FOOTBALL

Taranaki Daily News, 2 March 1922, Page 5

FOOTBALL

SIGNS OF THE SEASON. THE STAR CLUB'S MEETING. PAST SEASON REVIEWED. The annual meetins of the Star Football Club was held at the Soldiers' Club last night, there being an attendance of about 4® members. In the absence in Auckland of tho president (Mr. S. J. Smith), from whom an apology was received. Mr B. Spence presided The annual report for the season 1»21 stated: In presenting the report and bal-ance-sheet your committee desires to congratulate the members on the successful issue of the season, having a credit balance of £&6 2s fid. liabilities nil. The teams' Interest and positions held in various competitions were: Senior, R grade, runners-up; second grade, third; third grade, fourth, fourth grade, second. Our committee desires to congratulate C. S. Dunford on gaining a place in the representatives. The annual matches for the Dan O’Brien and Carbine side Ida were played and resulted in our seniors being defeated by three points (a ;>c!ialty goal) for the former and our juniors comfortably retaining the latter. Our success in the different grades Is no doubt attributed to the keenness displayed- by tl e players, who have fought theli nintcli.s very hard, and under better conditions with improved facilities for night training will continue to show they are worthy exponent* of the game. Congratulations are extended t*» jdayers who have had tie distinct lun n,’ winning medals, viz., C. S. Dunford (senior, donated by Mr. J. Hoskin). H. Hoffmann (fourth grade, donated by Mr. Hughes). The club expended the sum of £2.” Jss for insurance of four teams, and proportionately levied the players for the return of the sum Involved, but some of the cneinbers met with, additional expense in other items, so that only £9 17s was collected, leaving a deficiency of £l5 18s to be borne by the club. Tills matter will Lave to be explicitly arranged for the coming season. The stability of the club is due to the interest and efforts of the members nf the executive committee, who have nrde'.’i worked to ensure improvement In whau. r duty assigned to them. A word of praise is due to -the managers of the various teams, who have shown enthusiasm towards the welfare of the players. The club wishes to thank the ladies and committee who helped to make the ball a success, the smoke concert committee, the donors of medals, Mr. S. J. Smith (president), for two match balls, the Press, the Referees’ Association, the Central School Committee for the use of gymnssium, and all who helped the club during the year. The report and bn lance-sheet were adopted without discussion. ELECTION OF OFFICERS. Officers were elected as follows: Patron. Mr. E. Dockrill (re-elected) ; president, Mt G. W. Palmer; vice-presidents, Messrs. 8. G. Smith, M.P., L. Hoffmann, A. Page, F. Richards, A. Ladner, J. Avery, J. Arthur, F. Faber, R. Barlow, J. J. Lomas, T. C. List, J. Kissick, J. W. Curtis, R. Mascall (re-elect-ed), L. A. Nolan; executive, Messrs. T. O’Conno)!, H. J. Patterson, W. Deane, T. Harley, J. Bowler, E. Hurley, W. Stumiey, A. Betts, P. Hill; joint secretaries, Messrs. J. A. Clarke and P. A. Sims; club captain, Mr. R. Spence; vice-captain, Mr. H. J. Patterson ; delegates to Taranaki Rugby Union. Messrs. Sims and Clarke (in the event of Mr. Clarke being unable tn accept the appointment Mr. Patterson was appointed as substitute); hon. auditor, Mr. A. L. Humphries. GENERAL. A vote of thanks was accorded last year's president (Mr. S. J. Smith) for bis services. The subscription for honorary members was fixed at 10s for the season and 2s 6d for all playing members. The matter of insurance was left for the executive to arrange. It was decided to nominate one team in each of the first, second, third and fourth grades. The date of the official opening practice , was fixed for March 11. It was resolved that a selector be appointed for each grade, to confer with the captain and vice-captain of each grade in selecting the teams. Selectors were appointed as follows: Messrs. A. Bartlett (senior), J, Clarke (second grade), T. Billing (third), P. Sheppard (fourth). It waj decided to approach the Central School Committee for the use of their gymnasium for night training, ns was done during the latter part of last season. The delegates to the Rugby Union were instructed to draw the union’s attention to the state of the shed at Western Park. An. honorarium of £2 2s was voted io eacn of the last season’s secretaries. (Sne guinea was donated to the Referees* Association. In proposing the vote of the chairman asked players to give the referees "a fair go” this year, as they were blamed for everything, when the fault often lay with tte players themselves, who should, in any case, accept the referee’s decision na final. A* discussion topk place on the question as to whether weight instead of nge should be the deciding factor- in placing pin yers in the lower grades. Eventually it was decided that a recommendation be made to the Rugby Union that the age for third grade nUw era be raised from 20 to 21. Mr. T. Hurley intimated Jhat he would donate a medai for the best all-round junior player. A hearty vote of thnnks was accorded the donor. Several new members were elected. A hgarty vote of thanks was accorded the rotiring officers and all who had helped the club during the year, the chairman. wli«i moved the resolution, saying that the ]».-■»< season had been a fairly successful one tte hope was ex pressed that the oomi-ik. season would see some, nt least, of the Star team at ’*th> u>s & SBA 7 -