GAMES TO COME

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20007, 4 August 1939, Page 4

GAMES TO COME

RUGBY FIXTURES LIST COLLEGIATE MATCHES BUT NOE OF WALES CUB VISIT BY MAORI TEAM By "Emergency” The 1939 Rugby season is drawing to a close, and the Poverty Bay union, as an end-of-the-season gift, offers its patrons a particularly strong list of fixtures, both club and representative. To-morrow the senior representative team will be engaged in a Barry Cup match in Wairoa, while on the Oval in Gisborne, Wairoa juniors will play Poverty Bay in a junior Barry Cup fixture. The following week, the principal attraction of the season will be offered in the meeting of Poverty Bay seniors and an Auckland representative fifteen. Auckland have never defeated Poverty Bay on the Oval, and the home team is determined to keep this fine record intact. The form of players in this game will be closely watched, as the Poverty Bay players are eligible for selection in the North Island Minor Unions’ fifteen to play in Christchurch on the following Saturday. High Schools’ Game The principal curtain-raiser on the occasion of the Auckland match will be the inter-school game between Hastings High School and Gisborne High School. Both teams have registered victories over Napier Boys’ High School, and a keen game is anticipated. Another attraction on this date will be the annual game between the Fire Brigade and the Referees. On August 19 games in the Premier Cup series will toe continued, but the chief interest from the spectators’ point of view will be the game between Sacred Heart College, secondary school champions of Auckland, and Gisborne High School. These teams will meet in. what it is hoped will toe the first of a .series of annual games, and a keen, open game is anticipated. One week later the senior representative team will travel to Opotiki to play the Bay of Plenty fifteen, but home patrons will not be forgotten. On that date the annual Prince of Wales Cup match between Maori teams representing Tairawhiti and Te Waipounamu (South Island) will be played on the Oval. This game always shows Maori football at its brilliant best, and should provide a bright display. Club Series Final The final series of club games in the senior grade will be played on September 2, and the following week the Auckland Suburbs third grade team will play the Poverty Bay third grade representatives. On Sept. 16 the Wairoa senior team will play Poverty Bay at the Oval and on the same date a Colts team from the Poverty Bay union will play in Wairoa.

The last date is a tentative one, efforts at present being in train to get a game against the New Zealand Maori fifteen on 'September 23, after their match with the 'Fijian tourists on the previous Saturday. The list of fixtures is as follows: August 12. —Auckland seniors v. Poverty Bay; Hastings High School v. Gisborne High School. August 19— Seniors: Marist v. Celtic; H. 5.0.8. v. Old Boys. College game: Sacred Heart College (Auckland) v. Gisborne High School. August 26.—Poverty Bay v. Bay. of Plenty, in Opotiki; Prince of Wales Cup: Tairaiwliiti v. Te Waipounamu, in Gisborne. September 2.—Club games: Marist v. H. 5.0.8.; Celtic v. Old Boys. September 9. —Auckland Suburbs v. Poverty Bay third grade representatives; lower grade club games. September 16.—Wairoa v. Poverty Bay, in Gisborne; Poverty Bay Colts v. Wairoa Colts, in Wairoa. September 23.—Poverty Bay v. New Zealand Maoris (tentative).