FOOTBALL.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 483, 16 April 1909, Page 6

FOOTBALL.

RUGBY DISQUALIFICATIONS. (BY TELEGBU-E-PBESS ASSOCIATION.) Dunedln, April 15. Iho Otago Rugby Union vetoed a proposal from Southland inviting support in getting the New Zealand Union to reconsider tho case of tho footballers permanently disqualified for having played in a Northern Union game. ■ SEVEN-A-SIDE TOURNAMENT. It. seems years since a eoven-a-sido tournej was held in Wolhngton, but a sample of thi? /v Vn l*M d^ orl S °f " U6b / is to bo-witnessed a{ the. Athletic Park on Saturday next Twolv* ' senior -teams and eight teams- haro entered for tho,competition. Tho games' will commence with tho fifth-doss at 2 o'clock. At a quarter to throe the senior games will start, and be played through, to the semifinal,, after : whioh tho final of tho fifth-class will be playod. ' and then the,final of.the senior. Each eame : will take fifteen rmnutcE, and- the , only differ. ; ence in scoring: will be that a : force-down will count as ono point, against the team forced. Ino-object of the tournament is to provide funds for tho players' acoidont scheme. . '■ . ' ■ '•!'' - ■ ■ . ' , '■- ■■ , . ; ; ■. ASSOCIATIOJn ; GAME. . ; ' _The following team will represent tin : i T.M.C.A. against a team from, the e.S. Cork- • : thio on Saturday, on Mifamar Ground, No. 8 South-.-M'Kay, Mawby, WOkins, - Hughes, 1 Warne, Wilson, Scambury, Ward, M'Giriv Coate, and Lennoxi,referee, Mr. W. Wood. j As top-dressing operations, which are et pro- : 6ent.bein| carried out by.the Wellington Cric-' ! ket Association at the Basin Reserve, have noj s yet been competed, Association football fix< •- turcs on that playing ground to-morrow hav« " ' been cancelled. Club secretaries arc notified by ' the Committco of Management of Football Association that all ontrics for the various grade* must bo handed in to-day.