FOOTBALL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8473, 28 June 1907, Page 5

FOOTBALL.

The following team will represent the Masterton Juniors against Featherston, at Carterton, to-morrow : Phillips, Hatch, Cook, Latimer, Jackson. Holmes. Henderson, Hanley, MacMahon, Lett, Tanner, Hounslow, Miller, Richards and McHattie. Emergencies, Selby and Meredith. There were no matches playedjfor the Wairarapa Thursday Senior Championship, yesterday afternoon. Rover B and Eketahuna teams journeyed to Masterton to play, but the Eketahuna captain considered that the ground was not in a fit state for the match, and forfeited to the Rovers. Liberals won their match against Albions by default, as,the latter could not get a team to make the trip to Carterton.

THE PROFESSIONAL TEAM.

By Telegraph—Press Association. Received June 27, 11.37 p.m. J SYDNEY, June 27. The statement that the promoters of the New Zealand professional team are contemplating strengthening their forces by the addition of Sydney players has occasioned some comment in Rugby circles. Several officials made it tolerably certain that the New South Wales Union would not fall into the fatal error made by the New Zealand Rugby Union of attempting to bind players by a statutory declaration, and that if anyone under the jurisdiction of the Union saw fit to go he would simply have an effective send-off in the way of disqualification. Mr Green, a member of the Management Committee of the Union, said that he did not think much help would be givjn here. For his part, if any player showed the least inclination to go, he would say, "Let him go at once; we will be better without him." Mr Hill, Secretary of the Union, said that most of the New South Wales players were in fairly good positions, and played the game for the pure love of it. He had no anxiety about the movement getting a hold in this State. Mr Howe, Secretary of the Metropolitan Rugby Union, believed that there was not the slightest chance of their players taking on the trip. At the most, a player would make £2OO for six months' work with attendant risks. The-bulk of the money would go to the promoters. It looked to him as if an attempt was being made to push some of the trouble stirred up in New Zealand on to them, but if occasion arose his Union would take action quick and lively to deal with the men who encouraged the proposal.