FOOTBALL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 256, 29 April 1912, Page 7

FOOTBALL

jf;|THE ASSOCIATION GAME j j-! (By "Vanguard"). I Tsjj annual meeting of the j.aranaki ', |;Foojftall Association was held last week, 'iiMidjft'as conspicuous for the enthusiasm i4>S|i||.ycd hy delegates. „J£rom what | >:tt>y% - j !iwer§j received otthe gradual, but sure, growth ...of England's national gamci th ■<j|ghoiit t'lie province, ~a~ ■pfficuhrrFp r sa .ijtfactorv, feature! being the wholehe 'ge lfjation. The ra[t rra are also on a satisfactory basis. [ITn fSrthcrjnjf Ass()ciati_qn focitbalj in such Jial iM-'bed oFßugby as'X'ew Zea la nautili"" rjiriKoters have a tough proposition to i*ak| It is only b/t&ft3kiKMy J«ticHhi'gf.'■: I'to W jpiB 1 patient establish "soccer" on a soliffll jijp' ; lir ejSof, action of the adherents "of tlie' gni|| Uirijfljbe in the uWMW'bft'efttf* catHg the sporting comniunitv, in a seiß, to the potentialit^Z^KfMt'rifisqf ccillusively to ho a, first-rate winter! .sp ogt. That/, dnctj thft'llA i ReJl»v<«.!J '#W i r 'lf# (tfilMVa hold on Taranaki is ,e\i#nced by flip example furnished by $ jington. J( rtfr Mnlj^KohS,'While the boys' ,<f •»'}' coritemßprartAsJ-fJrffpHicliiiirg.TSifJ l 711 to note extract'from tho report present- j []i; H Association, was to the effect that it ■ &• i|ja pity that the Brown Shield tourna- . neat could not be run on the EnglisHd'' Cm principle, jpo vemieyvof g'fffind f\t\W|>f <Stf»ied|nore freqjelt--1) ,|vitl||Mlif|i|| |r|,in| S , etc. m&4 ttyM it M*Wr£ ])ft*sni%«to soacm llfyl e sP° soc> grater intarest was b>ffl« shown bv tho public in alnnatches, a ljg that (]<?• contests it is hoped that even bet-' t iifcntcrest will be shown in the near f , .sfmfimmmß^mmmmm n ■thfr.mygftingr; tt lat in all probability the school teams )»i. New PlynißftfiQrtJHSliHße starting # iccer this season, and that their team more towns in Taranaki would follow 'f l Ws^ o lWm&*MMWKlJl' #Ol tier, that it w»A.*W'»*lfii«d' to hand cjver the tTTosc: boys.