MERELY BANK GOSSIP.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1782, 21 June 1913, Page 12

MERELY BANK GOSSIP.

CLUB NOTES AND CHANGES. A three-quarter liner-that is what the Wellington Football Club is looking for. With Grace in Sydney and Lambert in Auckland, Mr. 0. G.. Keinber, who. looks after the welfare of the senior is "hard put to it" to fill the vacancies. The Yellow and Black forwards are a capital lot, and it is hard line on the old club that it should be unable to find the required backs. t , At the present time it is not quite certain whother the New Zealand touring team will leave Wellington for San Franoisco in September or in October.lf it is finally decided that the team should catch the September steamer, it will provide bigger opportunity for- New Zealand footballers to gain high representative honours. The Australian Eiigby team will be in the Dominion in September and the first test match is set down for decision at Wellington on September G The team for America will probably be pitted against Australia on thatoMasiau, but it would then leave for San Francisco and the second test at Dunedin. on September 13, and the final tesrt at Christohurch on September 20, would see a.i entirely different New Zealand team doinpf battle against the visitors. Who is .the one? Writing in the "Otago Witness" this week "Full-back says: "The Teal weakness in the Otago team this season is the lack of a fast and clever outside five-eighths. B. Black wa3 the man, but now that the Prate player has retired there is no ono to fill the position adequately. I believe Harris would have made a good five-eighths, &s he proved when ho played in the position last season. but as tho University man is almost certain to be selected as wing three-quar-ter tho selectors must look _ elsewhere. The most likely team to furnish an outside five-eighths is Zingari, and I have in mind that Eussetl is the player. "Ned" Perry, the one-armed member of Oriental senior fifteen, met with an accident when playing against Wellington on Saturday last, which has compelled him to retire from the game. Ned, who is very popular amongst all Rngby Play* ers is 'at any time much handicapped by the loss of his right arm, and in breaking ono of his ribs last Saturday he has definitely decided to disrobo the magpies'" colours. It is quite probable, according to his own statement,, that he will act as coach for St. Patrick s College team. Incidentally, he mentioned that he had had an offer to take on the game of "soccer." Ho resisted tho temptation. The vacancy now caused in the forward ranks will probably be filled by Harry Paton,' who is reckoned on as a , capablo man for tho position.