FOOTBALL

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 634, 11 October 1909, Page 4

FOOTBALL

THE ASSOCIATION GAME. ' •:..; ■..•.--. charity cur' . ; ■:■_ SWirrsV AGAIN, VICTOBIOUS. . The last big Association match of thp season was played at Miramsr on Saturday, under perfect weather conditiops, whep Swifts, the uinie,rs,■ of.the; senior league, championship, and T.M.C.A., the l r.unhcrs-up in-that, competition, in. the final for the Charity Cup. lA considerable , number of spectators made the journey to Mirnmar to witness the match, and they: we rewarded by a fasti .interesting, and evenly-contested game, the result of which hung in the balance until a fen seconds before the call'of time. : Excitement ran high from the kick-off, the supporters of tho respective sides urging the combatants on with great enthusiasm. At half-timo honours were even, eijch team having scored one goal. Before-tho second epell-had ■:been in progress Tory long, tho scores rose to two all, and, from/ this on,' play was fast and ■ furioue. Y M.C.A., who had several juniors in their a merry pace, and, on several: occasions,; it looked as though they mast pierce the dofenco of'the Swifts ben, but this was not.to be. With only'about,a.minute, to go, the ball was piloted down to tfa Swifts' rigntwinj, .jsrherß" Ksrschberg ..jobtained and centred beautifully, enabling Sparrow to put the , leather through, the ball jnst grazing the posts, out of the reach- of the alert YM.C.A. goal-keepor. Swifts 3, Y.M.C.A. 2. Marshall, Scott, and Sparrow scored for Swifts, and Kingwell and W. Gibson for Y.M.C.A, Mr. W. Wood was ' referee/ .■ . . • ~. • Tie final for the junior league third. A' division championship was played nt Miramar between Marist Brothers A and Y.M.C.A., the result being a win for Marist by'one to nil, Mr ■ A; Ncwbold. was,referee. ,' • i

THE WINNMtS ENTERTAINED Tho Swifts team, winners of the senior league nret division competition, and aUo the Charity Cup were entertained at dinner at tho Hotel Windsor on Saturday evening by llr i? L , Salmon Besides the team, and a number of old Swifts players, there were also' present the chairman (Mr H N Holmes), and members of the Management Committee of tho Wellington iootboll Association, antf Mos-irs J J Koberts, ind W Wood A num. , her of toaals were honoured, snd 6ome interI esting speeches were made dnnng tho evening. I Replying to the toast of the futuro prospects of the Association game m Now Zealand, Mr.' v J I 1?,?"'? stated that thc f° were at present' about 154 clubs in tho Dominion, Wellington with 64 trams being probably thn strongest centre Unfortunately the New Zealand Coun-i cil had had to give up the idea of a visit' from a booth African team this year, but the matter would come up for consideration again' neit season If a. visit from a New South \Y\les tc-ira was arranged for next season, the council wonld havo a better idea as to nhefter it could finance an African tour Mr Robert* anhcipites tint a faoiitli African tour would be followed by a visit from an English team,: and from tho time of such a visit ho waß eanguino that the delation game would rise 100 per cont in populnnty Tho gums had undoubtedly gone ahcid a great deal locally, and he was of opinion that the da; was coming when "soccer , would bo Uio gamo of New Zealand Referring to the paymont of Players, Mr Roberts trusted that when th™ time came for the New Zealand Council to consider this Question, they would look upon it in tho same broad way ns tho English 4swcintion did, and -=ay to players who wanted payment, and were worthy of it "If you nant I will mako rules for you" If « man hid special njnhty, he should be paid for it if he wasi drawing the monoy at the gitcs no held that tho moiiar,JD»do ly sport should go but tho liatCß, then to tho improvement of the Krounds and the comfort of the spectators; He did not belioro in tho money bcinij hoarded I "P. in , a , "In my opinion," said Mr, Koberts, the l»ofe«'jonal plnjer is a gentle* man. and he thought that any man who had hiet of the , professionals *ould ngroo with him. He did not mo any rev=on why tho <ima. Dv U, id U P rof «vonal should not play sido J S m"V , S a , T , en ">R.Plantations were madb to Mr 1) Scott captnm nf tho senior team,' for the VtiJxht, badl l»d hw men and to Mr » & w± B r^ cmbcr of tho fMB - Mniicnl items ncro m\ en hy Mpwrs I) 1 Twohl 1, B Jacob«. V ir b Grave? Sauffi j" L i 'T? nd r U Mayc,r ' nncl "citetions were'--given by Dγ I-aacs, ind Ifr Kerschbcrg

NORTHERN UNION ffULES

.; ;' OTLLIN.GTPN,.22;, AUCKLAND; 49. • .■: "l?y. T«lcßr*Dh-Prejs -AMeoikiloni" ' : ' -pi.' a W iTrr ,i. : sAuMaml, October 9. . Xhe. Auckland-Wellington representative footoali.niatch, under Worthorn DnlOh'.niles, which was -played hero to,day, t'i crowd'of nearly WOO "people. Theweathdf was perfect in the flrdmary sense, but not so for football, tho day 'being hot, ,with brilliant• sunshine, and wk'iI 1 j U Tit ""."wsnil sight to'see a football crowd clothed in. summer atHre. The match; was: interesting beyond the average, be"}S fulUrincttlents, arid of exciting, and rapid T W ""-".'"effn. eventually, won by ■ l-rlffi i 3), ° h Mma - 9 ro « s ' and Barber, wJiilo.the last-named converted one try. Jackson alecl kicked a goa ..from a mark. For Auck. and Seagar (2), K. Wynyard. Dunning, and v£+ i A\* to} w"n?'? , were convorted by W. Tyler, and Woodward.': The Auckland team, included the .Maori Papakura, andropae" Asher./The latter'a bumping hurdling powers,created considerable exnte,