FOOTBALL NOTES.
(By "Half-Back.")
The play-off for the Third-class Championship between Red Stars and Carterton will be played next Saturday.
By the end of the season (states the Timaru Herald) at least a dozen Unions will owe South Can. terbury a visit, as against two outstanding. Included amongst the latter is Wairarapa. - Now that the club football is practically over in New Zealand the following list of Unions and the teams tha have won their senior competitions might be interesting \>y. kiand, Pjnaonby; North Taranun/, Stratford; South Taranaki, Waimate; Dunedin, Alhambra; Canterbury, Merivale; Ashburton; Southern Cross; North Wairoa, Aropohue; Greymouth, Star; Invercargill, Waikiwi; Palmerston North, Kia Toa; Bush, Nireaha. As an indication of the hold r.f Northern Unionism in Australia, it may be mentioned that a crowd of 8000 turned out to see a Sydney club match Newtown v. Glebe; £l6O waa taken at the gates, and as £97 was taken at the same ground a week earlier, club footbpll finance is bcoming.
The Marlborough Express reckons that the Marlborough rep. forwards would take a power of beating anywhere in New Zsaland, and that the are the "hottest proposition that it could be the lot of any provincial team to bump up against." Whew. The Sydney Referee says that tne Kugby Union game has fallen back to its position of 25 years ago. Whether this will be permanent depends on the League's management and the Union's inclination to change the laws of Rugby in the future. If the Rugby Union's laws be not still further changed it must sink permanently into number two position, provided the League management be fearless, judicious and in keeping with Northern Union management in England. As far as Sydney is concerned, the mudernised Rugby, 13 a side, has come to stay. An Auckland paper says that "the local team is the best that can be procured, and they should give a good account of themselves." As the Englishmen defeated this side by 52 ty 9, the backwardness of the Northern Union game in New Zealand may be accurately gauged. It is reported at Dunedin, that in a match on a recent Saturday the Albany Street School scored 74 to to nil against the Moray Place school, every member of the team scoring. The losing team numbered 17. There was a time when Taranaki was wont to be called the champion Inter-Provincial team of the Dominion. They are feeling that way in the butter province just now, and, in any case, they are positive that they wi'l win more matches than they lose in the forthcoming representative series.
As seen by a Dunedin critic—'Kaipara is a Rugby" freak, from whom anything might happen. He is a contortionist and a dancing master, who wriggles like an eel, and who executes a pas eeul with the enemy clutchuig frantically at his garments."
Among the players in the Auckland Northern Union team against the Englishmen was F. Jackson, the member of the Anglo-Welsh combination who was recalled by the English Rugby Union before that tour was half-finished, on a charge of profess-
ionalism.
The English Rugby team in Argentina were christened "Whites"* by the Buenos Aires people, as they wore white with a narrow black armlet.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10066, 13 August 1910, Page 3
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