The Question Bag.

NZ Truth, Issue 151, 9 May 1908, Page 3

The Question Bag.

*O.L. M (Teinuka)-(l) It is to this effect, "A player must be considered as tackled if he, on being • grasped by an opponent, fall, and the ball, which is m his possession, touch the ground. (2) If the referee gave that ruling he is, a bigger freak than some of the whistlte tooters m this city of Wellington. Both m law and equity the decision was a manifestly absurd one. **L.M." (Hokitika)— £263 profit on last season's . operations. Cannot make head or tail of the second part of your question. >«S.T." (Westport)— ll the ball is passed back, but after alighting on the ground is blown forward; the pass is legitimate, provided the ball did not alight i» front of the passer. The referee's ruling won't pass muster. We dread to think, of what would happen were one of his stamp told off to argue the question, say, with Jack Spencer and' Billy Hardham. >«N.G." (Dunedin)— Yes, C. is quit* correct. J'L.G." (Dunedin).— A wins the wager, as the player m question was a member of the 1903 N.Z. team, and did participate m more than half the matches played on the Australian tour. ••N.V." (Ponsonby, Auckland)— "Tabby" Wynward was unquestionably one of the finest attacking- threequarters m the Dominion m that year. ♦•Argos" (Napier)— lB79-80. "8.M." .-(Hastings)— Never : represented New Zealand. . "CM." (Auckland)--(JO Bung the matter under the notice of the Auckland Rugby Union through your club. (2) On law not ori facts. It is clearly a case of the former. «A.T." (Wellington)— Too early vet to attempt to sort out the correct peas. "Wager" (Wellington)— A good man, but nothing to rave about. Wait till you hear what the selectors have to say. My humble opinion is that he will miss the bus nv. streets; "F.W.." "M.M.," and "C.R." Wellington) — Our space ; ! is too valuable to waste m fulsome adulations of that kind. Anyway, only two of the players mentioned m your several letters can have a possible chance on present form of playing against the AngloWelsh team. ■••'-•*• "L.8." (Petpne)— Uses very poor judgment m attack, to our way of thinking- .-■•.." "8.A." (Picton)— No arrangement vet, so far as we know. "F.G." (Ashburton) and "R.W." (Christchurch)— Mason may not be the clean potato m everything appertaining to Rugby— liis trips to Wellington as one of Canterbury's delegates +o the N.Z.R.U. opens up nrave doubts' on , that point but we refuse to believe that he would prostitute his position to effect the purpose you suggest. The matter should have been ventilated at the annual meeting, when both parties would have got a level start. »N.F." (Stratford)— Wo have consistentIv opposed the cadging of subscriptions outside of Taranaki to raise/ a memorial to the late Alf Bayley, but the snorts of Taranaki should shoulder "the burden. If other unions give monetary assistance, why did they not come to light at'tne time' the hat was beina passed round for the Ellison memorial. How did Taranaki and her footballers respond on that occasion? With 2s 6d. We don't like to hurt your feelings but we can't refrain from savin? that the star of Ellison shone more - gloriously m the world's RusjDv coistellations than ever Bayley's did; Don't try our patience too far, pr we' may have to refer to that letter over the signature of the late Barney Armit's brother a -week or two fallowing on the demise ' of Bayley. "W.H." (Dunedin).— Your 'friend who contended that the colors of the respective clubs (Alhambra and Poneke) are dissimilar has the best of the argument.