ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 2047, 6 September 1920, Page 2

ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL.

CANTERBURY MATTERS. COMING EVENTS. Sept. 11-Otago Boys' High School v. a Christehureh Third tirade Team, and second round of English Cup. j Sept. IK— Otago v. Canterbury (first), and | third grade representatives. I Sept. 23—North v. South Island, and visit I of Thomdon Club (Wellington; lo St. Albans Club. I Oct. 2 -English Cup semi-final, j Oct. 7—English Cup final. In addition to the fixtures given above, as arranged by the Canterbury Football Association, the Nomads' Club will send a 'team to Dunediii to play the Kailangata I | Club there next Saturday. This will have I the. effect of putting off ihc semi-final of | the English Cup until October 2, although 'present arrangements are thai the semi-' I finals should he played next Saturday, it j is probable that Hangers II will meet I.ini wood next Saturday, and the winner will play the .winner of the Nomads-St. Albans' ! fixture, possibly on October 7, lor the final. I i The wisdom of the C.F.A. granting a team ! permission to travel is lo be doubted, when I the team has important competition engagements at home. | Advantage is to be taken of the presence of Mr Mclimes with the Otago Hoys' High | School team during the coming week-end, I Inwards formulating some plan of action I i with regard to introducing the code Into | ■ the secondary schools in Christehureh. The ' game lias a very good hold on schools, both I primary and secondary, in Dunedin, which is in marked contrast to the slate of affairs ;in Christehureh. In fact, school football has been neglected in Christehureh, and unless something is done to rectify this state of affairs during the off season now approaching, the C.F.A. cannot expect to proj gress in the other grades, for it is an undoubted fact that the game the boy learns at school is the game he almost invariably I plays in alter life. The London "Sportsman" of July 13 prints some recent decisions of the English filternational Hoard and the Football Association: The Laws of the (lame are amended to ; provide that a player is not "offside" in the case of a throw-In, and therefore the same 1 provisions will now apply to the "throw- , in" as to the "corner kick." This amendi nient has been made, bv the International I Hoard. The remainder of the decisions are injstruclions to referees and are issued by the Football Association. They are: — | The attention of referees is called to the action of some goalkeepers in not* observing j the provisions of Law 8, and to the necessity of referees seeing that such provisions j arc observed. That play should not he stopped and a 1 player given offside under Law (i because the player is in an offside position. A breach of Hie law is only committed when a player who is in an offside position interferes with an opponent or with the. play. Trainers must not lie allowed on the field : of play whilst the game is in progress unless called by the referee. When players are injured, they must be [removed from the field as promptly as possible, and play resumed. i Hefcr'ees must observe tiie regulation that the hall-time interval must not be allowed to exceed live minutes, except with their consent, which is only to be given in exeep--1 tional circumstances. That it is the duty of referees to act upon the information of neutral linesmen with ■ regard to incidents that do not come under the personal notice of referees. The second provision, wilh regard to Lav: fi, is very definite. On several occasions one has seen play stopped simply because a player was in ail "offside" position, even when the play was on the opposite side of the field. The last instruction is mandatory, and practically says that referees "must" accept , the decision of neutral linesmen with regard to breaches of the laws that Ihey did not themselves observe. The triangular primary schools' contest, in which Wellington, Otago and Canterbury are engaged, commenced on Friday, when Wellington defeated the Christehureh boys by seven goals to one. On Saturday, Wellington met Otago, the only goal scored being !in favour of Otago. This game was a good | one to watch, being good, clean football, I fast and open. The boys were not afraid to 'sling the ball about, and both teams gave evidence of careful attention in the matter ; of coaching. It is to be hoped that this primary school event mav be the means of stirring up some interest in school football in Christehureh. I Hangers H accounted for Sunnyside on

Saturday bv one goal to nil, so the first .I round of the English Cup is now finished. j ' Sunnyside made strenuous efforts to ct]ual--IKB the score even playing six forwards i i ' the later part of the game, and it was uu- '' , lucky in not scoring. Poor shooting was ' I responsible for the team's non-success; on 1 I one occasion Bowdcn hod an absolutely open '' goal, and had only to dribble the ball : through, but he shot wide, instead, and so threw away a golden opportunity. On the ! | other hand, it was the sterling defence ofthe hospital team that kept the Rangers' score down, the full-backs and halves ' pulling in some excellent work. Swift also i effected some good saves, and ably sup- ! ported his first and second lines of defence. ; Sunnyside was not served at all well by its left wing-forward. He was too slow in centring and lost many opportunities when his line was in a good position. A peculiar position has arisen with regard to the St. Albans-Nomads match, which was originally scheduled for English Park last Saturday. St. Albans applied to have the match postponed, and the Match Committee | of the C.F.A. planted the request, St. Albans having the official notification of the postponement put up nt the usual place for notifying its members. This notice evidently offended the eye of an official of the Nomads, who apparently did not go to the trouble of verifying the. accuracy or otherwise of the St. Albans notice, but pulled it ■ down, and put up n notification to his club members that the match would he played. I The result was that Nomads turned up in full force last Saturday, and talked ol claiming the match by default, notwithstanding the fact that they had had official notification of the postponement from the secretary of the C.F.A., early in the

morning. The whole matter appears to hinge oil Nomads' visit to Duncdin next Saturday. The C.F.A. has granted the club permission to travel, but no date was arranged, apart rroin Saturdav, September 18, being mentioned as the probable one. 'J lie Match Committee, at the time of granting the St. Albans request for a postponement, was not aware of Nomads' arrangements lor next Saturday, and acted in good faith and under the impression that next Saturday would do for the second round of the English Cup. However, the matter comes before the C.F.A. this evening, and no doubt some satisfactory solution of the problems will be forthcoming. UMPIRE. BROWN SHIELD MATCH. Press Association. WELLINGTON. September I. Wellington (holders) defeated Wanganm (challengers) by 3 goals to 1 in the match for the brown Shield. It was a poor game. AUCKLAND BEATS WELLINGTON. Press Association. AUCKLAND, September I. Auckland defeated. Wellington by 3 goals to U. Tills was not a Shield match.