FOOTBALL.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20022, 2 September 1930, Page 14

FOOTBALL.

RUGBY. the ranfurly shield. (PRESS ASSOCIATION TBtiEGUAM.I INVERCARGILL, September 1. The Southland team to meet Wellington in the Ranfurly Shield game on Wednesday is as follows: — Baeks —Norris, Webb, Porter, Gcddes, Diack, Sharpe, Holden. Forwards— George (2), Purdue, McKenzie, Hazlett, Gait, Metcalfe, and Poll. The team is the same as that which defeated Hawke's Bay with the exception that Webb replaces Niven. The now man will play on the wing, Diack having been shifted in to live-eighths. PLAYER ORDERED OFF. ALLOWED TO COME BACK. Laßt night at the meeting of the Canterbury Rugby Referees' Association, Mr W. G. Garrard osked why the referee of the Christchurch v. High School Old Boys match last Saturday had ordered a player oft the field and had later allowod him to come on again. This was a very serious matter, as it struck at tho fundamentals of the game. The -rule specifically stated that once a player had been ordered off he must not be allowed to return to the field. Ho (Mr Garrard) was not interested in the rights or wrongs of the matter, but with the referee's action in allowing the player to como back again. At the request of Mr Garrard, the chairman read the rule regarding the matter. This was as follows: —"If ordered off the player shall take no further part in the gamo in progress, and must be reported to the Rugby Union by the referee. In international matches tho report is to be made to the International Board." . , Mr E. A. Empson, the referee Of tho match in question, said that he had allowed tho player to return in the spirit of the game. He had been asked to do so by the captain of the opposing team and, realising that the same thing had been done in international and other important games, he had agreed to the request. He now realised that according to the rules he was wrong, but in the spirit of the game he considered that he was correct. , ... Mr Garrard. Do two wrongs make a right I Mr R. A. Henderson said that ho considered that the matter was one which should be dealt with by the Rugby Union and not by the Referees' Association, and asked whethor the referee had reported the matter to the Union. ... . . Mr Empson replied that the incident had been reported, and the matter was then dropped. hurunui sub-union. The Hurunui Sub-Union held its annual seven-a-Bide tournament at Waiau on Saturday afternoon. Tho weathe' was . finp, the grounds in good order, and t'uero was a large attendance of spectators. Moat of tho games were very evenly contested. Unfortunately, owing to the football season being almost over, some of the clubs were unable to field Bonior teams, and the term holidays accounted for some of the schools not being represented. The following aro the results: — SENIORS. First Round. Culverden 8 beat United 0. Final. Culverden 3 beat Waiau 0. In this gamo two extra spells had to be played before a score was obtained. The winners hold the Aldridge Challenge Cup for tho third year in succession. The names of the winning team are:—S. Maxwell, H. Hiatt, J. Crothal, P. McMillan, A. Burke, A. Munro, and N. Ross. jtTNIORS. First Round. Kaikoura A 0 beat United 8. Waiau A 6 beat Culverden 0. Cheviot 8 beat Rotherham A 0. Kaikoura B 3 beat Rotherham B 0. Second Round. » Kaikoura B 5 beat Waiau B S. Semi-final, Waiau A 8 beat Kaikoura B 0. Cheviot 3 beat Kaikoura A 0. Final. Cheviot 8 beat Waiau A 0. The winners hold the Harrison Memorial Challenge Cup. The names of the winning team are:—L. Culhane, W. Hughes, G. Crossan, V. Barnes, E. Dobbin, J. Harrison, and N. Crampton. SCHOOLS. OPEN GRADE. First Round. Waikari S beat Hawarden 0. Cheviot 8 beat Culvorden 8. Final. Cheviot 8 beat Waikari 0. The winners hold the Godfrey Westenra Challenge' Cup. The name* of the winning team are:—E. Marshall, M. Child b, J. Pain, H. Crampton, F. Walls, J. Savage, and J. Lochhead. LIGHT-WEIGHT (6*t 71b and nnder). First Round. Waiau 8 beat Hawarden 0. Semi-final. Waiau 8 beat Cheviot 0. Culverden 10 beat Waikari 0. Final Culverden 8 beat Waiau 0. In this gamo extra time had to bo played before a score was obtained. The winners hold the Ford Challenge Cup. The names of the winning team aro:—D. Hooper, D. Swaney, J. Mcgay, J. Denton, G. Hooper, C. Burrows, and J. McMillan. The following referees controlled the games:—Messrs A. Burke, J. Gibbs, L. G. Forbes, B Henderson, H. Inch, K. Foster, F. Foster, C. W. McKeegan, and P. Stewart. Tho following junior representative teoin has been selected to play a match against a Canterbury Rugby Union junior team, at Waikafi, on Saturday next:—V. Barnes, N. Crampton, J. Harrison, G. Crossen, J. Crossen, L. Culhane (Cheviot), D. Crawford, I. Walter, G. McTaggart (Kaikoura), M. Dudley, B. Marsden, Jack Smith (United), G. Aldridge, H. Hiatt (Culverden), 0. Mander (Waiau). Emergencies—Backi?: R, Collins (K.), Ron. Halkett (Rotherham). Forwards: L. Honoybono (U.), G. Stove (Waiau).

RUGBY REFEREES. MEETING OF ASSOCIATION. Last evening a general meeting of |*** Canterbury Rugby Referees' Associa on held, when the president, Mr W. B. n > was in the chair, and there was an attendance of about thirty members. At the commencement of the Leslie Averill delivered a short ;» duress the subject of "First-Aid on the , . Field." At the conclusion of his lecture Dr. Averill expressed his willingi give a practical demonstration of early in the next season. Date of Annual Meeting. In moving that the annual general ng of the Association should be held in church in the month of September o year, the president said that it w°u an advantage to appoint the executivee the happenings of the season were fresti the minds of members. The new exccutWo would be able to put in some valuable spoae work" during the summer months. The motion was carried by 17 votes Mr R. J. G. Collins moved that the immediate past president of the Amocim should be ex-offlcio a member of the The motion was seconded by Mr H. intosh, and carried with two dissentients. • Representative on Union. The president moved that a recommendation bo forwarded to the Canterbury Kugoy Union to the effect that the Referees Association representative on the Management Committee of the Canterbury Rugby Union should be granted the same power to vote 0> the other members of the committee. Mr W. G. Garrard said that he was opposed to tho motion. The Rugby Union was an amalgamation of clubs and the Keforoos' Association really had no concern in the affairs of the clubs. He thought that the Association should never have ,£f n granted representation on the committee. The players and the clubs were responsible for the control of Rugby football in provinces and the responsibility should rest upon them alone. The motion was carried on tho voices. Y.M.C.A. TOURNAMENT. Boys' Rugby and Association football tournaments were held yesterday under the auspices of the Y.M.C.A., the former being seven-a-side and the latter five-a-sido. Rotoiti won, the Rugby tournament and the final of the .Association section will be played b«« tween Rotoiti and Tekapo.