RUGBY FOOTBALL

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 56, 3 September 1926, Page 9

RUGBY FOOTBALL

CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL TO-MOREOW. To-morrow's Eugby games being the last of the senior championship series, and the contest for premiership being close, the interest of local followers is running high. Athletic and University are -he finalists, and their meeting at Athletic Park is being looked forward to as the event of the season so far as club football is concerned. Both teams have been showing good form, and the contest to-morrow is likely to provide exhilarating football. A slight increase in the price of admission to the ground has been made, but in falling in with the decision of tho Bugby Union local enthusiasts will be supporting a good cause, as 50 per cent, of the proceeds of the match is to go to the new stand fund. Early arrivals at the Park will be treated to two good curtain-raisers, ono between the Nelson junior representatives and the Wellington third grade representatives, and the other between two local fourth grade teams. Tho teams for tho championship final to-morrow are:—Athletic: Taylor, Ronborg, Svenson, Tait, M'Kay, Whinham, Warwick, Pope, Osborne, Adams, Edgar, Hughes, Tyree, Fraser, Butterworth; emergencies, Cookson and Spencer. University: Noble-Adams, Mason, Maekay, Sceats, Foden, Mackenzie, Walpole, Leys, Deidorich, O'Began, Childs, Burns, Martin-Smith, Baldwin, Platts-Mills, Pope, Cormack.