SATURDAY'S MATCHES.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19916, 1 May 1930, Page 7

SATURDAY'S MATCHES.

Patrons at Lancaster Park on Saturday will be provided with a rare'feast, as two important games will be played on the oval to enable the (electors to see all the most prominent players in action. The Christchurch-"Varsity game, which was to have been played at the Show Grounds, will take piece at 1.30 p.m. on the oval, as a curtain-raiser to the Hnwood-Albion match, which received pride of place on account of the fact that. both, teams won their games last Saturday. It is likely, however, that the brightest and most interesting Bugby will be witnessed in the first game between two fifteens who have a reputation for bright, open play. The Linwood-Albion game, bowever, shonld provide a keen struggle, and If the "Greens" have improved ae much as their supporters state, an Interesting game should result. On the south ground Sydenham meet Merl. vale, and on the west, High School Old Boys meet West. Players in the early senior game on the oval are asked to he in attendance so that the game may start punctually at 1.80 p.m. CANTERBURY UNION. The Christchurch v. 'Varsity senior A match, on Saturday next is being played on the Lancaster Park oval at 1.80 p.m. The under IS grade match, Technical Old Boys v. West Old Boys, is being played on Lancaster Park West at 1.30 p.m NEW ZEALAND UNION. INTERPRETATION OF RULES. (rasss ASSdczATiox tfUKantu.) WELLINGTON, April 30. Two questions affecting the rules of Rugby were decided by the Management Committee of the New Zealand Rugby Union to-night. The first was a ruling «as to what actually constitutes a 'fair catch under the present rule, whereby a player claiming a "fair catch" must immed.ately make a heel-mark, and the second dealt with the action to be taken when a ball Is put in the scrum and goes right through. The decisions finally arrived at were;— <i) A fair catch can only be allowed when the player claiming it has both feet on the ground and claims the catcb by making a heel-mark. (3) A penalty should be awarded only when, in the referee'e' opinion, the player ✓putting the ball in the scrummage intentionally does so in such a manner that it can. not.be hooked. In all other cases of the ball passing right through a fresh serummaee should be ordered. " i Mr A. 0. .Kitto asked if a flayer, who jumped in the air, caught the hall, came-

down and mad* a heel-mark, could be awarded an "air catch." Mr S. S. Dean: It'a not a nark. Mr Kitto: What If .an All BUek who toured in 1924 says a mark can be awarded! Mr Dean: Well, I would like to know Where it was allowed. The 1924 team, he added, found it practically Impossible to get marks. The question had been discussed at the Imperial Conference, where a mark had been looked upon as purely a defensive measure, and it had been maintained that it should be awarded only in a player's own territory. Mr Kitto maintained that if a player landed on the ground and made a heel-mark his claim should be allowed. He asked Mr A. E. Neilson (hon. secretary) what his experience had been during the Springboks' visit In 1921. Mr Neilson- My experience was that a mark was allowed only when the heel-mark was made practically simultaneously with the catching; of the b.aJJ. If a player was knocked over before he made his heel-mark, it was pointed out, his cla;'m could not be allowed

PLAYERS SUSPENDED. (PRESS ASSOCIATION TBLEOBAM.) OTAKI, April 30. Four senior footballers, including two Maori representatives, were last night suspended for rough play, two for three playing Saturdays a»d two for one-playing Saturday. The players suspended are Williams and Satherley, of the Shannon Club, and B. Parata and Tatana, .of the Wanderers, Levin. The last two players are Maori representatives. The suspensions were made by the Horowhenua TTnion.