MATCH LOST

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 107, 8 May 1941, Page 20

MATCH LOST

RUGBY DECISION

GRAMMAR PIiAYKR NOT TRANSFERRED At last night's meeting- of the Auckland Rugby Football Union. :i letter was received from the Parboil Club in n-ieience to the action of the Grammar Schools' Old Boys' Club in playing l>. Macdonald in its match against Otahuhti last Saturday, without the said player having ;i transfer fiom the Parnell Club. appeared before the committee and stated that, he had applied for a transfer on Thursday last. lie was a financial member of the Parnell Club up to and including the 1940 season. The chairman ruled that Miu-dnnald would have to apply l> the Panu-11 Chili at its next committee meeting for a transfer. It was resolved that (irniumnv. which club had won the came at Stnrges Park. 11—6. be debited with a loss in last Saturday's match, which \v,\s awarded to Otahuhu on the grounds that the winning train played a registered member of the Parnell Club. Parnell Club is to br advised that the union had no power, either under its own rules or under the laws of professionalism, to deprive any player of his light of join-

ing another club, providing that he duly complies with the rules as regards transfers. Sergeant Macnamara, representing Papakura Camp, inquired about the position, of a second fifteen from the camp. It was resolved that the second Papakura XV. play each week asiainst the eide which had the bye in the second division of the senior cliamprionship. The chairman, Mr. A. A. Baker, said he had received an invitation for a match to be played at Sturges Park, Otahuhu, on Saturday week, in aid of the Fighting Men's Mothers' appeal. Tt was agreed that the match be played and that the net pro-ct-cdri lie handed to the Mayor of Otahuhu. The New Zealand Union notified that the application for reinstatement of K. A. Fit/.patrick had been approved, but that of O. K. -T. Ludlow had been referred to the Canterbury Rupby Union. Tflie junior management board advised that the union's office would be open on Friday evening from seven to nine o'clock for the final weighing of-players.