On The Ball

Chief interest at present is focussed on the North v. South Island Varsities game to be held at Christchurch on July 16. Of the seventeen players selected to make the trip, Victoria has provided six, Massey three and Auckland eight. The following are the Victoria representatives; M. F. Radich (centre), A. S. Macleod (wing), R. Jacob (half), O. S. Meads (lock), R. T. Shannon (side-row), and S. S. Kurtovich (emergency forward). J. P. Murphy, formerly of Victoria, is also in the team.

R. B. Burke was selected for the Wellington rep. XV against Canterbury on July 5 and M. F. Radich was emergency back.

The chief features of the play on the single Saturday which has permitted rugby, have been a much improved display by the Senior A's a really unlucky loss by the B's, the maintenance of the 3A XV's unbeaten record, and the 3C side's victory over Rongotai.

This last was by the excellent margin of thirty-two points, the final score being 35-3, so that the team seems to have found its feet with a vengeance.

The 3A side played excellent football to defeat St. Patrick's College" (Town) by nine points to three, despite the absence of one or two key players.

The Senior B XV lost to Marist by six points to eight—a real hard-luck story—and the Senior A's, with a little more luck, might have defeated the redoubtable Petone side on their home ground.

Two items of interest are: (1) Canterbury College have invited the Club to sent both Senior A and Junior A sides to Christchurch on Wednesday. August 6. (2) The Central Hawkes Bay Sub-Union has invited the Colts XV to play Te Aute College at Waipukturau on August 23 or 30.