FOOTBALL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 184, 25 July 1908, Page 6

FOOTBALL.

TODAY'S TEST .MATCH. By Telegraph.—* was Association. Auckland, Lust Night. The British team, which will not be iinnlly picked till to-morrow, will be chosen from the following:—Jackett, Dyke, McEvedy, Vassall, J. I'. Jones, .1. U Williams, F. Chapman, Morgan, Tumi Jones, Davey, Harding, Morgan, Down, Hind, Dibble, Archer, Smith, and Williams.

The weather is showery, but shows signs of clearing. Considerable interest is being taken in the game. The New Zealand team is in the best of health, and confident of victory.

The following inv 'j'aranaki's remaining home matches:—Against South Cunlerlmrv, at New Plymouth, August 0: against Wellington, at New Plymouth, August 20; against Otagn, at llawera, September 10. The play-oIV l'o r the junior championship to-day between Tukapa and Opunake will lie played on the Racecourse commencing at 3 o'clock. The game was to have been played on the Rccroatbn (.'round, but in view of the heavy rains, it was decided not to run any risks of cutting-up the ground unnecessarily. The Tukapa players were desirous of playing on Western Park, but that ground'had been already secured by the Schools Union for their fixtures, which open this afternoon. Under the circumstances, the Racecourse was the oulv ground available after 3 o'clock.

At half-past 1 o'clock the Stratford and New Plymouth High Schools inert on the Racecourse ground. The Schools Union is endeavoring to arrange to lrai u boy referees to control the school matches.

At the Taranaki Rugby Union moeti'i.? mi Thursday, the appeal of the Okato Club against the rcsuii of the OkatoOpunakc match in the lirst round of the Western Division competition was further considered. The Okato Club appealed on the ground that D. O'Sullivan, who played for Opunakc, lived within the boundaries of the Pihaina Club, and was not entitled to play for Opunako. The case was a complicated one, the evidence showing that O'Sullivan apparent I v lived for half of each week in the Opunakc district and for the othnhalf in the l'ihaina district. One of ilia w itnosses submitted si declaration swo:'n before a .I.l'. that be had seen O'Sullivm working on his father's farm in the i'ihaiiia district on an average of four days in each week from lib .Mav to 2!lth June. O'Sullivan, however, refused to sign a declaration I.lml lie resided in th" Opunakc district. A similar protest was received from Hie I'ihama Club. At length the Union decided that O'Sullivan resided within the I'ihamn district, and upheld both protests, awarding the mulches to Okato and Pihaina respectively. Okato therefore became the winners of the Western Division senior championship.