A HIGH STANDARD

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 48, 25 August 1923, Page 8

A HIGH STANDARD

v' SEDDON SHIELD ALLEGATIONS

REFUTED,

„-'." . (BI TELEGRAPH PRBSs'jISSOCIATION.) •■ - ■■" ;''v /WESTPORT,--24th August. ''•Both' Mr. L.-'V.«.Carmine, secretary of the Buller Rugby-Union, and Mr. J. F. Wilson, president of the West Coast, Rugby Union, take-Mr. S. F. Wilson, president .of the New Zealand Rugby rUnion r and Dn Noble' Adams, of -MarF- '. -borough,^.severely,, to task-for their -al--.legations , Or. insinuations regarding' the Seddon-Shield. ■--■:- ■•• ■■ ,-■.;. . ; "In union footBall," Mr. Carmine says "the Seddon-Shield.-continues to be the great factor .in maintainipg interest and a high' staiidUd of play amidst the Seddon; Shield unions. lyo ; suggestion had ever •been made that the shield is not good for football until Marlborough was de- ..- feate'd-by N.elspn, in_ ,1922.,. ,The,; charges. made as to professionalism are untrue • to far as the Bullor and other unions are cbrifeerhed." :Mr.' S: ■ F. '"Wilson may have-been speaking home truths as, far •ftsfhe knows-them,'but it is decidedly lihsportsmanlike ■ and contrary "to the ■«pirit of-EugbJ-, to Iso grossly slander footballers-and'-Rugby officials' of other iuiions-v '"The -Hidden- and guarded irisitiuatrori^ of professionalism"emanating from v Marlbdrough are", .puerile,' u'nspbrtemanlike, and- a disgrace: to'• Rugby; *nd should riot be tolerated by the Sedcton """"'"' '" ;■■'