FOOTBALL.
The following team has been selected to represent the Excelsior Football Club in a friendly game with the United Club (Greymouth), on Cass Square on Saturday next at J p.m. : Nightingale. Christensen, Grant. Houston, King J., Ross IC. ivinloch, Montagu, Barron, Gttgich J.. Preston, Eager, Frditas, King A.. Shaw. Etiterg.: Staines. Dale, Glover. Houlahiin. Palmer and .McDonald. [Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] LONDON, April 5. •It has always boon a matter ol regret that the Rugby Code was not universally adopted throughout the Dominions,” says Mr Alfred St George Hamutersby, writing in the “Evening News.” He participated in the first A nglo-Scdttisb Intel national .Match, and was tho originator of Rugby in Canterbury and Vancouver. Ho 'avs- "All who have seen the AH Blacks, realise Australia's and Canada’s loss, in not attempting Rug by. lie recalls the first New Zealand match in 1871, played at Ashburton. between North and South Canterbury, players travelling fifty mile
fording rivers in coaches, and re it ing lint evening.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 April 1927, Page 2
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