Football.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8197, 25 May 1906, Page 5

Football.

The following will represent the Kia Toas on Saturday:—Seniors against Institute : Hutchinson, W. "Webb, O. Keath, A. Webb, Richards, Iling, i Munro, Guy, Dilks, Keeley, Jones, L Wiles, Colliss, Waldegrave, Benjamin ; ' emergencies. Hall and Jugg. juniors against Old Boys: Hodgins, Edgecomb, Mar tain, Brum, Apatard, Crawford, Govan, Cronin, Baigent, Hardy, Gray, i Thorburn, McDonald, Harris, Low; emergency, Skinner. Third - class againstPalmerston: Tasker, McGregor, Smith, Drury, Boon, Chambers, Woods, ' "Kuril, Butler, Tarrant. Osborne, Wright, Kelly, Muller, White. Emergencies : Osborne, Lowe, Crooksley, Tilcker. The following will represent College Street Old Boys' Club in the Cup fix-to-morrow:—Seniors against Feilding at. Feilding: Wallace, Lowe Hall, O'Neill, O'Connell, Ongley, Jack Walsh, Smith, Belfit, Waldegrave, Puki, Fenton, Armstrong, Maxwell. Drag leaves Royal Hotel corner at 1.15 sharp. Juniors against Kia Toa 11. on the Sports Grounds: Stock, O'Sullivan, Woods, Stevens, Carter, Evans, Carson, Peircy, Burns, Tremewan, McLeod, Watkins, Henry. Williams, Goodhall, Martis, Atkin, Yoss, McCarty. All players to be on the ground by 2.30 or else lose their places in £he team. Third class, against Fielding 111. at. Feilding. The following are requested to go. the drag leaving the Royal Hotel corner at 1.15 sharp:—Hocking, Holland, Anthony, Dewar, Lucas (2), Watkins (2), ,Sexton, Buchanan, Munro (2), Collingwood, Mulling, Tremaine, Walters Russell, Peterson, Keys, Grey. The following will represent Palmerston 11. in their with Felding at the Showground to-morrowPorteous, Downes, Stewart, Eglington, Stagpoole, Ryan, Nissen, Rickelben, Bartlett, Scheidt, Bird, Yincent, Matheson, Jansen, and Hunwick. Palmerston 111. against Kia Toa 111. on the Sports Ground:—Kyle, Drew, Rice, Riteher, Satchell, Nielsou, Small, Whittaker, Farlane,' Edwards, Little, Palmerston, Winton, Milne, Russell; emergency, Stewart. All players to be on the ground at 2.30 sharp. The following will represent Institute against Kia Toa to-morrow:—; Skelly, Sorenson, Stalker, Scott, Jones, Hands, Egan, Boon, Brough, Buick, Overton, Cameron, Carson, Maicolm ; emergencies, Miller, Scobie. Footballers have started the season strenuously. Here are two paragraphs concerning "willing goes" lasj Saturday :—ln the Melrose-Oriental senior match p.'ayed on the Athletic Park, Wellington, on Saturday afternoon, knocks were hard and frequent. On one occasion an Oriental forward, apparently tried beyond his point of endurance, retaliated, and with fire m his eves, and clenched fists, deliberately cnased an opponc at round the scrum. Another noiiceable act was performed hv a Melrose back. The man had been tackled by an Oriental man, and whilst both players were on the ground, the Melrose player punched his opponent in the face, no doubt as a means of persuading him to let go. Several minor "incidents," too numerous to be mentioned, marred the game, but the referee apparently saw nothing. Christchurch Press says that at the meeting of the Bugby Union on Tuesday, a letter was receiyed from a touch judge in which he reports Grffiiu, a Richmond player. Griffin received a on the face which he accused A-tsiey, a Linwood player, of causing. After the match Ansley said he was not aware that he had marked Griffin, but if he had done so, he was very sorry. Griffin went away for a few minutes, and

then returned with practically the whole of the Richmond team, and hit Ansley twice in the mouth in quick succession. The touch judge says:—"l immediately stepped between the two and told Griffin that I should report him, whereupon several other members of the Richmond team knocked me over. At this stage of the proceedings a member of the Lin wood 111. team came along, and seeing what was happening, immediately set to work on Griffin and gave him a good thrashing. Again, sir, the language used by Griffin was very bad and abusive. If it is necessary to have witnesses to prove this charge, I shall be willing to produce them.'' A searching enquiry will be held into the incident.