FOOTBALL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8486, 13 July 1907, Page 6

FOOTBALL.

THE "ALL BLACKS." By Telegraph—Press Association. Received July 12, 10.2-1 a.m. SYDNEY, July 12. The following team will meet the "All Blacks" to-morrow:—Back, Dix; threequarters, Messenger, Smith, Russell, Waddell; halves, Mandible and Wood; forwards, Rosewell, Griffin, Barnett, MeCue, Burge, Row, Hughes, and lVlurnin. The arrival of the New Zealand team, yesteixlay, maiked the anniversary of the departure of the first New South Wales team to New Zealand iwenty-five years ago. The Sydney Morning Herald, in a leaderette devoted to the "All Blacks," says the interest in healthy sport will receive strung stimulus and encouragement by the visit of the New Zealand footballers, and the local feeling, amounting almost to enthusiasm, it has excited. With regard to the New Zealand professional football team, it is stated ±h't eight members of the New Zea-

land team now in Australia will join the combination for Home on their return. Rover A defeated Rover B, at Carterton, on Thursday, by six points to three. Tries . were scored for Rover A by McGuinness and J. Daley, and V. Fairbrother scored for Rover B. A match will be played on the Showgrounds, on Thursday next, between the employees of Mes3rs W. Lett and C. E. Daniel!.