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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1238, 21 September 1911, Page 2

ATHLETIC SPORTS. . — RUGBY FOOTBALL. THE LOCAL CONTROL MEETS. WAIRARAPA TROUBLE. Tho weekly meeting of the Manage-' ment Committee of 'ho Wellington Rugby Union was held last evening. There were present Messrs. S. S. Brown (chairman), K. 0. Jlalcf-, J. Burns, W. I''. Hornig, E. Little, AY. Perry, and W. Harilham. Ono challenge only, that from Oriental, was received for the Charity Cup. The match will therefore bo played between this tram and Athletic, tho champions, on Saturday next Permission was granted 'to tho rorirna firs!, fifteen to play a match against the I.iiiwood third fifteen, the winners of tho third-class championship this year in Christejhurcli. Tho match will be played 011 Saturday next. A long explanatory letler was received from the Wairarapa Union concerning their failure to send down their representatives to play against Wellington on Saturday last. It appears that they objected to play against a Wellington B team, and l.hey accordingly cancelled all arrangement l ;. Afterwards when they learned the personnel of tho team which they would have had to play, it' was too lji.te fo notify their players. As a matter of fact, as was explained, Wellington had arranged to send the best availablo team to .11 arlborough, but four only of the A team went. It was therefore virtually an A team which remained to meet Wairarapa. Tho secretary was instructed to write to the Wairarapa Union pointing out that their action had been hasty and unfair. Permission was granted for the playing of the animal match between past and present students of St. Patrick's Collcgo on the Athletic Park next Saturday as a curtain-raiser to the Charity Cup inatch. A player named Bailey, captain of the Oriental first-class team, appeared before the 'committee !o explain his action in playing a third-class player in the match against Petone. He admitted that he knew he must-loso the match if Petono protested, but ho was short of three men, and lie made use of this player, who was oil the line. Bailey was disqualified until after the second Saturday in June, 1912. The third-class player, Carmichael, was suspended until, lie should appear before tho union. • A similar incident occurred in a Southern v. Porirua third-class match earlier in the season, a junior player being included in the Southern team. It was dccided, oil tho motion of Mr. Perry, that the captain of the Southern team bo called upon to appear before the union and explain his action. THE REPRESENTATIVES. Tv;o inciters of the representative team selected to make the Southern'tour have notified the secretary of the union that they aro unable to make tho trip. These players aro Moffitt and Dent. O'Brien (Oriental) and • Cunningham (Athletic) have been invited to go in their places. The team will go south to-ii^ht. POLICE-PRESS MATCH. The following team has been selected to represent the polico against the press in a Rugby match on Saturday next:— ! Full-back, Andrews (Mount Cooi;); tlirea- . quarters, Prussing (Mount . Cook); • Schramm and Jones (Lainbton Quay), five- : eighths, Cummings (Quay), Taylor (Wellington South); half, Hall (Quay);' forwards, Stewart, Cnopef, Gallagher, Penson, Cullotty, and Belcher (Quay), Challis and Doyle (Mount C'oolc). Emergencies, Scott, Blake, Kelly, N'aughton, Canning, ' and Aiiglaud. , A WIN FOR CANTERBURY.' (By Tclegranh.—Press Association.! Invercargill, September 20. Tho nineteenth interprovincial football: contest between Southland arid Canterbury was played here to-day, and resulted in a win for Canterbury by 12 points to 9. ..11 i, The rain, which had fallen intermittently during tho past week, kept off until tho .opening of the second spell, . \vhen a light drizzlo commenced to .fall,, and. continued during tho rest of the game. Tho Southland side, which had been narrowly defeated by Taranaki and had gained victories over AYanganui and tho South Island teams, wero favourites. Tho attendance of the public reached about 2000. The Southland forwards did act show .the form expected of them in '■ first spell, 'while their backs showed indifferent tackling throughout. Canter- . liury's line-kicking was much nioro effective than that of their opponents, and was of great' assistanco to the visiting forwards. ••o first spoil ended in favour of the visitors by 9 points to 3. Guthrie anil Fitzgerald (2) scored for Canterbury in this half, while Martin kicked a penalty . ;oal for the locals. On opening tho filial spell tho local forwards put more dash into their work, and quickly had the visitors in difficulties. From a position inside his own twenty-five, Maxwell was penalised for offside play, snd Martain again coaled. Then Southland started the bc-s.t passing bout of the day, and the bal, after passin.? through all the backs' hands, was secured by M'JS'eoce, vjio dashed across at the corner. The Canterbury forwards now commenced to put more vim into their work, and ultimately got down to a good attacking uosition near the homo side's goal, where, from ruck play, Maxwell dived over and scored. The visitors maintained this lead until the end, as by good.use of the, lino they kept tho Southland forwards back, and tho game ended: Canterbury, 12 points; Southland, 9 points. Canterbury were slightly the better side on the day's play, and thovoughly de- . served' their win. Doell retired injured half-way through the final spell, and was replaced by .Maxwell, who earned applause at intervals by judicious line-kicking. Tho visitors' goal-kicking as a whole was very poor, as from four tries, not a single goal was registered. CRICKET. THE TEMPLARS CLUB. The sixth annual meeting of the Templars Cricket Club was held on Tuesday evening in tho Y.M.C.A. rooms. Mr. J. G. W. Aitkrn, and IrJer Mr. W. A. Allan (club captain), presided, and there was a good attendance of members. The report presented by the secretary (Mr. A. Dryden) was adopted. It gave n very complete summary of the past season in all aspects, the i;lub lx?ing runners;ip to the Catholic Young Men's Club for the third-class championship. Memtion was made of several records established • for the club, viz.—The number, of games played and runs scored, the wicket partnership' of 97, the feat of ,T. BJenkinsop in capturing: ten wickets in one innings for 27 runs, and also getting 98 wickets tor the season. Regret was expressed that this player was unable to complete his 100 wickets, as tho association had failed^to provide a ground for the second day's play of the last match. The batting average was won J>y E. Ryan with 19.70 runs per innings, and the bowling by J. Blenkinsnp with a record of IIS wickets far "39 runs, and an average of 7.51. The report also dealt with the so.cial gathering last May, when the trophies wero presented. The all-round improvement shown by members had been undoubtedly due to regular practice, and the coaching given fo some numbers by Mr. ,T. V. Saunders. The thanks of the- club wero due fo the president, vice-presidents, various friends for hearty active support and assistance during the season, and to the pros*. Tho statement of finances showed the club in a good position. Officers for the ensuing season wero elected as follow:—President, Mr. ,T. (!, W. Aitken (re-elected); vice-prcsidf-nts, Messrs. G. Petherick. I!. 11. Rigailsford, A. B. Thomson, W. Cowan,"E. A. Goodlier, W. Johnson. D. Gillies, F. M. B. Fisher, M.l'., 'J' Townsend, 11. Q. Bruce, 1). Hampton (all re-elected), G. Price, R. A. Wright, M.l'.; club captain, Mr. \V. A. Allan (re-elected for seventh year); lion, .secretary and treasurer, Mr. E. Ryan; delegate (o W.C.A., .Mr. A. Dryden; auditor!-, Messrs. Allan and Price (re-elected); Management Committee, Messrs. Brown, Wright, Crosswoll, Dooley, Lambert, and Sauverin; Selection Committee, Messrs. Sauverin, Allan, and team captain. I Several now members were elected, and I various matters relating to material and opening of the season were left Mo the Management Committee to arrange for.