Fleet,.. they will bo less inclined to send a team. ,Wo could put a much stronger twelve 'against: them than' tho team which beat theirs by 11 goals' to 4 last August. -