FOOTBALL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 98, 15 August 1914, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

Says the Otago Daily Times:— Some few weeks ago a paragraph appeared in our local columns drawing attention to the betting operations on football matches of a well-known Dunedin "sport." This individual was credited with winning £IOO by backing the Kaikorai against tho University in their first meeting of I the season,, and, incidentally, was alleged to have approached expert players of local teams, offering them a hat or a pipe, etc., to nothing should their side win matches in which he was financially interested. Tht Rugby Union tonic extreme exception to tho tactics followed by the person named, its members arguing that if payers Iwere offered a bribe to win a match it was not beyond the bounds of possibility that ultimately they might be offered a bribe to lose. The possibility, we now learn, has become an accomplished fact, it being alleged that the "sport" referred to made a tacit offer of £.lO to a well-known I Kaikorai player should his side lose jibe mate]] against University, played jlasfc Saturday. The Kaikorai player, i however, at once refused to be temptjfJ, and, furthermore, ii is understood, ilia, agreed to come I). Un-c the next .mo'tiiig > I' 'he committee of the RagIby Tallin; and •• lite full details of C- • .incident. .:..;;.:.'.d the charge of ■- tempted bribery bo substantiated there is no doubt tho "sport" implicated will be warned off nil grounds under tho jurisdiction of the union. This is the only penalty which it is in the power of the nnio.a to inflict.