FOOTBALL.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1923, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

SEDDON SHIELD MATCH. TO-DAY'S TEAMS. The following arc the teams to play at Nelson this afternoon: — Nelson—Full-back, White ; threequarters, Grant, Snodgrass anti W»dlaee; five-eighths, Reed and Byrne; half-hack, Garvin; wing-forward, Watson ; forwards. Young, Brownlee, Langbein, H. Snow, E. Snow, Xicmari, and ' r Priest. Emergency hacks, Saxon and Dobson ; emergency forwards, Clarke and Rrvant.

West Coast—Full-back, Goodall; three-quarters, Steel. Nelson and Movnihun : live-eighths, McKay and Warnes ; half, Palmer; wing, Mountt; hookers, Davis and Devailoy; lock, Bannister; sides, O'Regan and Jamieson : hack row. Hurley and Hagnr. Emergencies : Hacks, Reynolds and R. Rowley; forward, Wright.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAIILE ASSOCIATION. HOME LIBEL CASK. LONDON, July 2G. Mr Stanley has sued Mr George Barnett. formerly a member of the English Rugby Union committee, and of tho staff of the “Pall Mall Gazette,” for libel in relation to an article commenting on the Lawton football controversy regarding colonial players’ eligibility in Britain. The plaintiff complained tho article accused him of inducing a member of the Rugby Union to raise the question of Lawton’s status in order to get Lawton suspended. The action hns been settled, the defendants apologising and paying costs.