FOOTBALL.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 604, 4 September 1909, Page 12

FOOTBALL.

"' ' , RUQBY. (13; AKiSTonOLDs ) ' The "gate," for the' Auckland-Wellington match was bigger than that for 'tho N intcrlsland contest, and constitute a local record for this , 'It is understood that a Northern Union tcjun from Australia will play at Auckland on October & and , If possible a match v srill b<? arranged here. ' ■ A Downes, Otago's wcll-Lnowu representa- " tive, cricketer, will referee f ,iu $ho Welling--1 ' ton.iOtago football match next Saturday. - ' Mr. J. R. Burt, welltknown in athletio circles in Qtagp as 'a_ representative fooV 1 balier and cricketer, has assumed tho manl agement of the' local branch business ot Qlegsrs A. and T.. Burt (Ltd). t ' The Canterbury team , (which meets (Wel- ' ' lmgton to-day), is considered to bo tho nnest that has represented, that piovinco

' v eince 1901) when tho representative team s toured the colony and returned unbeaten. ' < If it can, be got anay intact to Auckland t , a challenge will be sent for a Ranfurly shield match some time this month. l , Exoorpt from a. criticism in tho Auckland > "Star" on tho Wellington-Auckland match. "Two prominent Auckland forwards were \ palpably shirking their work in the first spell, but a few > homo truths from the i selector during the interval had a wonderful ' i effect, and they livened up wonderfully m , the second half." And it wouldn't bo hard to. locate ihelnl ' . (' H. D. Thomson v the- "All r Black" wing ' ' _ three-quarter, who was,marued hero on 1 , ' August 12, spent honcjmoon at Auck- I fona. "Mona? , has tho distinction of hav-

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