FOOTBALL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2124, 5 July 1907, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

The team to represent Takitimu juniors- on Saturday will be selected from the following: Callaghan (2), H. Kara, Halbert, Smith, Evans,- Roderick, W. Campbell, Seymour, Perry, Thaxter, Tuohy, McConnell, : Haereroa, Pilcher, and Swainson. Thirds: Stubbs, Campbell, Smith, Bousfield, Cameron, Gordon, Craill, Ipu Kara, Malone, Dunlop, Lange, Morell, Stevens, Close, Porter, Hughes. Breingan, and Marshall.

The following will represent the West End thirds on Saturday: H. Hepburn, A. Sawyer, V. Oman (cap.), J. Newton, W. Smith. R. Shpet. E. Whitfield. P. MulcToon, G. Whitfield, Wi Douglas, E. Roclie. A. Newton, K. Nasmith, and W. Whitfield ; emergencies, M. Weir, J. Paterson and N. Write.

An interested spectator at Lancaster Park, Christchurch was Professor Starr Jordan, president of Lelaiul Stanford University. California, where Rugby football ‘lias recently been established in place of the more strenuous and dangerous American game. Pfofesor Jordan was recently in Sydney, where he saw some of the leading club teams play; and talking to a reporter after the game, he said that it seemed to him the New Zealanders stayed better than the players of New .South.'Wales'. In comparing New Zealand and American players, lie said that one, point impressed him was the excellence of the kicking. In an American team, all tlie kicking devolved on two phiyej’sp one of tliem’.beihg -an understudy to the star performer. When President Wheeler, of the University of California, and Professor Jordan put ah embargo oil tlie American game, and Rugby was first established. the American students were inclined to class it- as too gentle a pastime, hut experience : had taught them that there was plenty of room for hard knocks. The Californians would be irepared to send a team to New Zealand as soon as they considered they were sufficiently experienced, hut they would first like to have a visit from a New Zealand or Australian team.