A HIGH TACKLE
LEAGUE FOOTBALLERS BEFORE THE COURT.
(UMTIP fMSS ASSOCUTIOK.—COPTXIOHT,)
(Received Uth December, 1 p.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day. Harold Chandler, a .Rugby League player, charged with occasioning actual bodily.harm, was acquitted after, considerable evidence had been adduced to show that lie was attempting a high tackle when his open hand struck Harold Rigby, a player in the opposing team.
An unusual incident w«s vecjovdod at Parramatta, stated a Press Association message from Sydney at the end of October, which was the sequel to a football match between two League tenms-r-Windsor and Wentworthville. Rigby wliile splinting for a try, hnd olily Chnndler to bent. Chandler knocked ttigby's arm down as the latter was endeavouring to fend, and i,, the resultant mix-up, His by was dazed. On recovering lie found iiis nose li!eedini». A charge was made before the i'olice Court, and Chandler was coinmitud for trial.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 140, 11 December 1923, Page 7
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176A HIGH TACKLE Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 140, 11 December 1923, Page 7
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