FOOTBALL.

NZ Truth, Issue 75, 24 November 1906, Page 3

FOOTBALL.

(By "Pakeha.")

H. J. Orr, the Scottish International, has just returned to England, from Australia. He is to be stationed at Plymouth. C. Y. Adamson, the English International, who was out to Australia with the team skippered by Parson Muilineaux, has »given- up chasing the leather as a Rugby Unionist. He has signed a contract to take on the soccer game. It is quite >on the cards that Wellington will have the services of a couple of Taranalci players of undeniable merit when next season comes .round. More I. cannot say at this stage.

Cardiff football. enthusiasts recently gathered at the Park Hall m their city to pay a compliment to the play-/ ers who last season secured the Welsh championship, and lost but a t single match, and that against the New Zealanders. It was rightly though/t that such a great season should be commemorated m some fashion, and a committee representative of the city, opened a subscription list. About £170 was subscribed, and the players were presented with a gold Watch as a memento.

Owing to pressure on space this week, I am unable to deal with the proposals formulated by Harry Mclntyre for future Ranfurly Shield contests. I intend to revert to the subject when the toeball season is m view.

Over 800 schoolboys paid for admission to the East Midlands v. South African match. The New Zealand nipper invariably gets his Rugby fun on the "nod."

The Welsh Rugby Union has made p-rants of £350 to charities. The New Zealand Union, with its 1200 golden quids m hand, prefers to go on the "shent per shent" principle.

The "Sporting Chronicle's" little dig at the "All Blacks" :-So far as one can judge from first impressions, the South African footballers, who are at present with us, are, from a social standpoint, an entirely different lot of young fellows from the New Zealanders who visited us last year. The latter kept themselves aloof from nearly all people ; they and their managers moved m a mysterious sort of way, and. while all acknowledged their excellence as footballers, they were not over popular, among the men with whom they played. They were out for success, and this was to be gained at the sacrifice of social intercourse. Now the South Africans are entirely different. They do not wish, to be glutted- with entertainment; but they are an enthusiastic, genial lot ; and they and their camp-followers will be welcomed wherever they go.