FOOTBALL.
THE POPULAR PASTIMES. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Chriatchurch, Last Night. The president. of the Canterbury Rugby Union (Mr. A. £. G. Rhodes) lias * no great fear of the Northern Union game usurping the popularity of amateur Rugby in New Zealand. Referriag to the & test movement at the Rugby Union annual smoke concert last nigut, Mr. Rhodes said there was not sufficient population to enable the Northern game to make much headway. He did not want to say anything against those wao were promoting the new game, but he thought it would be a bad day ior football in. the Dominion if the Northern game made any gfeat progress. The decadence 01 cricket was pointedly referred to by Mr. J. R. Evans at the; Canterbury Rugby Union annual social gathering last night. The speaker said that in 1874 he saw a Canterbury team defeat an Australian eleven. They could not do it now, yet in New Zealaud they had gained world-wide honors in other branches of athletics. Cricket in New Zealand was year* behind the times, and it was all due to a lack of esprit de corps and a want of application to the splendid summer pastime.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 249, 14 October 1908, Page 3
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196FOOTBALL. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 249, 14 October 1908, Page 3
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