ASSOCIATION

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 141, 17 June 1922, Page 12

ASSOCIATION

First (A) Division,

Goals. Ch,

differ, what is the layman to do? The referees themselves cannot agree on many points, so they send them 'on to the New Zealand Rugby Union, with a request that the executive of that body send a cable to the International Board to get an interpretation, say, of rule 19. Would you believe it? New Zealand takes upon herself the playing of an amendment to rule 12, which looks like completely altering the game of Eugby, as we used to know it, and then when it comes to a question whether a scrum should be ordered ten yards from the touch-line the whole length of the field or only between the twenty-fives, they send the "moot point" begging round the world. The words used in the "Book of the Law are "between the twentyfive lines." What can that mean, as a sage member of the executive of the N.Z.R.JT.A. put it at the last meeting, but "between the twenty -fives" ? But it kept the "heads" of the game a full half-hour discussing it, and even then it had to go finally to the Appeal Board. Carry on !

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