FOOTBALL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 227, 13 February 1913, Page 8

FOOTBALL.

AUSTRALIAN TOURING TEAMS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Sydney, February 12. An Australian Rugby Union team will visit New Zealand in the coming season, as also will Sydney University. GRADED DISTRICTS. Now that the proposed triangular tests have been dropped, Mr. McLeod, of the Taranaki team, has come forward with a suggestion that is well wor,thy of consideration (says the Auckland Star). Writing to an Auckland enthusiast, Mr.' McLeod states that he is endeavoring to arrange for a Taranaki A and B representative team. The A team would play Auckland, Wellington, Canterbury and' Otago, and perhaps Wanganui, and the B team, South Auckland, Thames, nawke's Bay, Wairarapa, Manawatu, etc. No doubt, continues Mr. McLeod, a number of these B teams would be too good for Taranaki, but it would mean more men gaining representative honors, and more players continuously in training till the conclusion of the season, and if the New Zealand Rugby LTnion could be induced to grade the various teams officially, it would be a decidedly good thing for football. There is no doubt, says Mr. McLeod, there is too much football that is played by the same teams. Last year Taranaki • played 10 matches/some hard, some soft, and if a B team had been engaged in the latter games, they would have been much more strenuously contested, and much more interesting. Mr. MeLcod's views are certainly progressive, and it is to be hoped he will push the matter forward.