FOOTBALL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9527, 26 June 1909, Page 6

FOOTBALL.

Taranaki has issued a challenge to Auckland for the Kanfurly Shield^_ ;-': George"Gillettr 'Black ami actingon e j[& d] J^v}£; s > ili^E^- 7 retired from the game. m Taranaki Rugby applicationTohave the jnter-island match played at New year. Canterbury has also pu^injj claim. £- : --#H An interesting Senior be played on the Maste grounds, between The Red Star and Carterton Clubs, this afternoon. A meeting of the Red Star Football Club will be held in the YM.C. A. Building this evening, at 8 o'clock, to make arrangements for the annua! social and dance.

"The crowd was quite satisfied that the Northern Union same is without doubt the best football from a spectacular point of view.''—A Sydney comment on the New Zealand—New South Wales match. The Ponsonby (Auckland) £team, j which is to viait Australia ! ihis u : son, will leave Auckland on Monday, i July 26th, and will pi.-;y rnafcdirs uni der the auspices of the New S'juth I Wales Metropolitan Union on July 31st, August 4th, 7th, 11th and 14th. The "All Golds," according to the Sydney "Referee," contains a splendid lot of forwards in Trevarthen, M'Donald, Byrne and Sullivan. The League officials are well satisfied with the results so far, and the gross proce2ds of the first two matches amounted to £2,000, George Spencer, of Wellington, who was injured during the first New Zealand--New South Wales match, will not be likely to play again for some time, as it was found necessary to send for a doctor to attend him in the dressing room. It was feared that his jaw was broken.