SOCCER

Evening Star, Issue 19584, 16 June 1927, Page 4

SOCCER

CANADIAN TEAM'S DUNEDIN VISIT The Canadian team is due to arrive here on Monday from Christchurch. It will piny two games in Dunedin. Apart from the educational value of such, tho manner in which the finer points of the game in ball control and inter-play as exemplified by the Canadians, should prcvide the public with a fine afternoon’s entertainment, and at the same time give them a keen insight into the game that attracts thousands of spectators in the Old Country. The first match will be against tho Otago repro- ; sentatives on Wednesday, and on Satnr- ■ day, June 25, tho visitors will meet a ! New Zealand team in the first test. Both matches will he played at Carisbrook. For the day of the tost match, the Railway Department will issue I whole-day excursion tickets between ' Palmerston, Lawrence, and Balclntha for trains arriving in Dunedin np to 1.16 p.m. The box plan for the test match will bo opened on Wednesday next. A REFEREE'S COMPLAINT WARNING TO PLAYERS. [Pjjr United Pkess Association.] WELLINGTON, June 16. The Football Association Management Committee heard the statement of a member cf the Brooklyn Club, who had been ordered off the field by the referee. The player said he did not hear the referee’s warning, and the committee decided to let him off with a caution, the members saying that far too much abuse was heaped on referees lately, and offenders in future would bo severely dealt with. The same referee complained that in the game referred to be was subjected to insulting remarks from another Brook lyn player, while one who had previously used insulting language repeated the offence as he (tho referee) was leaving by the gate. This player at- - . and informed the committee that, as the words complained of were used’ after the match he did not think they came miner the jurisdiction ot the"committee or the referee. A member of the committee thought they must agree that this contention was sound, but after consideration the committee decided to suspend the player for two Saturdays for objectionable and improper behaviour in connection with the match.