RUGBY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 293, 30 August 1918, Page 7

RUGBY

CANTERBURY V. WELLINGTON. In view of the twenty-ninth meeting of representatives of the Wellington and Canterbury provinces at the Athlotie Park on Saturday afternoon, the 'following table of the results of'tlio pi ovious twonty-eight matches is interesting (Wellington has won 16, Canterbury 11, and one was drawn):—]B76, Canterbury won, 19-1*; 1879, Wellington won, 5—3; 1883, Wellington won, 8-0; 1885, Canterbury won, 8-0; 3887, Wellington won, 8-5; 1891, Canterbury won, 16—1*; 1892, Wellington von, 12—4; 1895, Canterbury won, 6—4; 1890, Wellington won, 12—3; 1897, Wellington won, 4-0; 1898, drawn, 6 all; 1899, Canterbury won. 6-5; 1900, Wellington won, 16—6; KOl, Canterbury won, 12—3; ]DO2. Canterbury won, 9—3; 1903, Canterbury won, B—s; 1904, Wellington won, li—3; 1905, Canterbury won, P—3; 1906, Wellington won, 34-0; 1907, Canterbury won, 9—6; 1908, Wellington won, 11—5; 1909, Wellington won, 11-6; 1910, AVollington won, 26-9; 1911, Wellington won, 26-9; 1912, Wellington won, 16-9; 1913, Wellington won, 6—3; 1914, Canterbury wen, U—9; 1918, AVellington won, 9-0. *A forco counted one point.

r CANTERBURY V. TRENTHAM. Prior to returning south by Monday afternoon's ferry steamer, Canterbury will meet the Trentham combination. The match is timed to start nt 11 a.m., an innovation so far as representative ltugby in Now Zealand is concerned. The Trentlmin baek division will be:—Full-back, Cowan; threo-ijuar-ters, Cloke, Davidson, Packer; fiveeighths, E. Roberts and Milliken; halfback, H. M. Taylor.