FOOTBALL.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 August 1921, Page 3

FOOTBALL.

NEW SOUTH WALES’ TOUR. . BAY OF PLENTY BEATEN. By Telegraph.— Press Association. Rotorua, Last Night. New South Wales easily defeated Bay ot Plenty to-day by 29 points to 3. The weather was fine and the ground fairly dry, and there was an attendance of about a thousand. The visitors’ cleverness and combination were altogether too much for the Bay team, who only scored a goal from a free kick in the first spell, and were utterly overwhelmed, particularly in the second spell. NEW ZEALAND TEAM. TO PLAY NEW SOUTH WALES. Dunedin, August 15. The New Zealand team to play New South Wales at Christchurch on September 3 is:— Backs: Evans, Ford, Mullins (Canterbury), Svenson (Wanganui), Ward (Otago), Algar (Wellington), Grierson (Auckland). Forwards; Corbett (Otago, wing), Peterson, W. Cummings (Canterbury), Carroll (Manawatu), Brownlie (Hawke’s Bay),. Whyte (Southland), Fletcher (North Auckland), Shearer (Wellington). Reserves: McCormack (Canterbury), back, Baird (Southland) forward. Seventeen men will assemble in Auckland for the second test, those who played ou Saturday, except Whyte, who will be replaced by West, of Taranaki, with E. Roberts and McLean. REFEREES FOR THIS WEEK. A GRADE. Tukapa v. Opunake, at New Plymouth, Mr. J. Johnston. Hawera v. Clifton, at Hawera, Mr. A. F. Neilson., Kaponga v. Patea, at Patea, Mr. G. H. Perkinson. Waimate v. Okaiawa, at Okaiawa, .Mr. JKiley. JUNIOR FINALS. Tho final of the junior championship between Toko and Lepperton will be played at Waitara on Saturday, commencing at 2 o'clock. On account of the High School vacation the third grade final between Stratford and New Plymouth High School, and the fourth grade final between Stratford and New Plymouth High School C, which were to have been played on Saturday, have been postponed. MATCHES AT WAREA. At Warea on Saturday the Warea school boys beat the Pungaretu school boys by 12 points to nil. Mr. C. Muir refereed. Later in the afternoon a match was played at Warea between the single and married men, the former scoring the winning try just on the call of time after a strenuous contest. THE ASSOCIATION GAME. On Saturday the Hawera "soccer" team journeyed to Stratford, and after a hard game defeated the local eleven by one goal. Magnusson punted in to Brown, who transferred to Horsburgh, and from Horaburgh’s Piper put Hawera ahead with a long shot. LAWS OF THE GAME.

Recentlj’ Mr. D. McKenzie, president of the New Zealand Referees' Association, deliver.*/! a lecture in Blenheim on the laws of the game. The Marlborough Express report, of the lecture Included the following:—The speaker referred first of all to the alleged spirit of Rugby, but he did not believe there was any spirit in the game, for the spirit of the game was in the rules, and if the game were played according to this spirit a good match would result. In passing, he referred briefly to the history of Rugby football with its origin in the playing fields of the great English public s hools and then its inception in New Zealand. Mr. McKenzie stated that he played football in 1880, and commenced to referee in 1886. Speaking of the conservafiveness of tie New Zealand Rugby Referees’ Association, he stated that during its existent**, it had only had two presidents . and |hvo secretaries. Conservativeness, he considered, was an excellent feature in tho association, for too many changes of officers brought changes of thought and numerous reforms in the rules. Before commencing to traverse the laws. Mr. McKenzie expressed ’his appreciation of the action of Che authorities here in desiring to educate their players by inviting tim (o lecture. The speaker went on to deal with tho rules In a masterly style, and the facility with which he interpreted the most difficult, points made the lecture absorbingly interesting. A wide' experience and the knack of apt illustration of his arguments made the address clear and concise, so that numerous doubts were dispelled and misunderstandings cleared away. ,