The Gleaner Business House football player/coach Rudolph Speid will be confirmed as the new president of the Kingston and St Andrew Football Association (KSAFA) at the rescheduled biennial congress on Thursday at HEART Trust/NTA, Oxford Road, starting at6 p.m.

The election was scheduled to take place yesterday but had to be postponed due to the passage of Tropical Storm Gustav over the island.

Speid, a former treasurer of the Jamaica Football Federation in the Crenston Boxhill administration and current treasurer of KSAFA, was nominated unopposed by affiliate clubs for the post of president a month ago to succeed Ambassador Stewart Stephenson, who is not seeking re-election.

Most of the other posts on Speid's slate have been nominated unopposed as well, including Stephen Bell as first vice-president and Brian Rose as treasurer.

However, the posts of second vice-president and general secretary are up for grabs. Three have been nominated for second vice-president - Jacqueline Cowan, Carlton 'Spanner' Dennis and journalist Kenrick Barnaby. And it's a straight fight for the post of general secretary between Gregory Simms and Orville Marshall.

Speid is chairman of Cavalier Football Club.

Defending champions National Water Commission (NWC), represented by Garwaine Johnson and Duran Whyte, retained the Hermon Spoerri double wicket trophy last Sunday when they defeated Continental Baking Company (Junior Blackwood, Roland Henry) in the final at Port Esquivel.

NWC first defeated Windalco and proceeded to dispose of the highly fancied Cable & Wireless (Yanick Elliot, Horace Miller) in the semi-finals to earn their final berth.

They dismissed Continental Baking Company for 15 off four overs and, despite losing Whyte to the first ball in their reply, Johnson knocked off the required runs in 4.5 overs in making 16 for one.

Johnson and Whyte thus secured the $10,000 prize in addition to another lien on the Hermon Spoerri Trophy, which was first donated in the '70s by the late president of the Henriques Cup Cricket Board. Last year, Johnson and Fabian Forbes won it for NWC at the same venue.

Meanwhile, the two matches scheduled for today in the Business House 35-over competition have been postponed, owing to the inclement weather.

The Business House Division Two domino final between Berger and Port Authority, which ended prematurely with both teams locked at 148-all on the night of August 22 at Jacisera Park, will be continued.

Last Tuesday, the disciplinary committee of the National Association of Domino Bodies (NADB) ruled that both teams should play an additional 20 games to determine the champions.

The four-member committee of the NADB further ruled that the Port Authority player, who brought the game into disrepute by verbally abusing one of the judges after he had intervened to quell a dispute in the closing stages, be suspended for 10 matches.

In addition, the female supporter from Port Authority, who stormed into the ring and assaulted the judge in question, was banned for two years from all matches run under the auspices of the NADB. Port Authority was also cautioned by the committee.

Humbert Davis, official of the NADB, said the additional games would be played at the premises of the sponsors, Jamaica Electrical Technologies, 36 Lyndhurst Road on a date to be announced.

Tank-Weld, meanwhile, won the Division One final on the same night, dethroning the defending champions Seprod in winning by 12 points, 125-113, to complete the double.

Division Two league champions Jamaica National Building Society, defeated knockout champions Petrojam 2-0 at Barbican playing field last Tuesday, to set up a date with Division One champions, Carib Cement, in the Champion of Champions KSAFA/Business House football final.

Kimani Young and Damion Jones were the scorers for the Alrick Clarke-coached JNBS.

The final was scheduled for last Thursday but had to be postponed owing to the inclement weather. It has been rescheduled for Tuesday at Barbican playing field, starting at 5 p.m.

The winner will take on the St Ann Division One Business House champions (yet to be decided) to determine the all-island Champion of Champions.