FOOTBALL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 140, 17 June 1904, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

THE MAORIS IN AUSTRALIA. (Pit Press Association.) SYDNEY, June Id. le Ante team will pluy a return match against, yesterday's team next Saturday, this taking the plaro of the fixture for the State schoo's learn. The latter wero unable to raise a sufficiently heavy team. At a meeting of the management committee of the Wnirarapa Uugbv Union it was decided to take a trip to Tarunaki, playing on July M7th or 28th, provided Taranaki makes a guarantee of £ls.

Rugby Rough" suggests that a match should be played between the teams noted below, thp game to eventuate on June 2Hrd on the racecourse ground, am! the proceeds to be devoted towards paying the travelling expenses of the' northern end representative men. A. team :—Full-back, Dr. Fookes-three-quarters. Smith, Hill, Abbott' five-eighth, Allan ; half, Humphries ■ wing forwards, Giddy pud Street •' forwards, Birkett, Allan, Rvan. Kivell, Smith, Stokps, and Weir. B. team :—Full-back, Ridland ■ three-quarters, Callander, Polier', Lake ; five-eighth, Mynott; half, I'rewin ; wings, Rothery and Mabin • forwards, Balfc, Jenkins, Stroud Prior, Murphy, Seamark, lx>veridge (Clifton). h

"Uugby Hough" adds that this game should be useful for the northern selectors. The Star seniors yesterday defeated Clifton by 12 points to'nil, four tries being scored. Callander, the Star back, had his collar-bone broken. Star 111, and Tukapa 111. plave.l a drawn game—three points each. For the former Weller scored a try, i,nd for the latter Yotmgman crossed the line, but in each caso the atte.npt to register the major score was futile. The game on the whole was n good one, Tukapa having, if anything, the best of it in the second spoil. L. Humphries, the Star liveeighth, had his collar-bone broken within a few minutes of the commencement of piny.