ASSOCIATION.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1812, 26 July 1913, Page 12

ASSOCIATION.

(Br Centee-Haw.) t ERENNIAL SHIELD AGAIN. Wellington, Waterloo, and Cognate tors.Will Wellington hit Waterloo next Saturday? -Will Waterloo hit Wellington? If Waterloo does hit Wellington, will the present Wellington stand up to' the ordeal as gamely. ..as tho original Wellington (a duke, I believe) did to the original Waterloo in 1815? These are hard questions. There 'is no doubt in the writer's mind, however, that , the shield game against Canterbury will bo one of tho hardest which we have had to play. Canterbury lias; an excellent team, and if they can all get away—well; the odds' are that tho shield will go south on tho ferry boat which leaves for Lytteltoii on August 2, Canterbury's Veterans, Here are the names of the challengers, and what players we seo aniongst them! There is Fullarton, Ward,' and Bissett, men who know every inch of the game, and have upheld the honour of Canterbury on many occasions. Then thoro aro Norman, Scrivin and Tanner, three really good men who gave a rattliiiff showing against Wellington on June 3. Tuppie, the visitors' goalkeeper, must not be torgotten. On his last visit to Wellington he gave a capital exhibition of goalkeoping, especially in tho second spell. During the first half of tho game his backs crowded down on top of him, and did not give him' a chance to clear. It will bB remembered that it was stated that the team Canterbury sent up to play Wellington on Juno 3 was a scratch team. On the succeeding Saturday/ in these columns, '.. the following criticism'-ag-■ peared: "What was wanted" on Canterbury's side was a Fullarton or a Bissett— a general to keep the team together, and to make them play the game as it should have been, played." the team which is due here next Friday has its general—two of them, in fact—\Fullarton and Bissett. So Wellington, may "look out for squalls."

Canterbury Personnel. following is the Canterbury team:— Tuppie (Burnham), Cornish (Sydenham), M'l'arlane (Buniham), Baxter (Sydenham), JFullarton (Burnham), Scrivin (Y.M.C.A.), Ward (Sydenham), Bissett (Burn'ham), Norman (Sunnyside), Taylor and Tanner (Nomads); reserves, Grant (Nomads), Wardell (Sunnyside). Only four of the above, namely, Tuppie, Scrivin, Norman, and Tanner, were in Wellington with tho team which played here on June i). What of Wellington? When one starts out to think over the Wellington team he wonders (quite quickly) what the selectors aro going to do this afternoon to select the eleven. It is an easy,, matter to pick the back division, but What of the forward line ? Last week a. letter signed by "Old Vet" appeared in this column, and this.week the following ha9been received'from "Young Vet." He says:— "I have read very carefully the criticism of 'Old Vet' in last Saturday's pager, but although he is correct in some things, I cannot see reason in some of the things he writes, viz., his. 'ideal team.' Fancy putting Hughes as inside-left. In my opinion, Hughes should never have been placed in a representative team. Then, again, as to Vessey, I am afraid 'Old Vet , is right out there. Vessey ie suffering from the same complaint as Kickerby—'slowness.' Withington, as outside-right—Well! I I should think his display last week would have shown 'Old Vef that he wasn't the man. Outside-left, in the writer's opinion, the 'wee man' (as 'CentreHalt'" describes him), is the right man in the right place. Agreed that A. Lowe is a good man, but although ho has tho weight, he has not the clever trickiness of Barnett, but I think that A. Lowe, as inside-left, and Barnett, as outside-left, would make a capital wing. To concludo, I should like to givo you what I consider a good team:—Goal, Belhamie) backs. Cross'and Parsons; halves, Brownlee, Hoots, and Shaw; forwards, Aitchison, (or Carruthers), Philips, Gibson, Lowe, and Barnett.—l am, etc., "YOUNG VET." Will This Be It?

Judging by certain remarks one hears when meeting groups of "soccer" ehthusiasts talking together on a Saturday night, Wellington s team, (which the selectors aro to announce this evening) will not be very far from the following:—Goal, Belhamie; backs, Cross, Parsons; halves, Brownlee, Hoots, Shaw; forwards, Loadsman, Gibson, Vcssey, O'Shea, A. Lowe. Canterbury Juniors Play Hero. -It iB-pleasing to note that Canterbury is sending up a junior team to play Wellington I'ourt'b Division representatives. The Canterbury team is as follows:—Bowden, Eollo,-'Passe, Nichol, Claphain, Ken. Connor, M'C'ormack, Watson Jewell, Kolly, Spicer. The match will be played as a curtain-raiser to the big event. The juniors will not play on the ground directly opposite the grandstand, but on tho usual match ground ou the opposite sido of tho Basin. These visits of junior teams should be encouraged. Follow tho Band! When you hear a 'brass band playing in. tho streets this afternoon, and see quito a procession wending its way to the Basin Reserve, don't think that they will lead you to a circus, because you will bo disappointed. But if you, reader, should happen to follow on' to the Basin, you may have the luck to witness a capital "go" between Thistle and Brooklyn United. It is anticipated that this match will be the best that has been played this season. What makes it more worthy of attention is that it is a benefit match foria member of tho Brooklyn United Club, who had Iho misfortune to break his leg in a recent match.

There will be no charge for admission, but a collection will bo taken up on tho ground. It is expected that a large crowd will bo present, and they will see a match in which the "favourites" (Thistle) for the 1913 championship, will play tho youngest aud most dashing club in the competition. . . •