FOOTBALL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8432, 2 May 1907, Page 6

FOOTBALL.

THE PROPOSED TEAM FOR ' ENGLAND. (Prom Our Loudon Correspondent.) LONDON, March 22. I cull the following from an evening paper of .the ,18th Inst:— A strange story has been current of \ late anent the visit of a New, Zealand team to re-establish that moribund body, the Union. t Possibly a fevv players at the of their career in the colony have cone* i zed this plan with a view to imp' iVing N their own fortunes, but they tcnow not the Northern Union, nor its ways and means. Not for a moment would any such tour be ountenanced by the New Zealand authorities, who have always stood firm for the principles of amateurism at home and abroad. The Presi■entjof the Rugby Union has himself ■ estified to Ijhe fact that in the darkjst days of Rugby Unionism, at the wne of the split, the colonies warmly iiupport'ed the upholders of the amateur crusade. The writings of Messrs ; Gallagher and Stead in "The Complete Rugby Footballer," make it clear also that New Zealand will fiave. nothing to do with the paid jlaver or his works.

it team will be picked from the following Greytown players to meet the tied Stars at Master.ton on' Saturday next:—Udy, Hendry, Haigh, Famiiton, C. Rogers, Cowan, McCracken, Scott, Morris, Tocker, Hastings, Wynes, Jury, Feast, Workman, Meldenhall, Whate.