RUGBY FOOTBALL.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2136, 30 April 1914, Page 3

RUGBY FOOTBALL.

,■ ■ BENEFIT MATCE. ■■■:;" The IV,tonC 4 Football Ch;b has boon granted permission, by'the Wellington Rugby Onion to play a benefit mntdi on "Saturday May 9, at IVtonc, the i profits from which will' go lownrds the payment of the mcdiol expenses of D. Boyd, who was seriously injured in the match against Ponsonby on Easter Saturday. Boyd was in the Public Hospital for snmo time, ami is now'in a private hospital. Ho lias undergone two operations. The Fp.lonc Oliib have decided to bear the costs connector] with the accident, and hope to raise a snostautial amount I>y 'pulling on a good match. .On the. day chosen for the match the senior enp matches will not bo pl-iycd on account of military vncainpnient arfan^ements. : AtJSTRAUAN'TOUK. Tiw itinerarv of Hie i\e»v Zealand loam's Australian lour h:>s !>ren arianj=od i)V the council of the. Now South Wales Kugiiv Union:—New Zealand v. Now SoDtli Wsiles, .Inly 11 ; New Zμland v. Australia, J lily 18; New Zea-:

■Iriml-v. .Queensland,'"at tJrislmic, July SO'; Now Zealand v,. An'slralia, iii HsisMmne, August ).; Now Zealand v. iNow ..Soiiili W:i!<'S,,..;!.fc Sydney, .AuansL 8; ! Now Zcaiand v..' AusLruliaj at Kvdiicv, ■■Aiisitsi, 1α... : . . ' . :■>;;;?It, iins hreii ihch\f.] that Iliis-ypnf mntelics shall not bo pliiyod iViiitsido'jl.liu capitals of iYow Soiitli and QuccnslaiKl other than npoos?s:iry iiiHlio. intcr-Sta'lo »nnn'K, iti view .ivitli JNe«- Zcnhiiid, u.\}o.\; ■■■ ■ ■• Wi'ho'Yoniniittei) of tho WolliiuTtoii .Hurl).v Union moi. last niglit, Mr. K. 0, iillMli's. '|irc«!<!iiig. rjv'i he i-liiwlw's ' Bay' Union ■ wrote ■ iiili■matiilK that-ihoy pxpc-teci a visit from ■■\yi:lliiiKtoii*l'liis Keason.. '.■■ .' ..' iJ/.Tiiu secretary of tli« Bofcreus , ' Association adviswl Uiai iho field at I'orinia hud.not been 'properly marked , out for .last, .Saturday, siikJ was dirty. It was '.decided'to notify the. Porirua Club tint unless the ground was attended to no nioro fciat<:hes woiifd lie playr-j there. '• Three Petonc players (K..' Wilson, H. Crawford, .and- J. 11. Abbott), nlio aro nnticr 17 years of agts and who had played i» : two Longuo asked !o be, reinstated. Their api>Jicatioii was forwarded to the Now Zealand Union with ■ it recommendation for favourable consideration. 'jrSovcfal_ complaints were inftdo of referees failing to keep appointments for malclies last Saturday. It, wws i-ecolvcd t<i draw the attciition of t"ho Referees' 'Association- to this, and to ask ilia asseeiation to supply a list of all active referees.' '; .

,-.■■■■ s.Ev.KN-A-sipK rounxisY. I-ast night, the Wellington Ktifihy 'Union Biadu tho draw for the seven-u-sido tournament, wljieh is to be plnyod' oil Athletic Park on' Saturday afternoon. Tennis are- to meet as foltoivi;:— Oriental A v. Wellington A. Petom; B v. I'onekc A. AVellingtoii T! v. Petone A. Jlclroso A v. St. James H. Athletic 11 v. Athletic A; J'oiii'k© U v. Oriental J3. Melrose H v. .St. James A. Ktslwyn v. a temn .vet to bo eutcred.