FOOTBALL.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 April 1923, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

j lIV Till. liC.ltAt’H— VlCK PRESS ASSOCIATION.] RUGBY FOOTBALL. CHKIisTCH 1" RCH. April 13. In the Rugby senior fixtures on Saturday Mariats beat Old Boys nine to ,-tx. after a good game. Old Boys ied a! half-time by six to four. Christchurch 18. bent Varsity . Merivale 20. beat North Cam >. here nil. Sydenham-Lyi tel ton and A 1 •*i •• i d:iw eight points each. SOUTHLAND CLAIM. INVERCARGILL, April Ri At a meeting of the Southla t.l IC-gby Union this evening it was dec! U 1 to make strong reptesentations at tile annual meeting of the New Zeala-ii I t.ioi. to have the North v. South Ul.-.ic! match played at Invercargill. The chairman said that they c u.M mu the match at a handsome pruiit. and in support, said that- he limit t stood that Wellington was the oniv I i ovince that heat Southland in the takings for the Springbok mate-lies. He estimated they could take in the vicinity of ,C 1,000 if the match wore given to Southland. Southland had a record the Now Zealand t nioti could hardly overlook, and the delegates should press strongly the Southland claims. PUBLIC SCHOOLS RUGBY. CHRISTCHURCH. April 10. The exclusion of the Church schools from the Public Schools Association s Rugby competitions, was considered ai a, meeting of the council ei that- body to-day, when an application was received from the Marist- Brothers tor permission to enter two teams in the competitions. There also was a. request- received front the Canterbury Rugby Union to fav«mi ably consider tile admission of these teams for a further period of one year, in order to give the union sufficient time to organise a competition for the Marist and tin- other denominational schools. A motion that the roque-t ol the union be acceded to wo> moved, but an amendment, that a reply he sent to. the Marist Brothers that the association had resolved that- all its competitions he confined to public schools, and that their entries could not be accepted, was parried.