FOOTBALL

Hokitika Guardian, 16 October 1922, Page 4

FOOTBALL

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. WELLINGTON, October 13. j Another rift in the Rugby Union lute I is disclosed by the resignation of Mr Slade, chairman of the Management Committee of the New Zealand Union. This action is a sequel to exception being taken to liis arranging a match between Auckland and Wellington without calling a regular meeting of the committee.

A SPRINGBOK PROFESSIONAL. A South African footballer wellknown in New Zealand, George van Rooyen, is announced to be the first Springbok to embrace professionalism in this country (writes a London correspondent). “Such a capture,' sa.,s the “Athletic News”, “is not usually associated with the Hull Kingston Hovers Club, which in recent years has devoted itself to the development of home-grown material, but apparently tlico directors considered the prospect of acquiring the services of vasi Ronyen too good to miss and negotiations through Messrs Thomas Cook and Sons a transaction unique in football resulted in van Rooyen with his wife and two children leaving Johannesburg and reaching Hull last Monday. Van Rooyen is a typical specimen of the Colonial footballer. Standing Gft 2in and scaling lost, he has the reputation of being one of the fastest forwards in .South Africa, bis try-getting record last season being Go. He first played I in the Johannesburg Pirates team in lf)10, and, except for the war. when be fought with South African troops in Mesopotamia, he lias pltiqed ever since. For six seasons he has represented tlie Transvaal arid South Africa in all the principal games at homo and in New Zealand and Australia.”