Unseemly conduct

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 34021, 10 December 1975, Page 22

Unseemly conduct

Two eighth-grade cricket teams; have been withdrawn from the I Canterbury association's competition for the rest of the season. The two teams—Riccarton and' Marist—were warned earlier in I the season after complaints about their standard of behaviour in l recent weeks, Riccarton volun-l tartly withdrew. The C.C.A. man-! agement accepted that and with-, drew Marist. The chairman of the competitions committee (Mr N. G. O. Ockwell) said that the draw for the eighth grade had been revised for the rest of the season. A letter from St Albans accused Marist of "blatant cheating” in scoring and protested that the Marist umpires were consuming alcohol while carrying out their duties. Mr Ockwell said that the two teams involved played last Saturday. and the result—a tie—was obviously contrived. Both teams bowled only eight overs and the match was finished by 3.30 p.m. The management committee decided that. . ’ future, any team drinking on the ground would automatically be withdrawn. It also decided to take firmer action on dress deemed unaccentable. I Eighth, ninth, and president’s' grades will not be played when; ♦he comoetitions resume after! the Christmas break on Januarvl 10. ’ i

Tennis.—Three former winners of the men’s singles have entered for the New Zealand Roman Catholic annual championships in Auckland from December 26 to 31. They are Has Keenan and Kevin Wright, from Auckland, land a Palmerston North teacher, Eric White.