RUGBY FOOTBALL

Greymouth Evening Star, 4 September 1934, Page 2

RUGBY FOOTBALL

MR GEDDES’ DISCLAIMER. (BY CABLE —PBEBB ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] SYDNEY, September 3. The Secretary of the New South Wales Rugby Union, has received a cablegram from Mr Geddes, manager of the All Blacks, as follows: “Regret! gross misrepresentation of remarks re-1 garding referees. No slight intended. Nobody has anything but praise for the whole tour.” CLIFF PORTER’S ESTIMATE. WELLINGTON, September 3. “I say definitely there was absolutely no call for it,” said the ex-All Black captain, C. G. Porter, who arrived by the R.M.S. Makura from Sydney to-day, referring to the complaints of some members of the All Blacks’ party about Australian referees. Porter confirmed his remarks made in an interview with the Sydney “Daily Telegraph” last week. “■When a team won squealing it was bad enough,” he said, “but when it lost it was worse.” While Irving may have been too technical in his rulings he was the same to both teams. I did not see any partiality on either side, and I congratulated the referee afterwards on his fine display.”

MAX NOT IN SHIELD TEAM. NELSON, September 4. Considerable surprise is expressed at the non-inclusion of D. Max, the All Black, in Nelson’s Seddon Shield team to meet Marlborough on Saturday. The selector, E. Snow, says the present pack, which is on tour in the South, is working together so well that it would be unwise to break the existing combination. MAORI REP.’S DEATH AUCKLAND, September 2. After being injured in a Maori Rugby football game for the Prince of Wales Cup yesterday, the young Wellington representative player, Jack Ruru, aged 22, single, died from haemorrhage at the Rotorua Hospital. He was captain of the Tairawhiti (East Coast) team which played the Taihauauru (West Coast) team at Rotorua. Ruru was injured in a game about a fortnight ago, and during yesterday’s game appeared to be still suffering from the effects of concussion. Evidfence that there had been no sign of rough tactics, was given by the referee, Mr. A. L. Wallace, at Rotorua, in an inquest into Ruru’s death, which was adjourned.

Ruru represented the New Zealand Maoris in 1930 against England at Wellington, and scored a brilliant try. In the following season he toured Australia with the New Zealand University team as a dashing three-quarter. This year he was captain of the Victoria University College team, and his consistently good play brought him a Wellington representative cap. PLAYER INJURED. AUCKLAND, September 3. As a. result of internal injuries received in a Rugby football match a fortnight ago, "Boss” Andrews, ol Pio Pio, a Maniapoto and King Country senior representative player, has been admitted to the Te Kuiti Hospital. His condition is serious.