FOOTBALL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 109, 16 August 1910, Page 8

FOOTBALL.

AUCKLAND REP. TEAM. j I»v Telegraph.—-Press Association. Auckland. Monday. The following players have been chosen to represent Auckland against Wellington next SaturdayO'Leary, Stewart, Mayer. Murray, Wickes, Power, Morse, Hall. Tyler, Sellars, Francis, Cunningham, Maguire, Hayward. and Wylie.

PLAYERS DISQUALIFIED. Dunedin, Last Niglit. I At a .meeting of the Otago Rugby Union to-night, Eckholl', a member" of the Alhambra senior team, was disqualified until the end of the first round of 1!)11 for indiscriminate kicking in a match against Dunedin on the 6th inst. Partridge (Dunedin Club) was suspended until the end of' 1912 for kicking in the scrum and punching MGPougall (Alhambra). ' , ...

i matches elsewhere. i if . . " |' Dunedin, August lfl. feplendid weather prevailed to-day for the' football matches. The senior matches were brought to a conclusion and Alhajnbra sustained the first defeat of tlie' season, Zingari-Riehmond defeating them'Jiy 18 points 'o 12. Southern (14). drevi'.with University (14); Union (G) drew with Dunedin (6); Taieri Rovers (0) beat Port Chalmers (■nil); Kaikorai (3) beat Pirates (nil). Alhambra win the banner, with Zin-gari-Richmond runners-up. Christchureh, August IS. Old Boys beat Merivale, who had »een leaders for the championship iby 10 points to 3. Christchureh beat Sydenham in a fast game by ID points to 7. Linwood beat Marist Brothers by 6 points to 3. Albion beat Canterbury College by 20 points to 3. Merivale's defeat gives Albion the 1 senior championship hy half a point.

IN DEFENCE OF MANAWAIU. At a dinner held at Levin on Saturday, Mr. Southey Fowler, president of the Horowhenua Rugby Union, who had accompanied the Ma-nawatu team to Taranaki, declared that the treatment of the team by Taranaki made him for the first time feel ashamed to have been an ex-Taranaki man, while the charges now brought against the team by the hotelkeeper, through the Taranaki .Union, were of his personal knowledge absolutely false. Mymott, Milne, M'Leod, Stohr, and Slattery, of Taranaki, and two hotel employees occupied the same room as the eight Manawatu men against whom' the disgraceful charges had been brought. He, Himself and others had been in the room in tie morning, and all these could testify that the statements were astounding lies—the worst which he had ever seen in his long experience of football. Mr. Hoben, president of the Manawatu Union, said that he had investi gated the charges, and found them absolutely untrue and extremely discreditable to those who made them. ihe matter was not going to rest there.

j THE TARANAKI REPS. Sir, —Ivindly allow me sufficient space to commend the attitude you take in to t)he Tarana*i rep. team, and particularly in regard to the selector's choice of beef and brawn in preference to brains. Are the lessons of the past few years to have no effect? It is a long time since we had a Taranaki pack with any real dash. I think I could name several forwards, and one or two of them play for the New Plymouth clubs, wlio could with advantage replace two of the lumbering players who laboured up and down the field on Saturday. To mention names, however, might set the face of the selector against them, so I refrain. But I would just like to say to Mr. Malone, "Get some forwards with in them."— I am, ete., NINETY-FIVE.