ROUGH FOOTBALL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 258, 28 September 1933, Page 8

ROUGH FOOTBALL.

DISPLAY AT AUCKLAND. AUCKLAND, Sept. 27. The roughest game of football seen in Auckland for many years was played at Cariaw Park when the Richmond Club League team, of Auckland, deieated- the St. George Club team, Sydney, by 13 points to 8. Right from the beginning the referee penalised the visiting players tairJy ireely for such illegalities as obstruction ■ and shepherding. It was obvious that the Esc. George players resented these penalties, and tliey forthwith commenced to pay more attention to the man than to the ball. It did not take tile Richmond men long to retaliate, and tlie result was that there were continual scuttles between members of the respective teams. The standard of football suffered as a natural consequence, and it was no uncommon sight, when the opposing forwards pacited down in the scrums, to see them kicking out at one another long before the ball was put in. iSome or the Richmond players were knocked out by illegal tackung after they had got rid ot the ball, and by being punened or kicked when not in possession. The culminating point was readied after the home team fiad been awarded a penalty try for obstruction about half-way through the second spell. The visitors became more oyereager than ever, and were plainly rattled. Retaliation by the Richmond pack led to an affray between the two sets of forwards, and some of the backs. Fists were hying in all directions, and it was with great difficulty that the referee restored some kind of order, but in spite of the warning members of both teams continued to play the man in preference to the bail, the visitors being the worse offenders. The result was that the game, as a spectacle, was more or less spoilt. The Richmond captain bore marked evidence of the fray at the end of the inatch.