ATHLETIC SPORTS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1221, 1 September 1911, Page 8

ATHLETIC SPORTS.

— «— RUGBY FOOTBALL. SHIPPING MATCH. . TEAMS FOR TO-MORROW. To-morrow afternoon t'o shipping clerks .employed b.v the various firms in Wellington will again forget all about "Please receives," consignment notes, and bills of lading, and, accompanied by their friends, journey to Seatoun Park for a day s onting. _ The. Union Company's tug Terawhiti will leavo the wharf, in front of the Customs house, at 2.15 p.m. sharp, and, on arrival at the seaside resort, tho chosen'fifteen of the Union Company will try to wrest the shield from a team picked from tho staffs of tho various shipping offices in Wellington. In the evening a dinner will be held at the Hotel Windsor, the function commencing at 7.15 p.m. sharp. Following arc the teams:— Union Company.—P. Ofr, A. Patterson, L. W. Gilbert. J. Young, G. L. JJcken, J._ Simou, .r. R. Leys, S. Pickering, W. Wright, J. Murphy, C'. Fennel!. J. Laing, E. Toulson, J). Smith, M. Bender. Combined Shipping Companies.—Aslicuden, M'l.ean, Oowles, Beuuie, Miller, Drake, l'ecke, M'Kwau, Crawford, Dinnie, M'Lcan, Barnes, Weatherall. LIFE INSURANCE MATCH. , ■A team from the Government Life Insurance Department met a team from tho combined: Life Insurance Offices in a Rugby match at the Athletic Park 'yesterday. The match resulted in a win for tho combined team by 13 points to 3. For the winuers Macbeth, Wilson, and Turner scored tries, and Chant nnd Bridge converted one each. Sturrock scored the try for the defeated team. OTAGO REPRESENTATIVES. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Oamaru, August 31. The Rugby match Otago v. North Otago was played to-day in fine weather, when the loca linen suffered defeat by 3D points to T. Tho match was very one-sided, the visitors being too strong for tho locals in all departments of tho game.