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FOOTBALL.
INTERSTATE MATCHES.
VICTORIA V. SOUTH
AUSTRALIA.
Slate Selectors at/ Work.
OJiATfipioiiS of the Clubs.
Bv Ftirward.
Seeking men for s fimt, vigorous, high-
.rising side to meet the South Ausiralian
, nmbiantion at Adelaide in a fortnight'
:!;ne, the Victorian seleof.orp, Messrs. J).
win'/mh A. 15. Dnramelt and H. E. Ro-
berts have been busily 'engaged at vnri-
etif matcheii in the pass few weeks. They
ivcia present at the first half of the Es-
i.enrfon-Hichmond game last Saturday, and
later visited the North Melbourne Ciol-
iiiigwond game at. Victoria Park. To
morrow they are Lo sec the Cleelpng Rieh-
aiond and Carlton-'Colliugwood engage
ments, and from the four aides are certain
lo secure many of the players required.
1,1 the last carnival matches held at Mel
bourne Just. season the South Australian
style of play, though pretty to watch,
lacked the vigor necessary lo cope with
the football of the forceful Victorian
and the West Australian .combinations,
nid at the lime some of the South Aus
tralian critics declared that until the re
presentatives of their State were prepared
to "mix" matters with their opponents
llicy would never succeed in winning in
the inter-State arena. From the South
Australian viewpoint, therefore, the inter
pretation of the holding-thc-ball rule us
agreed upon at the last, lueetiug of the
Australian National .Football Council was
really a blessing in disguise, for Ibis sen-
son tbn South Australians have been in
troducing nil tbo vigor and tiro necessary,
aud their football has undergone such a
change that the casualty lists at Adelaide
Ibis season have been longer than ever
before. Thus Victoria can expect much
sterner opposition than they experienced
in Melbourne last season, and us the game
Is to be played ill Adelaide, the South
Australians may yet send the Victorians
back to Melbourne iu much the same
frame of mind as after the 1D23 contest,
ivhcn South Australia won by 13.14 to li.t).
Last Year's Victorian Eighteon.
When Victoria last played South Aus
tralia the following eighteen wns selected
to fake the field: —
Backe: Corbott. Don, Borryman.
Hall-backi: Chadwick, Duncan, McCormack.
Cantros: Taylor, Warno-Smlth. Gcddes.
Half-forwards: Baggott, Jerram, Rayson,
Forwards: Baker. G. Coventry, Morlarty.
Followers: S. Coventry, Rudolph.
Rover: White.
Quite a few of the above men Jiave been
displaying excellent form again Ibis season,
but. there are others who cannot expect
to gam inclusion unless they exhibit much
improved form in the games on Saturday
and Monday and on Saturday week.
Then there arc others whoso play of the
last few weeks should gain them inclusion
in the side. Tall Vosli, who has beeu
playing full hack for Eseendun this sea
son, has blossomed into u champion full
back, and has marked , so splendidly and
played with such judgment in all the
matches that unless Don, the Richmond
goalkeeper, allows particularly good form
m the next few matches, the Essendon
player1 is likely to go into the side as the
goalkeeper. Then the noted Jl. Clover, of
Carlton, who played in the 1(121 carnival
at West. Australia, aud who has bceii a
League secretary and delegate sinec, aud
who is one of the brainiest and tallest
centre half-forwards in the game, may yet
gain inclusion, and were that to happen
the selectors would overcome the difficulty
of placing their change ruckiucn at the
important post.
Last year bsforo the State side was
selected it was hinted in these columns
that Warne-Smith, the Melbourne cham
pion, would probably take the centre posi
tion, aud sucn proved to be the case. Thin
season the Melbourne captain has pluycd
a few games at the centre, and iu ouc was
about the beat. mail on tlio ground, and as
South Australia are likely to place Lill.
the two-storied Norwood player at that
position, Warne-Smith would bo tlio right
typo of opponent to hold the tall man in
. the aerial duels. But the supporters of
Greaves, the natural centre man of Gce-
loug, and Dwyer, the clever Novth Mel
bourne player, are certain to express re
sentment if their favorites are again omit
ted. Thdro arc numerous other problem
to be solved hy the selectors, and the
most difficult, secnis lo be to find a place
tor every man entitled to the trip to Ado-
laule, for there arc at least forty men
with excellent claims for inclusion. There
are "possibles" ami "probables." and
when the selectors meet the claims of
most of Ihc following aspirants uro almost
certain to be considered: —
Melbourne: Warnc-Smlth, Johnson, Taylor.
. Wiltm&n, Chadwick, Dunbar, White.
I , Collinnwnud:. A. Collier, G. Coventry.. Rowe,
| -ibbis, s. Coventry, E. Wilson.
Carlton: Duncan,' Downs. Clover,
fssendon: Vostl, Martin.
Geelong: Bakor. Hlckoy, Greaves.
Richmond: B, McCormack, Gcddes, Baggott,
Rudolph. Don.
Fbotecray: Stevens. Hopkins, Outon, Watt,
.North Melbourne: Dwyor Russ, Cameron,
foelh Molbourno: McKay, Stanbfidgo, Revillo.
lit. Kilda: Carr. Cubbins.
Filiroy: Moriorly.
Hawthorn: Sharptey.
With regard to about ten of that, num
ber the selectors should be unanimous,
'Ut thereafter the tug-of-war should com
mence, and three or four hours should lie
pint on the Saturday night before they
inally choose the side.
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