FOOTBALL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 42, 11 August 1911, Page 5

FOOTBALL

THE VICTORIAN GAME. IBy flkMi Brew AflMcfettaft-Oopyright. Adelaide, August 10. At the football carnival South Australia defeated New South WaJee, and Victoria beat Westralia. ■ i THE ASSOCIATION GAME. DEFINITION OK AMATEUR. ? Sydney, August 10. • * The New South Wales Football A»- i sociation, under British Association : rules, has withdrawn from the Sporting ! . Federation and adopted a new amateur definition, which permits professionals in other branches of sport to play a« amateurs, provided they are not paid for football, riavers from outside the Commonwealth are deemed to be ama- . teurs on landing in Australia. o

THE HUGBY GAME. THE RANFURLY SHIELD. AucMand, Thursday. V'l The Rugby Union deckled to offer . Poverty Bay September 16 for the Ban- 'f furly Shield match. , If " NEW ZEALAND . RUGBY UNION. ;

Wellington, Last Night. The Management Committee of the New Zealand Rugby Union met to-night. ;■ The Auckland Union are finding that the Ranfurly Shield entails upon them a responsibility which they find irksome. The rules regarding challenges for the shield make it obligatory on the hold-.' ers to play any team challenging on any day available, and the result is that local cup fixtures would, if the Union permitted, be seriously interfered with. They have received challenges from South Auckland, Poverty Bay and Marlborough, none of which unions can put a team in the field which might have a reasonable, chance of taking away the shield. Visiting teams to Auckland get a liberal share of a big gate, and there is more than a suspicion that the challenges are meant for nothing more than to give teams a cheap trip. Dates have been fixed for ..South Auckland and Poverty Bay, but the Auckland Union have not offered Saturday to Marlborough this year. The cup fixtures at Auckland are interesting, and the local union thinks it very hard to be compelled to give up their own good gameß and, incidentally, good gates for the sake of satisfying frivolous challenges. An Auckland team also is to go on tour this year, and they cannot play any more challenge games until late* in September. This is open to the serious objection that the grounds at Auckland are \ too hard for the Winter games at the end of September. These niattcrs we're discussed by the committee, and it was argued by Mr. G. H. Dixon; on behalf of Auckland, that his team should not be asked to play more than two special challenge matches this year. Marlborough Union sent on their challenge through the New Zealand Union because they had had no reply from Auckland, and' it was decided to ask the Auckland Union to arrange, if possible, a convenient date for a match with WrU borough, say, on September 23.

The Patron of the Taiunaki Northern Union Rugby League (Mr. A. J. Mcintosh) entertained the Wellington and Taranaki teams at luncheon* at the Grosvemor Hotel Tost evening. wore made by Mr. T. Smith (secretwr of the Taranaki League), Mr. W. J. Pemtt (secretary of the Wellington League), and were acknowledge by Mr. Mcintosh in a neat speech. •