FOOTBALL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 464, 10 July 1909, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

At the conclusion of to-day’s match the the team to represent ' Foxton against' Mhnawatu next Saturday will be picked. The team selected will be, posted -up outside this office, this: evening, f At the meeting of: the management committee of ; the Welling:ton Rugby Union on Tuesday night, the Poneke' Club were granted permission to play a benefit match against' Ponsonby, in Auckland, early in September. The match will be a behefit for George Gillett (All Black and New Zealand and Auckland representative, now retired from football through an accident). The Ponsonby Club are preparedJto allow the visitors towards their expenses., . . - A footballer with a wooden leg is somewhat of a rarity, but such is the case, -says the Christchurch Press. A‘member of the Idnwood fourth-class team has One, - and plays very well with it -too. Auckland’s one-legged’ cricketer will have to accept a secondary, position. Everyone will admit that football is more strenuous than cricket. Some humourous incidents happen occasionally at Rugby Union meetings. On a recent evening; jthe secretary of Auckland Union laid a telegram bn iffie ? which’stated that the Poverty Bay team was coming to Auckland for;, certain,, and was signed “ Maud,”; Members grew hilarious, and the merriment only partly subsided; when the secretary explained that the secretary of the Poverty Bayj Union was. a Mr 'Maud. East 'week a North Shore player, who wanted to ‘ ‘ come down *■■ from- , one grade to a lower,, asked, to-be - ‘■•degraded.” , . , "