RUGBY AND LEAGUE.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18149, 12 August 1924, Page 9

RUGBY AND LEAGUE.

VIEWS ' STRONG CRITICISM. ' „ w hich has arisen c and Rugby foot- o Referred to at the L sm° ke English Rugby last nig^ t. manager of th t Hbum, ia re P lyinK t0 k +L 1 to the team by i l&B jriesher) said ho ff&L*some 28,000 people = S the Soccer t ( B rSese team in Auckland j In view of this iat- , \ onneared strange to him ( the pommion thero ® poor spirit shown in t jad brt» the League game. 1 hey < ; SiiaftZ* p c^;,g. lb. J® ®&ed out to the Chinese. ] la 3 had been turned ( W pleasure at the j in Dunedm so far as 1 WjgiSU Saturday's game uas , League players, in the eyes ot 1 did not want to be ] The whole of the twenty- ] the English team were , At Home, he said, and , (U ere n ot paid, as were 1 iSL'R. £b, uU where , paid by the week, and Utfr mateh. as was the case , league players. :r-s fttitswit of Visitors. , -ka treatment which had been ac- i the All Blacks when they had ISTHtane in 1905. an<} thßt whie jPiMi in Blacks exrected to re- ' was very different from had been accorded the EngJ&Wne team which was now Dominion. To say the iL 'the treatment which had ftWed out to the English team Swne of the so-called sports of && Union was not pleasant— JgKhite Rasby Union," lie M Ihsre was no more polluted in the world than Rugby, he £& The League paid its players S lop of the table (hear, hear), ij nader the table. He Mid he lofeenI ofeen his mmd about this matid had spoken as lie thought, fed that the victory in Dunedin lojn to rnnoothe things over, and m to pro re that the Leacrue tot half so black as they (fr Mimed. Not one of the ■hrf the League made a penny {flame, and the players iMpjs*'* ere sot the blackguards mode out to be. to a hter. toast, Mr DanVn«t. the English team had being dirty players, assembled in London a wrong word during the tour. In only one te seen an Endish 'nff the field, and there doubt as to. the jus®^OTft li penrHy.< They had come to plsy the game. MfiretarV-manager of at being lWaapt the dtv; Se stated that in&gmma Enfrlish," ,and his men friends, If there we™ he said, tlie CiSSBBm not want: to have anythem. Some people j»p™"s63ie.ve p that othera had no own ideas with reAbliHopie footballers thffi mariner. in which " game, and iie ' could not , Bome people to bodies of wits neither good for the individuals, and fueling was got rid fewyone concerned. friendly relations the English and 'the ' All Blacks when yjWlßßTOroenflv from Australia. Perhave the pleasure of the AU Blacks when OltfvConntry. The sffiWpmmACto be Iriendly, and did of : distrust :: which the two codeß. There CTwliaOTitSliy'- : '-biay- -the: game ? The to be embittered .pi)ion, and if there jp. the past, why conference "ffio'Were held, and the oh -principles. .agree to differ. - J OoMTattdatfld; ■ President" of; the! League, also re-1 Be 1 \Qfi Duaediti on their i DaneAin ■ haflf thrown sothei Rughy lJnion league game, jsamy there was the had met in S 'The 'LetigUe people ands if, they, were game,' they would attraction. The flOwever,, would de--vfor ihfemselves. He rrrflTpr*-- a letter stated that the -~^^ y teams of Mana?over to JLeague sefteoh. This would ir that of a : -Aliekland'^The speakMi>yle. and - several L hesn invited to district to, atarf "tjiere 'Bftst year. The mated a fair deal from m fact, from the

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