FOOTBALLER'S INSOLENCE

Evening Star, Issue 18335, 24 July 1923, Page 9

FOOTBALLER'S INSOLENCE

INCIDENT AT O.F.A. MEETING. “STUDIED INSULT TO ASSOCIATION” SAYS CHAIRMAN, A footballer named A. Fraser appeared before the executive of the Otago Football Association at last night’s meeting m connection with his alleged usd, on the playing field, of bad language. He took up an insolent altitude, and is to be asked to apologise to the executive at its next meeting. Fraser, on entering the room, took a seat offered to him by one of the members, and was asked to stand up by tho chairman (Mr E. J. Anderson). He replied that the chair had been offered him. Tho Chairman explained the circumstances leading up to the player’s appearance at the meeting. The only comment from Fraser was a contemptuous grunt. The Chairman said that any player appearing before the executive should go to the meeting with proper decorum. Fraser: Be quiet I Be quiet! A motion that the playen, be asked to leave tho room was carried unanimously, and Fraser retired.

The referee (Mr Parfitt) of the match between Maori Hill and Taier'i related what had happened. Fraser (a member of the former club) had been cautioned "by bint for deliberate tripping. He had later used bad language, for which he (tho referee) had ordered him from tho field.

A motion that the player be heard was lost bv 5 votes to 5.

-Mr J. Deuchrasa moved that Fraser bo suspended, for the rest of the season on the obscene language charge. Mr R. Brown seconded the motion, which was carried.

'J he matter of Fraser’s unseemly conduct at the meeting was then dealt with. The Chairman said that the player’s behaviour bad been a studied insult to the O.F.A.

Mr Rutherford moved that the player be suspended until the end of the 1924 peasem.—Mr J. Milburn seconded the motion, which was lost.

Other motions involving suspension of the player for varying periods, and one that Fraser be suspended until the end of the 1925 season and ordered off all grounds controlled by the 0.F.A., were lost. It was noticed that two or three filembers were not voting. Sventually a proposal from Mr Brown that the player be asked to apologise to the executive at its next meeting was carried.