RUGBY FOOTBALL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 15 October 1921, Page 4

RUGBY FOOTBALL.

An interesting reference" to the. great days of Tarauaki football is •made by Ernest Booth,' the All Black, in an article dealine with :the';third test, in the course of which he points oiit where the All Blacks of to-day showed a lack of the play that years ago put them in such a proud position. Inter alia he says: ''A riother old Tara-, naki slogan of the palmy days of the Baylys. Goods, O'Dowda and Co. teams xvp<i 'nunt high,' short, and 'follow ,id': Tn the second spell the absence of t>is f-^t-io spemM 8 pr'evous lap?e." "Rambler" in the Referee, reports

a somewhat' extraordinary decision, consequently awkward position Sydney High School football J£cjg He writes: "A bombshell la£fes Sydney football circles recentjy; was decided that the Sydney Gj mar School could no longer hold Rugby premiership for 1921 •■* now share the distinction, with i xngton College. A rule pi the cop nng body requires a boy who leav school and returns to it> to Jbe' 1 months on the roll again before 1 qualified to take part i n jjnotthuL * petitions—but he way TtteivF * nut. After the conclusion of? the mierghip tlie jportea*ast«r af 6y Church of England pframmar & found that this rule had baea vertently broken. One of the H team had gone to the Araidale S for a few months, and on retui •^ r ad Mot asked for & derm play him. St. Joseph's Colle>e \ themselves %n ft somewhat similar tion, and reported it. In thd c« boy hajf been away from the «cho< two and & half years, and was r al|y treated as a new pupil on n turn. However, though there w infringement of the spirit of th in either case, it has been decidec the literal conditions have t honoured, and the two schools 10, | games in which the hoys took St. Joseph's College inflicted iNewin^ten their first defeat. , this decision reversed and 1 credited to Newington, the latt I loft level with Sydney ,Gn , School. It has been decided tha .shall share the title. If the : 1 bad been discussed earlier, pi ' they would have played off. iTh ,eral opinion is the A.A.. I has. interpreted the rule too [nically. In neither case was 1 i fringement serious' or prompted ! motire. Back in 1896 St. V J College finished at the W»«f» discovery that one of the wmt 'over »ge caused tfee honourto I to Newington College, who wci ners-upi -The-present trouble i involved. There ought to be' fied date after which no*matters [kind can be considered «ach »« either cricket or football.'' j A lady writer in the > Sydney yery keenly opposed to girjs football, and this, we may say, dially endorse. Certain game* « and suitable for girls; othenKsh just as carefully tabooed. T*he condudes a sjood and sennb tide-thus; "Convention is/not right, nor is it wholly wrong, saves a lot, of people from com follies, and the objections 4p bAve nothing to do with eon They arise purely out of a> fca* «tul prove disastrous for {he women, both in the immediate and when they shall reach mMd