OBJECTION TO A REFEREE.
TO THE EDITCm. Sir,—To those who follow Rugby for the lovo of the game the Pirates’ objection to a referee makes sorry reading. If sympathy should bo extended to anyone, it should be to Mr .Stuart, who, as representative of the objecting club, found himself most unfortunately placed. He admitted there was nothing behind the letter —nothing in the way of innuendo —but, but! Could the Rugby Union do anything else but move the. motion it did, and what have the referees as a body to say to such puerile objections? The members of the Appointment Board who saw ffie game referred to were agreed that the referee controlled the game splendid', . but, of course, their opinion is as nothing compared with that of the team that lost. The president of the Rugby Union’s expression of opinion that the referee gave an excellent exhibition must also, of course, be written down as of no account. It is really remarkable, too, how some members of the Rugby Union express one opinion outside Hie committee room and another inside. The motion to take the matter in committee would have suited them grandly.— l am, etc., Ex-Rkfebfj, Juno 24.
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Evening Star, Issue 18668, 24 June 1924, Page 7
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