Rugby Football.

Free Lance, Volume IV, Issue 196, 2 April 1904, Page 21

Rugby Football.

This week football weather is with us, and on. Saturday the openino- games of tr. j season will be played on the Athletic Park. The Melrose Club plays Hawera at- 3, Wellington plays Christchurch at 2.15, and Poneke plays City (TSauier) at 3.45. ♦ * * Senior championship matches will probably commence on the 23rd instant. Junior matches, however, will not be started until the first Saturday in May. The practice matches at Miramar last Saturday were all well attended. * ♦ w The Mel rose Club are. erecting a new gymnasium on a section abutting on the Athletic Park. Mr. George Payne, the popular president of the club, has a subscription-list to assist in defraying the cost of the building, and he will bo pleased to hear from any well-wisher cr old member of the club whom he has not met yet in his travel round with the list. Mr. Alec Campbell, it is pleasing to state, is recovering from the attack of ti phoid fever which has rendered his residence in the Hospital compulsory for a while. It will be a few weeks yet before he is about again in his accuse tomed health and vigour, but football circles in Wellington cannot spare Alec just yet — he is a most popular administrator.

Jack Grant has also had a hard figrht with typhoid fever, and has not yet been, able to take up the secretaryship of the Melrose Club. I hop© he may scon be about again in his best health. • * » The Petone Club have presented the cup won by them in the benefit match kst year to the Rugby Union, to be competed for in a challenge match on s:milar conditions to those on which it was won b-> r themselves. » ■» » Mr. W. Coffey has been re-ar>r>ointed representative of the Canterbury Rugby Union on the New Zealand Union. A special vote of thanks has been passed to him by that body for his services last season. Harry Frost, the well-known ex-Can-tc rburv representative, was recently married at Chistchureh. Congratulations. Oscar Kember, the ex-treasurer of the Wellington Football Club is 1 to. be married early in April. It is very probable that the New Zealand Rugby Union will issue an annual for the benefit mainly of smaller affiliated unions. The projected brochure will contain, amongst things, the Lsws of the Game, with case rulings thereon brought up to date. [Continued on page 21.)

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