HOCKEY SENSATION

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 55, 14 September 1928, Page 17

HOCKEY SENSATION

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CIIRISTCUURCH, 13th Sept. Mr. W. 11. Down, secretary of the New Zealand Hockey Association, president of the Sclwyn Hockey Club, anil a prominent referee, will not referee any more hockey matches for the next three years if a request made by the Management Committee of the Cantorbury Hockey Association is endorsed, by the Kefcrees' Association. Mr. Down was reported to tho Management-Com-mittee at a meeting on Monday for making an insulting remark to another referee at tho five-a-side tournament at Hagley Park last Saturday, and a motion was then carried to the above effect. Mr. Davcy, a referee, reported to the committee that he had been refereeing a game between Sydenham and Selwyn. Mr. Down did not agree with his decisions, and said to him:1 "If Sydenham collect these medals they've got you to thank for it." The management committee considered the matter, and decided: "That the Hockey Referees' Association be requested not to appoint Mr. Down to any game' under the jurisdiction of the Canterbury Hockey Association for | three years." It was mentioned at the mooting that Mr. Down had also questioned a decision of Mr. R. Gracie, re-' fcree in another match on Saturday, in ordering off a Selwyn player. As no report was supplied by the referee no action was taken in this case.