FOOTBALL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 285, 25 April 1911, Page 5

FOOTBALL

NEW ZEALAND RUGBY UNION. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. A meeting of the management committee of the New Zealand Rugby Union was held this evening. The Dannevirke sub-union wrote appealing against the decision of the Hawke's Bay Union in removing the , disqualification on a Woodville player , who was alleged to have used threaten- . ing language to a referee last July at a match at which he was a spectator.— It was decided that the committee could not reopen the matter, as it already has had the case before it. It was resovlcd to remove the disqualification of five years imposed on W. Grant, Marlborough, in 1009. Grant is now a resident of Hastings, and the' application was made by the local union and recommended by the Marlborough Union. A letter was received from the Hawke's Bay Union asking the Union to give instruction as to the position of the union in regard to players who have taken part in practice games under the Northern Union rules. The letter stated that the men were induced to play practice games, which, it was represented, would not interfere with their amateur status. The Northern Union officials were very active in Hawke's Bay, and had induced two senior clubs and one junior club to recede—lt was decided to refer the Hawke's Bay Union to the rules as to professionalism, and to state that the committee would be prepared to consider and give them information on any particular case. Tt was decided that the Union could not reinstate C. A. Gray, a Southern player, who played the Northern football game during a visit to England, and who applied for reinstatement as an amateur. An application form Te Aute College Old Boys for permission to tour Australia this or next year was referred to the incoming committee, although the present committee could not recommend the tour. THE STAR CLUB. Mr. L. 0. Hill, club captain, presided over an attendance of about twenty members at a general meeting of the Star Club held last night to consider a notice of motion re playimr a senior team on Saturdays instead of Thursdays. It was resolved that the resolution passed at the annual meeting re playing on Thursday be rescinded, and it was then decided to accept the recommendation of the committee to enter the senior team in the Saturday competition, and not in the Thursday competition. A first and second iimior team will, however, play in tins Thursday competition. A meeting of first and ■second juniors will be held on Friday evening next in the Town Hall, when all intending members are requested to attend. WELLINGTON MATCHES. The football season opened in Wellington on Saturday, when matches resulted as follows: Oriental 24, Old Boys 0; St. James 0, Wellington 3; Southern 13, Victoria College o;"Poncke 25, Melrose 0; Petone 11, Athletic 3.