DISQUALIFIED PLAYERS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 54, 5 March 1927, Page 3

DISQUALIFIED PLAYERS

THEIR SIDE OF THE STORY

CHEISTCHUBCH, This Day Aobody ha u heard our side : 6f th<i story yet, Reporters everywhere' w« have been have been chasing us for it but it has not come out yet. When' it does it W ill-create a big surprise; and I think it will.be the means of those.life disqualifications being removed," said L. Petersen, one of the seven members o± the ISew Zealand Rugby League team upon whom life disqualifications have been, imposed yesterday, when h 9 returned from the North - "Mouat and Wright are up in Auckland now," he said, "making arrangements for a further inquiry. That inqmry they he !d was no good. I think there Mill be another all right We were disqualified without. bein C -heard. £c had no chance to defend ourselves stril-T w, il lquiry hlto the so-called s uke. What we want is an inquiry Ai vh™ nl" lla8emont °f the whole tour, nwu.in that team refused to.play. W e have been ■ disqualify for striking, an a t\on? 'Strik ° at aU; that'B the P°"i''When we arrived ba'-k in New Zeaand the .people said that it was only j *hat. we should be disqualified. f,.,, as)«» they had not heard by, „-ff C Btory- We were bound to Cn agre<;meut to nothing to repoiers anywhere during the tourwo didn't either-but Mr. Mair and o tL Onst Co r,^' e7 giVi"g tho Other sid« Not, ]L * U CVely oPPOrtnnitv. We Z'f °m" ■eaSO haS becu P^Hshed tions win be reeved »° <llSqUallflca-