The Grafton, Football Club were making arrangements to play the Mercury Bay Club, hub as, the latter are now unable to visib Auckland the Graftonibes are talking of visiting Huutly on September lObh to play the country club. 'A Close Watcher' writes: — 'After Saturday's play and on many previous matches, Gaudin has shown himself to be one of Auokfand's besb three-quarters, and many aren of opinion he should be .among our reps. With Jervis, Peace, and Gaudin three • quarters, and Herrold, Braund, and Elliott halves, we would have a back- division good enough to represent any province.' The Selection Committee have evidently made the baft" of a bad job in picking the teams for" ftwiay'a1 practice match. On paper the Probable team looks weak, bub with Marshall, Peace, and Roberts on the wounded and sick list, Herrold in a defiant humour, and tb& Newton contingenb (Mur ray, Donald and Mills) naving retired for the season, I doubt whether- the team could be much improved, on. Bub why nob geb the assistance of Stewarb, Brownlee, and Paul, frond the Thariias, arid coach Samp son anil Gilleb, of Waikato, up to our for wards' tactics^ and give them a trial ? Ib is with, regret that I learn fchab F. Peace, the Suburban crack, and our rep. centre three-quarber> has met with an acci dent to his hand, which is likely to prevent his appearance on the football field! again this season. Ib appears fchab during the progress of the Auckland-Tauranga match, Peace felt with his hand under him, and that limb immediately gave him great pain, and became much swollen* Peace, up to this week, treated tho hand for a sprain, bub on examination by a doctor it has been found that two of the bones are broken. This accident is a eevere blow to Suburbs as well as the Auckland province, for we can ill afford to lose such a man as Peace. ThiS Senior Championship. The re3alts of lasb Saturday's Cup matches ha4v£ wrought more changes in the positions of the clubs' competing in the senior championship. Parnell'a victory has brought them to the top of the poll again, while City have also moved up bo fourth position, Grafton and Suburbs taking a retrogressive step down the ladder. 