FOOTBALL.
N.Z. BTJGBY UNION AND THE PAEENT BODY. t>ur LcrTLc/m corrcspondcct «rtat<as Ihit tho "OUcn'ti," tli&cu9Rirvs' the proposal of Mr F. T. Evans, president of tbc >."«*- /Valitd TJupby Union, to sever relation xith tbo 'Pn.riMh Union. says that apparently hopo of ai> uridere landing "with the Dominion will hire to be abandoned unless the Scr- . vico team, rxw on it« way back to Zetir land, can i;bt a ouoocerful battle there fo> loyalty to tbo puxent union. "Ostensibly, the tauw of tho trouble la irritation on the t?art of tbo Xc.v &-alind Uuion at tho refusal cf * IV.u?l>y Union to acquiesce in alteration? of llio lawe that tho New Zeal ardor* dcTnacd. If Mew Zr-ilard in'.cr.d* to brwak thj regulations forbiddinp r.rofe«i£inaJism, i brcach ia inevitable. The Rugby Uaior. foagfct tlxdr batxic tpnTofcMiouAi* i?tu—a tanr, hard battle it —*n/d after eo:ne lean and ansiatai -eais find tkcmselvea uo' oriv ju.-tiicxl, but in the cvor-ircroMtr.if popularity of & gasM carried or. Ac« ttrictly amateur liwa. They have <l:e full pucport of Scotland, Irel&nd, and Wnlca, lr.d also of Sooth Africa, and nothuu: which Kew Zealand could uig© would cause thcai to waver in the strict cnforoemc&t of llic n»gulat ians against professionalism. The Gonirlure of Xew Zealand from the fold, if it i? to come will bo liecrJy deplored, but I a .« r/->t without hope thai within that far-off Dominion there mil w> *t»lwart« e-vyj-b found to ■aphola tie banner of amateurism w.d, incidentally, to maintain wk*t is reaily aa c^zjic-^iorr.. '
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16702, 10 December 1919, Page 6
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