MARIST OLD BOYS' CLUB

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 82, 5 April 1924, Page 10

MARIST OLD BOYS' CLUB

SEVERS ITS CONNECTION WITH CANTERBURY UNION.

(BT TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

CHRISTCHURCH, 4th April. There will be no all-green. jerseys on the Rugby fields of Christchurch this season,,as '.the Marist Old Boys' Football Club has decided to sever its association with the Canterbury Rugby Union. The club claims that the union's action in calling a meeting of delegates for to-morrow evening came too late. In the concluding portion of its letter conveying this decision to the union, the executive says : "We wish it to be understood that this reply is not meant to convey any reflection on the Rugby Union or the proposed meeting of delegates. The -Alarist Club has suffered so-much because of .the long-enduring suspension of its 200 members that, some of the consequences are now irreparable. All football.clubs know that their organisation demands enthusiasm, and encouragement, but there is no i.ian connected with the Marist Club who could at this stage undertake the, task.of reorganising the Marist Brothers' Old Boys' Football Club as an. ' affiliated Rugby. Club with any prospect of sat-' isfactory results. '„ The M-.rist Old Boys' Association will, revert to. its original status as a. purely social organisation, leaving adhesion to any' outdoor game purely a matter, for any member or group, of members. Further de-tails-Avill be decided at'the annual meeting of the association.'.'

. "The . Rugby Union meeting will.be held just .the same," .said Mr. S.:. F. Wilson, chairman of the Canterbury Rugby Union, this afternoon. "We will reply to the statement of the Marist Brothers' Club • which appeared in the papers."