FOOTBALL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 97, 13 April 1908, Page 3

FOOTBALL.

It is ,sii<! that (leorge T\lur. one ol Auckland's "All Jilacl;-." i, 'jjoing to ;u-t a- ;i referee this reason. Mi-DiilV. an Auckland ami Thameal i forward ni a tew \ i\i rago. i- leaving fur America shortly. It wa- a' it country football match. The reloree hail ju-t sent (lile- oil tlu' lii'lcl lur deliberately fouling. Instantly the olll■ ■ r team sent "11' another man with him. "Why do that;" asked ih<: referee. "Von can have liftcen nn'ii, though the other side will only play fourteen." iui>tain was linn as a rock. "If yun think.'' ho said,

"that we're going to allow Hilos to get into that dressing-room aloue, all among our watches and money, you're pretty badly mistaken." The .Maori, of liotli islands are very anxious to -ocure a match with the I'.ni:lisit footballers,. and negotiation- to that end hav,. been in progress between -Mr. C. 1!. I'arata and the -Sew Zealand Uugby Union. Mr. l'arata has 1 informed that the Union would willingly do what it could to arrange the match, lint the itinerary has already been drawn up. and the' matter must he left to the visitors. There is ju-t a chance that a match may bo arranged lor Kotonia during the visitors' -tay there. It was at Kotorua that tlio last Kngliah team played a natiu lil'teen. but in the proposed event Clio Maori- would bo represent alive of Ihe whole Dominion, and W >uld not he merely a local one. It i- -aid that out of the fifteen, ten would be iiiterprm incial player-.