FOOTBALL.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 August 1915, Page 7

FOOTBALL.

WELLINGTON BEATS AUCKLAND. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Saturday. The Wellington-Auckland representative Jlugby football match was played here to-day, and resulted in a win for Wellington by 9 points to 5. The sky was overcast at the start, and a strong easterly wind was blowing. About halfway through the first spell rain commenced to fall, and the game was finished on slipper)' ground, and with a wet ball.

Wellington', playing with the wind, scored its nine points in the first spell. Capper kicked a penalty goal, and Blackmore and Wilson scored tries. In the second spell the Auckland team had the game won, but failed to make use of easy opportunities. Hanlon scored a try, which Clark converted. The ball was hardly out of Wellington's half in the second spell, and for most of the time play was in the visiting team's twenty-five. The work of the visiting forwards in the loose was favorably commented on.

"Following the sad news of the death from enteric fever at the Military hospital, Malta, of that fine young University forward, Tom Dennison, comes the equally sad intelligence of the death, also from enteric, of Harold Childs, the University footballer, and one of the best backs in Otago," writes the Rugby contributor of the Otago Daily Times. "Harold Childs came to the Otago University from Wellington College, \vher6 he was coached in football by an old Otago master, Mr. T. Brodie, who thought highly of his qualifications. In his first year with the Otago University team, Childs justified the promise of his college days, and developed into one of the finest all-round backs the Royal Blues ever possessed. He visited Australia in 1912 with the combined New Zealand University team, and was regarded by the critics as one of the soundest backs in that good conciliation. Childs won his representative cap in 1912, but in 1913 an illness kept him out of the game in the height of the season. The following year the war broke out, and Childs joined the Third Reinforcements. In Egypt with another wellknown University player (Sergeant Pilling) Childs joined the First New Zealand Contingent for the front, and took part, in the fighting at the landing at fiallipoli. He was twice wounded in this action, and was sent to Alexandria His chief concern then was to get back to the front, and it. was when on his way to the firing line for the second time that he was seized with enteric, to which he succumbed."