FOOTBALL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 68, 25 July 1913, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

MAORIS DEFEAT SOUTH CANTER-

PURY

[Pkk Tubbs Association.]

Timaru, July 34

Tii© Maoris defeated South Canterbury by 19 points to 8. There were ;>OOO present at the match.

NO SUNDAY PLAY

Wellington, Joly 24

In connection with tho coming Californian tour, the New Zealand Union has’*Sr>proved of the itinerary received from the Californian Union/ with the exception that it was decided that no Sunday date would be played.

NORTH ISLAND TEAM.

G. Loveridge and H. J. Mynott were pasengers by the mail train this morning, en route to Christchurch. Loveridge, the Tukapa three-quarter, is to replace McGregor in tho North Island team. Mynott, on© of the selectors for the team to tour California, has gone to Christchurch to witness the inter-island match, which is to be played to-morrow. Stohr, Roberts, Cain, and Dewar, the other Taranaki members of the North Island team, left for Christclful-ch yesterday.

A BENEFIT 1 MATCH

Tukapa and Clifton met at Waitara yesterday and played a match as a benefit to C. Crawleyj a Clifton player, who was recently injured at Waitara. A number of juniors played’for Clifton, but play was fairly even. The first spell ended with tho score at ii—<J in favor of Clifton, but in the second spell Tukapa put oil eleven points and Clifion did not score, the final score being; Tukapa 20, Clifton 11. The second junior game Stratford r. Clifton, set down for yesterday at Waitara, was not played, the Stratford team not turning up.

beat Star ill. (nil), at New Plymouth, beat Star 111., at New Plymouth. At Stratford, Stratford High School defeated New Plymouth Technical College by 38 to nil.

THE LEAGUE GAME. i i ■:: }_ • <. In connection with, the refusal of the Egiiioui A. aiid P. Association to allow tl 10 .Leagiib. Taranaki t. ,:\oiv ;Souph ' Wiles 5 fa 'bo played, bn Lao Aobouation’s ( ground r ?it Hawqra atter, previously lousing it to the Leju guo, the _Star says:—‘‘At the last jnopting pf ufrf- (Ay .and ,P. Association <ji, letter was received ffoih 'the Taranaki llugby,., linion stating, that if the ground was used for the match it would be disqualified for hour play. A sub-committee was appointed to meet the Hawera jßugby Football Club to discuss the matter, to see ii an amicable settlement could _iio±J;o~axru:ecl sooi ; The League officials placed theonat£sr JA fh3 hiußds iiMsS solicitor, afld ' it-' is understood that an action for ‘■dfeih- 1 ages for alleged breach of contract 1 will be instituted A/-alid' P, Aspyciatwnj r .

It is not yet certain where ' the' match will now be flayed, but it will' most likely be at Eltham. . Under the heading, f ‘Killed by Kindness,” “J. Andrews”. , writes to the Eltham Argus as follttws:-—I noticed with some .surprise rthat alter completing arrangement a • lor the TaranakiNew South Wales League match at Hawera next month, and the printing of posters concerning same the promoters have been turned down. There seems to be something at the back of this, as the League officials visited Hawera and leased the showgrounds for this particular game, and this right-about face action from Hawera points to other influences being put to work to minimise the success of the League game. The League authorities can-be depended upon to make every effort to secure hte why and wherefore of this refusal to the previously sanctioned ground. Already this season Rugby interprovincial matches have been played, on this particular arena, so it can hardly be that the A. and P. Show officials have strong objections to football there, and if these are iSofc 'tfek'iibnsible for the reverse action, who are? Can it ho that the Rugby Union are at the hack of it? It looks like it, and this on the top of the bombastic statement of the chairman of the Rugby Union in referring to the League game “that ; hey, the Rugby Union, had killed, rim new game by kindness.” Ho probably knows more about ihe kindness business than any other gentleman on the committee, but if the present action is duo to the Rugby Union ii- looks as if the League game is causing much uneasiness to tho Rugby officials, and perhaps they, like many others throughout Taranaki,' are beginning to recognise that Rugby is on the wane, and tho new stylo of play'gaining converts every week. The denial of tho Hawera ground will not rob the Taranaki players and public of seeing the Welshmen as there ■ are many other grounds available in the province. It looks as if this is a strong'attempt to boycott the 1 v ague game, and who are there to boycott but the opposition. The latter have been top-dog for many years, but like vaccination, the League game i„ catching, and next winter will probably find it going stronger in many tonus besides Eltham. The League officials are not downhearted at this treatment—on the contrary they will buckle to all the harder ; opposition makes one work, and there is every prospect that public sympathy will swing to the new game through, this treatment.