FOOTBALL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9998, 19 March 1910, Page 3

FOOTBALL.

Efforts have been made for sometime to arrange for the visit of an American Universities team to Aus tralia this season. The Californians are willing, and the matter rests with the New South Wales Kugby Union. If the union could see its way clear to arrange it, the Carnival of Rugby Union football in .Sydney would be one of the greatest ever known in the annals of the game. The Americans have made a great advance as players, and being men of remarkable physique, their presence would be inspiring to the devotes of the game.

Says a Wellington writer:—Disappointment is expressed at the announcement that there is to be no visit of an Australian team to the Dominion this year, but that instead a New Zealand combination will invade New South Wsjep and Queens • land] It is generally surmised that this decision has been arrived at in, j consequence of representations by the Australian Unions that the, prog*sßS of the Northern game is a meG<WG to the welfare of the future "amateur game, and that the on?# effective weapon to combat its tnufluence and wean it uway frevra both players and the public is by bringing over an All-Black tea'm. Some people, however, iprotfettfe to see in this, arrangement a de£&e on the part of the New Zealand' Rugby Union authorities to accumulate additional funds for the

purpose of a South African tour oY , another invasion of Grea' Bri'.afn. | A British Rughy team to visit j \ South Africa this jea-i3 now prac- J tically certain. Ihe Irish ami Scottish Unions have determined to support the project. A. F. Harding, who was captain of the Anglo-Welch team that toured New Zealand about two years ago and who has been in the Dominion for some time, has joined the accountants branch of the firm of Wilford and .Levi, of Wellington. The balance-sheet of the Auckland Rugby League adopted at the annual meeting showed a profit on the 1909 seasons operations. The following officers were elected:— Committee, Messrs B. Brinham, F. Gladdling, A, Asher, and C. Linkhorn; secretary, Mr A. W. Puwley; treasurer, Mr P. Usher. Messis G. Smith and D. W. McLean were appointed honorary auditors, and Mr D. j McLean delegate to the New Zealand ' I Council. |