RUGBY FOOTBALL.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17977, 24 March 1930, Page 2

RUGBY FOOTBALL.

TWO SENIOR TEAMS. POSITION OF OLD BOYS. MATTER LEFT TO COMMITTEE. Last season the Old Boys’ Football Club caused a great deal of comment in local Rugby circles by entering two teams in the Hamilton senior Rugby competitions. This season there has been a great amount of talk as to whether the club would repeat its venture, and at the annual meeting of the club on Friday the matter was fully discussed. When the discussion commenced it was easily noticed that the club would not unanimously decide to enter two teams as they did last year, and a definite understanding was not reached. In referring to the matter the chairman, Air W Tanner, invited one of the members of the last year’s B team to place before the meeting Die feeling of the team, and before long a resolution was put to the meeting that the club would not enter a senior B team unless better conditions than by the Hamilton Rugby Union. The matter was freely discussed, the feeling being that the B team last year certainly did not disgrace themselves, and were certainly no junior team. The resolution was later amended to one that no Senior B team be entered under any circumstances, but this was defeated. Speakers for and against the entering of two teams admitted that the Senior B team, despite the pessimistic views of the Rugby public, made a fine showing, and could certainly not have played in the junior competition. As it was, there were two teams in the-junior competitions, the Junior A combination winning the A competition. If the B team of last year were placed in the junior competition this year the competition would be so onesided that there would he no interest in it. Finally a motion that the entering oi' two teams lie left to the management committee, when the numerical strength of the senior players was-as-certained was carried by a small majority. AUCKLAND SELECTOR TO RETIRE. AUCKLAND, Monday. When the annual meeting of the Auckland Rugby Union is held on TuesTuesday it will probably be announced that Air V. R. .Meredith, who was Auckland’s sole selector last year, and has occupied that position on and ofi for the past eight years, will not he available for the position. "Yes; I’ve had enough,” was Mr Meredith’s reply when asked if it were true that he had stated his intention of retiring from the office of selector. It was somewhere about 1922 that Mr Meredith first took up the duties of sole selector in Auckland, and at once players became aware that his methods differed from the orthodox. Since then Auckland has become familiar with his ideas on Ihe subject. _______