SCOTLAND AND RUGBY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17536, 13 May 1925, Page 11

SCOTLAND AND RUGBY.

ANOTHER HERESY HUNT. ALL BLACK MATCH INVOLVED. Scotland has dropped another bombshell into Rugby football in Wales, -ays the “Athletic News” (.Manchester') of March 23. At. flic interna.! ion a I Rugby Board meeting at Edinburgh the grave charge was made against the Welsh Rugby I nion that they bad definitely and flagrantly broken the laws oi amateurism and had professionalised themselves anil Ibcir players. This sensational allegation wa.s the result of the special training put in at .Portheawl by the Welsh team prior to the international game with the All Blacks at Si. Helens on November 29. It will he remembered that 1 lie whole Welsh team, with reserves, spent a week at Fori brawl. BROKEN TIME ALLEGATION. file Scottish Union allege that on -. hai occasion the Welsh Union professionalised ibemselvcs b.v the following raving train lares lor those players amounting m nearly U2O. Fay : ng taxi fares for players, amounting to £_*• * 1 \ iiiv Lc -S * lor hotel expenses for players at Rorlhcawl. Facing Cl 20 to player, in I,Yu of -.rages (hey had 10-r through being in training a I Porl hrawi instead of following iltcir ordinary vocations. SFCR ETA 7? Y'S EM PH A TIC DENIAL. Mr Walter Rees, spore! ary <ff the M c!-h Union, was inclined to I*-* retiren, over ihe matte: when approached hy the ‘ Aihleiic News” representai ivc. * -<>i course. lip said, “the players had the special i raining ni Forihcawl. ami the Welsh Union paid their hotel expense,. Bid In suggest that ilie M eUli | nion paid them wages f r, r work I «»-1 is ‘absolute burikum.’ " Ii is curious how ihe Scot fish Union officials obtained the figures, as no bal-ance-sheet has yet been certified by Hie responsible officials of the Welsh Union (Dr Eocvn .Tones Mr .Tames Jarreii. and Mv Walter Rees) with regard to the New Zealand match. There the matter now rests, as apparently Ihe "Welsh representatives on (he Interim! iona I Board were able to convince their colleagues that there had been no offence.