FOOTBALL.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 7 April 1927, Page 7

FOOTBALL.

SOME RUGBY REMINISCENCES. By Cables —Press Association —Copyright. Sydney "Sun” Service. (Received April 6, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, April 5. “It has always been a matter of regret that the Rugby code w 3.5 not universally adopted throughout the Dominions,” said Mr Alfred St. George Hamerslev, who was reciting in “The Evening News” how he participated in tho first Angla-Scottish International match, and was the originator of Rugby in Canterbury and Vancouver. He says that all who have seen the All Biacks realise Australia’s and Canada’s loss in not adopting Rugby. He- recalls the first New Zealand match in 1874, played at Ashburton, between North and South Canterbury, the players travelling fifty miles and fording rivers in coaches, and returning that evening.

LEAGUE DISLOYALISTS. By T«las'»w»h —Press Association. WELLINGTON, April 6. At a meeting of the Wellington Rugby League a proposal to debar the men suspended by tho New Zealand League from admission to the grounds was deferred till a report was received from headquarters. Mr W. Desmond, one of tho two Wellington representatives, said if there there had been no strike, the New Zealand Council would have made £BOOO and the team would have won 80 per rent of its games. They bad to contend with disloyal players who made it verv hard for the rest. Personally he had no complaint The strikers got absolutely what they deserved.