UNPLEASANT INCIDENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 243, 14 October 1935, Page 14

UNPLEASANT INCIDENT.

There was an unpleasant incident in the Rugby match between Grafton and Manu kau at Onehunga on , the refe , Air Tj II Briggs, ordering WlcMuna, our of "the Manukau forwards, off the S rou shortlv before half-time. A section of the Manukau spectators took the and there was a good deal of hoot in,,, an calls for the Manukau team to walk off the lield. \nart from the incident, the game was attractive and free from anything deservin ß of censure. , Mr Briggs alleged that he eaw Wicklund strike at one of the Grafton forwards, and for that reason he took the action that he did He did not see any cause for "ick lund's action, but one of the Grafton forwards later said that he had kicked Wicklund accidentally. The incident, and the fact that Manukau had to plav the rest of the game a man short, robbed the match of a good deal of '" Officials of the ManuKau Club expressed deep regret at the incident, and Panted out that Wicklund was a player who, on no Other occasion, had incurred the displeasure of a referee. _____ A correspondent signing himself Interested Vice-president," writes to say that ft was not Wicklund, but his mate, Muir, that was kicked, apparently deliberately arousing Wieklund's resentment. The writer adds that a warning to Wicklund would have suiheed, and that it is unfair to blame all the crowd for the remarks of a few. "If all the clubs had the keen support the Kovcrs have, and the workers outside the club officials, wlint a Rugby city we would have," he adds.