WINDING UP.

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 73, 23 September 1922, Page 14

WINDING UP.

This has been a dead year for Wellington aB far as interprovincial matches have been concerned, for the Brown Shield is a long' way away. Quite a few of those in charge of Soccer look at Brown Shield matches with a somewhat doubtful eye, as a serious interference with local competition fixtures, but there can be no doubt that this season has dragged, sadly during the last four or five Saturdays for want of a flourish and finish. The manner in which, the Thistle-Marist consolation cup match finished last Saturday had anything but a flourish about it, and one or two Thistle men have not come through that game very well. At the end of time both teams stood ,level; with a goal apiece, and according to all well-estab-lished practice in consolation games extra tune should have been played. One Thistle man walked off the field, a mid-field talk followed, and Thistle decided that the game* was not worth going on with, and defaulted to Marist. It was a miserable end to a match, somewhat of an insult to the referee, without whose permission no player may leave the field, and anything but a compliment to the Marist men. From what I hear, the Thistle men were not at all of one mind as "to whether thf extra spells should be played or not, and one or two of them were so disgusted as to say that they had had enough, not onlyl for this season, but for next season as well.