RUGBY AFFRAY

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 136, 12 June 1933, Page 9

RUGBY AFFRAY

DISGRACEFUL SCENES

MATCH AT MASTERTON

(Special to the "Evening Post.") MASTERTON, This Day. Disgraceful seeues are reported to have marked the closing stages of the Glad-fitone-Masterton junior grade Rugby match played at Rugby Park on Saturday. It is said that bad temper was exhibited early in the game. A Masterton player retired in the first spoil with his face badly bruised, and a Gladstone player was ordered off in the same spell. Late in the match a Masterton player, J. Morris, was badly hurt by a. heavy kick in the groin. His team mates alleged that the kick was deliberate, and it is stated that one of them knocked out a member of the op; posing team. Something in the nature ot a general affray was beginning to develop when a constable, several Rugby Union officials, and spectators, summoned from. Memorial Park, appeared on the scene, and succeeded in quelling the disturbance. Morris, who was injured rather seriously, received medical attention, and was taken to hia home'by, 'car. Several other players were injured in the course of the game, but none of them, it is stated, seriously. Players and a number of spectators declare that at no stage did the referee, Mr. P. Ryan, lose control of the game. It is stated that- the kick which laid Morris out was delivered when the referee's back was turned. No first aid was available on the ground, and a message littd to be sent to Memorial Park for assistance. . , It is anticipated that a full and searching investigation of the whole affair will be made by the Wairarapa Rugby Union.