FOOTBALL NOTES

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1801, 6 July 1906, Page 3

FOOTBALL NOTES

Considerable interest is being evinced in the football match to-morrow between the orack Coast team (Tokomaru Bay) and the present holders of the lccal champion- ] ship banner (Kaiti City) The Kaiti-City i Club has always held a foremost plaoe in looal football, and has held the position of | rnnDers up for several seasons, oonteetiDg | possession of the coveted banner nDtil the ; final game. The olub’s victory last season waa a meritorious one, as with two rounds ( to go it bad to win all its matches to come even with Weßt Eod, the final game resulting in a viotory for Kaiti-Oity efier a splendid contest. Oa the other hand, Tokomaru has held the championship on the Coast since the formation of the subnhion, and is a very strong club. The selectors of the Kaiti-Oity Club have pibked the following players to represent that blubHay, Ecekana, Bfoughton, NolaD, Puflett, BobinsoD, Poulsen, Sharp, Newton, Parker Turei, Hansen, Johnston, Grant, Wells, aia# Willocji. ?h° .combination is a strong one, but the teem bas been heavily handicapped this season by the injudicious arrangement of the baok division. Poulsod, behind the pack, is one of the best serum halves that has played here for tnany years, but up to the present the olub has not been able to fill the fiveeighths position with advantage. Erekana, who is undoubtedly one of the finest players in that position that the district bas produced, has, for some insorutable reason, been ocoopyiug the position oi lull-back. With Broughton and Erekana five-eighths, Nolan centre, and Bobinson and Puflett on the wiDgs, Kaiti City Would b f T,ve a vpry strong attaok, and their defence would also bp materially strengthened. The Coast team has asked that Mr B. (J. Hallamore be appointed to control the game. This is not surprising, as Mr Hallamore’s refereeing bas invariably given satisfaction. His ruliogs on mattors of faot are oertainly what makes bis refereeing so popular with players and public alike, His whistle only sounds onoe, whereas another referee would blow six times, but no point of the game escapes bis observation, and neither side is allowed an unfair advantage. Play commences at 3 p.m., the charges being Is for gentlemen, fid for ladies, and fid for |ho stand, j