PROTEST UPHELD

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31769, 28 August 1968, Page 18

PROTEST UPHELD

Extra Point For Sydenham

Sydenham gained a belated P° ln ,‘he D.C.L. Shield competition last evening when the management committee of the h. a . nte r b !?r y Ru « by Union upheld I,® ,® ub 8 Protest against th* P' aying M R- A. Sommervllle ™. n .w er » ty A) by th ® University B team on August 17. The extra point places SydnU« a J n *.. 1 secon<l e( J ual ln th® competition with Shirley, and University B. deprived of a point, slips down the ladder to fifth place, behind Albion. tiJn he e«^ le . c ° verln « th® Position said clubs with two teams senior grade could not ayers ,rom o ne side th ® ® ther at any time, without the permission of the un *?n 8 Permit committee. Although the University club had written to the union on IS! the game, saying it intended playing Som■nervine In the B team. It had not approached the permit committee, said Mr J. K Torrance. Its action, therefore, constituted a breach of the rules.

Mr B. J. Drake said the rule was not printed in the union's handbook, and he doubted whether University knew it had to seek the permission of the permit committee.

The club should have been guided by the rule which prohibited clubs with more than one team in any grade from transferring players after they had played four games for one side, replied Mr Torrance.