ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2559, 24 March 1923, Page 2

ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL.

The local club will open the season on Easter Monday when a match will be played with the Wellington South team. The following players will represent the visitors: Messrs-Gill, Rylie, Martin, Robin, Marie, Francis, Buekmaster, Stocks, Cakebrend and Bolt. In the evening the visitors will be entertained at a smoke concert in Walls’ tea rooms. ? So far the club has not settled upon a definite playing ground. The Borough Council has given the club the use of Victoria Park, but the playing field is marred by a concrete cricket pitch. The club is •willing to take up the. pitch and replace it at the end of the season with a turf pitch but permission to do this has not yet been granted by the Council. The Rugbyites object to Association being played on the racecourse on the same days as Rugby ay contusion would be brought: about re admission money, although the Association club lias equal claim to the racecourse under the Act governing the reserve. The Council has also refused the club the right to play on Easton Park. Despite all the temporary setbacks “soccer” has come to stay in Foxton and will claim its rights to equal privileges at an early date. The membership now totals 50 odd with 20 odd players. This record for the second season indicates the growing popularity of the sport. Perhaps a new Council will be a little more sympathetic to the club. The club proposes to open a gymnasium at an early date. Easter Monday’s game with Wellington South is being looked forward to with considerable interest.

It is probable that, the first match against the Levin club will take place next Saturday.