FOOTBALL.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2055, 22 May 1896, Page 3

FOOTBALL.

&9 tha Clnistcharcji First Fifteon will 'bo pitying ihe Pirates on Moivlny, nnd «s many of the Akaroa team olijt'ct t> ipliiyinß "iigninst a ppernid tenm. ments are being made to play Merivsile instead. The frllowins: is the team' -•selected'to go to Christchurdi;•:—Vangioni, Buchanan. Tripe, Thompson, Cun-; Tiingham, Wight (Captain), Batriford, Narbpjj Newbiggan, Anderson, Mitchell, Lelievve, Goodwin, 'Kcsrney, and Perliami r Wo h&te received the followingcorres'pondence— Ni lti —In Tuesday's issue I noticed a letter from the Captain rif the 'Leßon s 'Football Club, stating fhat 'the 'referee; Should put the ball in the scrummage i 'I sbsllbe pleased if he 'will quote anything in the laws of the game, or even allowing, the Referee to tou<ih the ball, Let me draw his attention to Rale 11, which Tans as'follows : " A free kick, by w«y ■of penalty, shall be awarded, on a claim ! by the , opposite side, if any player having; 'the'ball, does Ddt immediately pat it in front df him, on it ; being held." As to the alteration of the score, Mrs Oldridge, of coarse, knows that a re'ferte's decision , can oalybs over-ruled by.. 'Ihe Rugby Union. Hoping that the: matter may now be allowed to rest. —' "Youra &c, Frank Wight, Oapt. A.F.C. { Sir,—l wish to-state that the football ■snatch Le Bon's v. Okain's was a draw, •not a win by 1 point as stated in youri paper. The game was as follows: —, •Okain's, (*1 try) 3 points ; Lβ Bon's, t('l goal from ft ; penalty kick) 8 points.; - c G. W. Wkstrop, f Referee, i