FOOTBALL.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 216, 19 September 1911, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

A CANCELLED MATCH

WELLINGTON UNION ASKED

FOR EXPLANATION

At the meeting of the management committee of the Wairarapa Rugby Union at Carterton, on Saturday evening, considerable discussion took place with regard to the cancelling of the match which was to have taken place with Wellington on Saturday last.

From the correspondence it appeared that, after arranging to play Wairaxapa with an A team, and publishing the names of the same at the beginning of the week, the, Wellington Eugby Union held a special meeting later on in the week, and decided to send the team to play Marlborough, and meet Wairarapa with a B team. Ag--no official communication was received from the Wellington Union up to Friday last, notifying any alteration, it was.decided to telegraph asking what team would play Wairarapa, and the reply received was that it would be a Wellington B team. Upon receipt of this telegram the local union decided not io entertain the proposal of. playing a B team, after making arrangement to meet an A team, and notified -Wellington their ■withdrawal from the match.

Later in the day, after the local union had cancelled their _ arrangements, a telegram was received from the "Wellington Onion, giving the names of a revised team, and concluding by stating that it was an A team. The management committee decided to send a letter to the Wellington Rugby Union, giving the reasons for -cancelling the match, with the views of the local union upon this matter, and asking for an explanation re ■chopping and changing from an A to a B team and back again without notifying the Wairarapa Union in any way.' During a lengthy discussion the was expressed that, by offering for two or thre^;/seasons past to .play. Wairarapa with a B team, it looked, as if th,e Wellington Rugby Union had taken upon themselves the task of endeavoring to reduce Wairarapa; to practically the position of a Wellington subrtinion. ■ -V ■