FOOTBALL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 183, 6 August 1904, Page 2

FOOTBALL

ENGLAND v. CANTERBURY. < TEAMS FOR TO-DAY. " ll'er Press Association.) CWUSTCHIIRCH, August 5. The football ground at Lancaster Park has been under water sinco the snow was lifted from it, 'but tonight the drains have Iwgun to and there is a hope for a I airly good though very greasy ground. The teums for the match are British: Full-back, O'llrien ; threequarters, Morgan, McEvudy, Gabe, Llewellyn ; halves, Bush, Vile ; forwards, Bodell-Sivwright, Dobson, llai"ding, Bovun, Edwards, Crowthor, Swajmoll, Saunders. Canterbury : Full-back, Love; threequarters, Menzies, Harper, Grant ; five-eighths, Dean, Byrne; half, Harvey ; forwards, L. Corbett, llorgim, Fanning, Newton, Bi-unsden, J, Corbett, Learmont, Roddick. Humphries has been asked to play as wing triroo-qunrter for Taranaki against Wellington,. The New South Wales Association footballers speak enthusiastically in their treatment in New Zealand, anil state that) there is every probability of a New Zealand team returning the visit next season. , Ten members of the Thistle senior team who played on Saturday with a man already disqualified for rough play were suspended on Thursday by tihe management committee of the Auckland Association until the end of next season. Tile player originally dealt with waai suspended (or a further twelve months. On Thursday the Taranaki Rifles beat the Guards by 17 to 3. A match', Truimers aii'd Jockeys versus Bakers was won by the former team by 31 to nil. Humphries played a good game for the Rifles on Thursday, displaying a taste of his old form. | . A scheme is 'mooted in town to drain the Recreation Ground by lowering the level of the lower lake. The ground is unplayable at present. The proposal of the Rugby Union to reserve the terraces for the Tara-' naki-British maUsh ihasi lost a great deal of the " bug-bear " opposition at first adduced. The Rugby Union has to protect its guarantors against unfavourable circumstances, untoward weather, and so forth. The following will represent the t Borough Council against H. Brown , and Co. and Sasih and Door combined team to-day Full, S. Stroud ; throe-quarters, J. Ward, R. Woodhouse, and F. Stohr ; live-eighth, T. Smith ; half, H. Gibbons, junior ; wings, F. Jury, M<ack ; fonvardß, W. . Smith, W, Yardley, F, Hook, H. Whittington, S. Furze, F. Poland, Parker. The teams will dine at Jubilee Villa in the evening. The following .have ix*m nicked to represent Messrs Boon Bros, versus Messrs Bellringer and Coloman combined in a football match to be played on the High School grounds this afternoon : —Boon Bros.' team : Geo. Lamb, A. Greig, A. Carnell, A. H. , Martin, 11. Street, H. Jemkin, J. Jury, A. Boon, R. Boon, C. Allen. A. Loveridge, J. Crozier, M. Rough J. Boon, F. Moore. Coleman and Bollringcrs: F. Coleman, Coulthard, Lobb, W. Coleman, C. Hammond (captain), Wcller, j! Way, W. Way, H. Bellringer,T. Hook, H. Cordes, Bellringer, Owen, Beals, O'Connor ; emergencies, F. Bellringer, Hamilton, W. Batchelor. and ' Roado.

With reference to the complaint of t rio Argus regarding the overlooking of Eltham players in tho team which met . the representatives on Wednesday, the selectors of the south team, in answer to inquiries of the Waimate Witness, states that the team was not aupposod to ixj a represent tive one of the southern division : that it was only a team they got together at the wish of the Union to afford a practice for the representahat only men were chosen that the selectors l knew would be available ; and that dn view of this fact they neither selected Opunake nor Eltham playerstf