RUGBY FOOTBALL.
SUSPENSION OF CHRISTCHURCH MARISTS. CLUB WILL NOT APOLOGISE. (Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, March 31. The executive of the Marist Football Club has issued a statement in reference to the actions of _ the club and the Canterbury Rugby Union in dealing with the Payne trophy and the suspension of the Marist Club. The executive says: “The club will not apologise because it has committed no offence. It will not withdraw the letter to the Canterbury Rugby Union, which was a manly and honourable letter framed to meet the special demands of the moment. If a member of the Otago Union has been allowed to inafflt the honour of Canterbury's champion club and if Canterbury has failed in its duty to defend the honour of its champion club, that champion club must act in its own defence. We must submit to the unjust and invalid suspension rather than allow our honour to be besmirched by the vile accusations of ‘ringing-in.’ Wo are confident that any other club would have acted as the Marist Club haa acted. The Marist Club ha« violated no rules of Rugby. The action of the club in regard to the Payne trophy match was the only course to be followed consistent with the laws and traditions of Rugby and consistent with the dictates of personal honour, of manliness, ind of. justice.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19135, 1 April 1924, Page 8
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