FOOTBALL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 6 August 1907, Page 3

FOOTBALL.

THE THIRD TEST' MATCH. AISTRAUAX TEAM. Keeeived 3th, ll.lio p.m. Sydney, August 5. I he Australian team to meet the New Xea»auders on .Saturday excludes all the gueen-dander*. and is as follows: Back. Uix: three-quarters, Messenger, Smith, and MandiWe; halves, Wood* and McKivatt; forwards. Rosewell, (jriffin, Barnett, McCue, Burge, Hughes, Howe, and Murnin.

THE PROFESSIONAL TOUR. THE MOVEMENT EXTENDING. Per Press Association. Wellington, August 5. The professional team of ltugby footballers will leave in the course of the next seven days for Australia, en route to hngland. The Southern members of the team are to reach Wellington on Wednesday, and with the local members will [care for Sydney by next Fridays boat from this port. Passage- to Sydney i.v tlu.- steamer leaving Auckland next .Monday have been 1-ookcd ior t lie Northern contingent, 2nd it U anticipated a proportion of the amateurs now on tour in Australia as representatives "of the New Zealand Kugby Union will cast in their lot with the professionals. The personnel of toe team is now decided upon, save in two cases, and it is reported that a numlier of good players are available for emergencies. The linances are said to be extremely good at present, so much so that all possible calls for ex-

penditiirc may be met with ease i|uite epait irom tlit* prospective gate taking-. Til." ramifications of the professional movement, here and in Australia Juie extended far beyond tin- bounds originally fixed, anil the results are likely to continue to develop. The formation of a professional club in Sydney with a view to playing matches against the New Zealauders this month will probably 1* followed by arrange-i-icnts f..r tin- tour of a New South \\al.v professional team to Yorkshire in 1!*«, and it i, the intention of the Xt*u Zealander-. when in Kngland, to arrange fur a \i-it to Australia and .'••■■. v Zealand in liiiki ..f a team reprc .-'•lllative ,jf the Northern Ku-jby I ni'm.

Asm K lATK IN <;AMK. 1 NORTH v. SOCTII. Mr S. Clarke has selected the follow- ' ing teams for the North v. South Association match to be played at Kit ham 1 en Thnisdav next: — North team (red shirts): —Byrne iN.i'.t. Cibbs ilngb-wood), Woodlcy, l.i-t"r. Coibe.k IN.P.), Tfopson fI.), Smart. Peter-on 1V.1'.). .Sc.hoficld (T.\ cii:i - 'ti iN.l'.i. Sutherland ([.). Kmorftowen I 1.1. Newton (N.P.) South team (white shirts) Frost, M'l/iren. ll'ilf, Kelly, Jackson. Chadwie 1 :. Srapleton. Carneross, Preece, M""la'.'.'n. I.ewi-. Emergencies: Melvil!i'. lteev.-s. lie Mlowin? v ill represent Tuba pa iH. the <;ymn:i-iimi nub on ■ Tlnir-'lav next a t Western Park: ; I!i-!!ot. \V,•'#-(,t. looker. Shields. Meii;iv u. C. f:|vn>-. -ben'-. Perry. Cofter ; Walsh. .lull. Stunner and Smith. } T." iii'iior i"p mateTi T-rannki v. . \n:-Mird. to lmve bnen plaved nt Nr-w I p:v>enufb fr-i I?'.- l.ltti hn« been | till Saturday. 17th insf.. mi 1 Western Park.