FOOTBALL.
The Woodville Senior football team bet Aotea (Maoris) by 19 points to nil, on Wednesday, and won the Hunter Challenge Shield. . The English tour of the Northern Union "pro" football team of New Zealand, as mentioned in the south by W. Johnston, a returned member of the last professional team, is to be financed by a Taranaki man and an Aucklander, Johnston having a voice in the management. The team Will be provisionally selected shortly ■in Auckland, .where the syndicate will meet to make preliminary arrangements. The fmal selection will be made in August of next year. After a lively game football players have been known to leave the ground minu3 a few molars, but the committee of the Otago Rugby Football Union was called upon the other evening (says the Otago "Daily Times" to adjudicate in a case wherein a player had lost his
teeth in the Caiisbrook dressing shed. It appeared ihat the teeth were movable, and that, for fear of accidents, the player had left them in his coat pocket. After the game he found the pocket rifled and the teeth missing. Eventually it was decided that the union could accept no responsibility in the matter.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9544, 16 July 1909, Page 6
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200FOOTBALL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9544, 16 July 1909, Page 6
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