FOOTBALL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 161, 12 July 1904, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

KILLING THE HUOBY ROUGH.

(Per Press Association.) > DUNEIUN. July" 14. . At tho Rugby Union committee noetinga Green Island player was disqualified for life for kicking in opposing player while the latter, .vas on the ground. Ono player was impended for the season for using roul language. It was decided to write to tho referee asking if he had : hoard of a far more flagrant ofleuoa ■ jy the other side, ,

In the senior championship football match at tireytown Mastortoo defeat- ' od Grcytown by 11 points to 8. v Itothery will bo ployed as wing forward In the northern team during the first spell of the test match on I'hursday at Ertham. At Wellington on Saturday in sen- ' or play Old Boys boat Wellington ' by 8 to 0, Foneko beat Athletic by Uto 5, and at Petone the hone men defeated Oriental (Wellington)" i>y Bto 8. Playing for Uie Junto* - championship Petone beat Old Boys 14—0, and Melrose and St. Junes - played a drawn game, B—B. Auckland's Saturday footGnll matohes resulted as follows ;—City bwt North Shore by 11 to 8, and New. •■ ton beat Ponsonby by 13 to 8, Newton thus wins tho cup. In senior football at Dunedln on -Saturday Southern beat Union b» 12 to 8, Dunodin beat Zingnrl by Bto ✓ nil, University boat Alhambra by 16 ■* to nil, Pirutcs beat Kaikorai by 8 to nil. There Is a persistant rumour In ••* town that the players who were dttiluftlltlud for corrupt practices at Auckland was «n ex-Taranakl player •>f groat promise, and a member or the lust Now Zealand u«m. The. inquiry into tho affair was conducted n private, and names have not been divulged. Seeing that football it ;upporU<d by tho general public uM hat full publicity might mean *> warning to others with similar pra» lilections, there seein.* no ground) or the secrecy of the Investigations; ■!> Tho following will represent Tukapa, 111. in tho first of the matches with Walumto 111. to decide priority of position in the third grade for Tar*. * naki :-Full, Fnulder ; three-quar-ters, Hooker, Auckland, — _ fly-. . eighth, Finn ; half, Bullot • wines Autrldge, Shlpton; forwards, Jootjl ■ soa, TippinM, Mace, Edwards Allan Youngman, SeMord. Tho match will he playod on the Recreation Ground - '" on 'Thursday. „ nd tne ££ . lng will be at Hanata 0 n Baturda, J

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