A SOCCER WASHOUT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 407, 16 July 1928, Page 6

A SOCCER WASHOUT

REFEREE CALLS A GAME OFF \ JUNIOR game ,at Devonport between Shore and-Ponsonby was very hotly contested and, with the score 2-2 about 10 minutes from time, tempers became very touchy and play was somewhat sultry. A Shore colt was brought down by a Pony with a doubtful tackle, and with both on the ground the local man applied his toe where it was calculated to inflict the least serious injury. The referee invited the irritated one to take a cup of tea before the'rush set in, and awarded a free against the original offender. A fiery Shore veteran, who had been pressed into strange boots to give the colts a hand, is understood to have expressed a candid opinion that a bubblepipe would fit the controlling official better than . a whistle. So he, too, received a notice to quit. Further murmurings caused the worried official to call the game off, and the washout will come up for laundering by the judicial authorities to-mor-row evening.