IN THE KING'S NAME.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 199, 23 August 1926, Page 8

IN THE KING'S NAME.

Play in the first grade Rugby Union match between Manly and V.M.C.A. at Sydney recently was rather strenuous at times. Perhaps this may be accounted for by the fact that a policeman was playing in the forwards of each. team. On one occasion Y.M.C.A.'s constable got away, but found his progress blocked by his confrere in the Manly team. A tussle for possession ensued, which ended in the referee ordering a scrum. A spectator caused some amusement by shout ing to the Manly player: "Why didn't you call on him to surrender in the King's name?"

In olden cricketing days the Lord's ] pitch was notorious. In the fifties and' sixties, fur instance, it was ridge and '■ furrow to such an extent that in IS.')9 ■ Surrey, and in ISiiP. Sussex, refused, on ' >afotv first principles, to play there. . As ..no expert remarked, it resembled a ■ billiard table as regards the pockets. 1 In IS7O there was tragedy. For ("ieorge j Summer?, playing for Notts against the ' M.C.C., was stnu'k on the head by a 1 ball from Plat is, and never recovered ; from the blow. In this case it -was thought that the ball pitched on a stone, '■ but, whatever the cause, Daft, who was j the next man in, went out to bat with, a towel bandaged round his forehead.