FOOTBALL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 16, 11 September 1912, Page 5

FOOTBALL.

o HAWKE’S BAY v. NEW SOUTH WALES. (Per Press Association.) Napior, September 11. Beautiful weather prevails for the Hawke’s Bay-Now South Wales match. Considerable interest has bepn created in town by tbo action of certain Rugby officials in regard to the special stand erected for the North v. South Island match. The Rugby Union offerid the League the use of the stand at

what was considered an exorbitant .figure, and failing an agreement, the Rugby officials dismantled the stand and carted the timber away. The League officials started to work at midnight, and helped by the visiting team, and many residents whose sympathy with llngliy had been alienated by the ill-advised tactics of a few, reorocted the stand, and it was completed long before the match started. The dog-in-the-manger attitude of the 1 nion is very generally condemned. Tbs morning the Canterbury team preferred a short practice in Victoria Park to a trip to the Mountain—a waste of a grand morning, perhaps, hut no doubt better for the team so far as football is concerned. The visitors’ team for to-morrow’s match is as follows:

A. E. Doell A. McDonald, X. Payne, R. Pyle L. Cave and H. Taylor I). Sandman (wing forward) L. Parsons W. Max well, E. Baxter. W. Snrgeson, A. Paterson, W. Cuir mi ngs. E. Hasell, C. Hegarty (front row) Mr Xeilson (Wellington) has bco chosen as referee.