LEAGUE TEAM’S “STRIKE”

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12602, 12 November 1926, Page 11

LEAGUE TEAM’S “STRIKE”

SYMPATHY FOR MR MAIR PLAYERS BARdItO CONTROL. Australian and NZ. Cable Association. LONDON, November 10. “Sporting Life/ in commenting on the New Zealand League team’s epiw>de, desribes it as deplorable. Mr Mair, says tho paper, is deserving of all the goodwill he can command, because it will be readily granted that it is not easy to control a body of men throughout a long tour, but the League team is purely an amateur combination, and the members therefore might reasonably consider themselves not bound to cast-iron discipline. A FIXTURE CANCELLED Owing to the industrial depression, Feathcrstone, ;t Yorkshire mining town, which has been losing money over football fixtures, has canceled its match with the New Zealand League team, as there is no prospect of a profit being made. HOMEWARD VIA PANAMA (Received November 11. 7.3 n.m.) LONDON, November 10. Til*, Rugby League Council has •deferred the questions of playing the Zealand team in Paris, and the promised match ;it the Crystal Palace. The president, iit a statement re-

garding the conference with the New Zealand Council, confirmed the action in sending the visitors home via Panama. They will probably sail on January 28th.