FOOTBALL.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2615, 26 May 1877, Page 3

FOOTBALL.

The following letter appeared in the the New Zealand Times :—" Sir,—Beferring to the proposal that has been made by the Dunedin Football Club to hold a tournament here during the coining; football season, I would crave a space in your paper to suggest that the proposal is hardly complete enough. The Dunedin Club proposes to play Christchurch on its way up, and to play Nelson', Wellington, and Auckland here;- but it appears to me that this will not settle, or may not settle, the merits of the different teams competing.. I£ DuWedin/should be victorious in Canterbury, it would be, very well, as she would then have to hold her victory against; the other clubs ; but if, as;seems to me most likely, she should be. beaten "there,. thecomparatiTe merits of the Christchurch and the other clubs would be left: undetermined. Again, theDunedin men seem to consider that the clubs .they.have named are the best that can send representatives; but from your 1 Own knowledge of > the Wanganui play; as shown by?their match here two years ago;; and from my own knowledge of .the players* at Napier, Tarauaki, and the west coast of the Southern Island,' I tninkiancl, I haro no doubt you will, agree with me, that there can be no certainty of the leading to\tpa suggested .■by, Duuedin comprising the winning team. Let Wellington then undertake-She. tournament .on ; a larger > scale altogels?er,.ttnd! askJthe- attendance of teams from Auc]{ land, Napier, Taranaki, Wanganui X Hokitika, Nelson, Christchurch, andsDunedin. ■ Thus with eight clubs there could be played seven games, extending dyer a weeky and the-merits of all -players would be-satisfactorily settled. Then would be seen -a picture to gladden i;he eye*; of all who :beheld it, and to gladden the, ears f of: football-players throughout the Colonies.—l am, &c, An A uckLAND; .;FodTBAt.LiBE. Wellington, • May.:B-" '•■""■■■.>:'/• "•'■''■ ■'•"■-•■ ■ -■: :''U- }'-: ;■