FOOTBALL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 330, 17 June 1911, Page 7

FOOTBALL

( THE ASSOCIATION GAME. (By "Queen's Park.") / ] Now Plymouth Olub was to have I i travelled to Eltham on Thursday, but at I the last minute they received a wire declaring the match off, as the Eltham Club had failed to secura a ground. A special meeting of the Taranaki Football Association was held on Thursday at Eltham to consider the challenge from Wanganui and to discuss the complaint made by the New Plymouth Club to the New Zealand Association. It was decided to entertain Wanganui at Hawcra on Coronation Day, and it was left in the hands of the Haweia Club to make all arrangements to receive them. The team picked from North and South is as follows:—Goal, Veale (Stratford); backs, Bullock (Manaia), Haseltine (Eltham); half-backs, Lovcll (Kaponga), Stapleton (Manaia), Elliott (New Plymouth); forwards, Gwillim (New Plymouth), J. Smart (Hftwera), Spice (Hawcra), Scholfield (Stratford), Low (Kaponga). Reserves: Goal, Legg (New Plymouth); half-back, McCallum (Eltham), forward, Allen (Stratford). Mr. J. Morgan, of Stratford,. has been appointed referee for the match'. The New Plymouth Club intends to arrange a match with Hawcra, to be play- : cd half-way, but the dato is not yet < fixed. The team also intends journeying | to Auckland before the end of the season. j The following is the position of the teams in the Northern division:— "• | j u 5 v t « • g JS JS &■ h £ i-q a Pm fc o Stratford 22 00534, New Plymouth 2 110 4 22 Eltham 2 0 2 0 2 6 0 j The following will play for Rovers against Star to-day:—Pott. Grant (2),, Thompson, Reid, Webster, Ryder, Blyde, j Coker (2), Mackay, Jennings, Ellis, [ O'Neill, and Baker. Emergencies: Gray I I and Patterson. ' United having forfeited, the match I United v. Okato, arranged for to-day at I Okato, will not now take place. | • I