FOOTBALL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 196, 19 September 1900, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

——-. ALLEGATIONS AGAINST THE CAN'IEHJiURY TEAM.

(PISII lUIKS3 ASSOCIATION.)

OiiitiSTCiiait'jii, S ,ptaabor 18,

At a meeting of tho Committee of the Rugby Union, attention was drawn to charges made against the Canterbury team which recently visited Loos ton by Mr. Walter Spring, hotelkeepor fit. Leeston, in tho columns of the " Sportsman." Spring, in reply to a request to attand, wroto stating that he had nothing to add to what ho had already written, but enclosing a statementfrom the licensee of the Springston Hotel that nine members of the Canter-' bury team visited her hotel and had nine drinks, for which they paid 2s 6d, and also possessed themselves of some bottles of lemonade which were not paid for. The Committee, after hearing the evidence of Mr. Evans, one of tho officials who accompanied thv team, was satisfied that theio wore no grounds for tho chargos made by Spring, which ware quite unwarranted, It was decided to the Hpriugston incident, nt a meeting oti Tuesday next, and t> oil upon the members of the team to b<> pre-sonf.

Tho Wanganui-Turanaki ma'ch takes place at Iliwtra to-day. Tiu visiting team arrived here 011 Tu Hdiy morning from Auckland and p it in some pia::tice at the Recreation Grounds. Two other teams were also in town on Tuesday, viz., the Oingo and Wellington association pkyeo--, who were en route to Auckland. L.st.iad of having a practice they mlopled a suggestion to play a sTavii nwieh, which was r> with much pleasure by as large a number of people as could bo expected, considering that ihe game was played during business hours and the limited notice.