FOOTBALL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17566, 17 June 1925, Page 4

FOOTBALL.

t;ie rugby game. CANTERBURY UNION. The Management Committee of the Canterbury Rugby Football Union met last night. Present—Messrs A. E. M’Phail (in the chair), E. V. Phillips, A. Duggan, W. Maxwell, W. Britten, C. S. M’Cully, A. Barrett, It. H. North, C. W. Allard, J. K. Moloney, It. Britton and G. P. Payne. Writing in reply to the union's letter regarding the provision of a dressing shed at Opawa Park, the Town Clerk stated that the matter had been referred to the Deserves Committee. A letter was received from the ’Varsity Football Club regarding the club’s junior team defaulting to Ivaiapol ©n June 6. The failure of the team to attend was through an unexpected misunderstanding among the players. As the college opened after vacation only on June «?. it was impossible to get in touch with all the members of the team. The club regretted the inconvenience caused to the referee and the spectators. With regard to the club’s teams defaulting on May SO, it. was stated that the committee of the club had decicktd that during the college-cvacation as many teams as possible should play each week so instead of sending in a list of teams which would default for the the whole vacation the secretary was instructed to send In a list to the Rugby Union each week. Owing to the acting secretary being call ..-d out of town on short notice the weekly notice to the union regarding defaulting teams was unfortunately overlooked. The explanations were accepted. Regarding the proposed tour of the Dominion by a Maori team the New Zealand Union wrote stating that it had not been finally decided that this tour should be abandoned. The letter continued: —“The position is that we have asked the Maori Advisory Board to forward to us full details of the tour, covering the number of players, the cost of assembly, outfitting, the matches to be played and the guarantees received from the unions to receive visits. Pending receipt of this information my union has not authorised the tour.” The letter was received. The following letter was received from the secretary of the New Brighton Football Club:—“ln reply to a copy of a letter from the Albion Club sent by you to the New' Brighton Club, iny committee are of the opinion that they (Albion) have been very much misinformed. We have no knowledge of a split In the New Brighton Club and up to date do not know of any members wanting clearances to join up with Albion. . . At present we cannot quite understand the letter saying that six of our members resigned, which is quite contrary to fact.” It was decided to send a copy of the lettei* to the Albion Club. The Hurunui Sub-Union wrote applying for a grant of £5 towards footballs. There are about twenty schools in the sub-union’s district. The letter was referred to the Finance Committee. The Christchurch Journalists' Union wrote asking the Rugby Union to support an application to the Lancaster Fark Board of Control for better accommodation for the reporters at the park. The letter .was received and it was decided to instruct the union’s representatives on the board to give allwthe support possible towards providing better accommodation for the reporters. The Albion Football Club wrote stating that the club’s senior team had had caster Park each Saturday. The club asked that electric lights should be provided. It was decided to have the matter attended to. The Kaiapoi third grade A team was given permission to withdraw from the competition, and the Tramway team from the second grade competition. With regard to the Northern v. Southern Sub-Unions' game and the Town v. Country game, the chairman said that the original arrangement was that the sub-unions’ match should be played on Wednesday, July 22, and the Town v. ! , Country match on July 25. However, with the representative matches coming i on all the Saturdays possible were required for the competition matches. It was now proposed that the sub-unions’ match should be played on Wednesday, July 15, and the Town v. Country match on July 22. This proposal was agreed to. It was stated that this would leave six Saturdays to finish off the senior competition, though seven were really required. SATURDAY’S MATCHES'. The following are the matches, grounds, and referee's for Saturday:— Linwood v. North ‘Canterbury, Rangiora : b <m? Cade); Albion a bye. Senior B—Riccarton v. ’Varsity, Ric.carton No. 1 (Mr J. Bradshaw); Merivaie v. Christchurch, Lancaster Park West (Mr S. Barnett) ; Technical a bye. d.A. r " ti Albi Walker) ; win by default! Second Grade, B Section—Old Collegians v. Sydenham, Elmwood Park No. 1 (Mr A. J. Mason); Rapaki v. West Old Boys, Opawa Park No. 1 (Mr S. C. Murray); Technical a, live. Third Grade A, A Section—’Varsity A v. St Andrew’s Old Boys, St Andrews (Mr L. Clarkson); Merivale v. Old Boys A, Merivale N.P. (Mr L. ITardie) ; North Canterbury v. Wharenui, to be played later; Christchurch A v. Y.M.C.A.. Y.M.O.A. N.P. (Mr W. Turner); St Bedes win. by default. V. A: Schmidt); Old Boys B v. Linwood, Old Hoys N.P. No. 2 7 (Mr K. 11. Perrin); ’Varsity B v. Hal swell, 'Varsity N.P. No. 5 (Mr F. E. King); Old Collegians v. Christchurch B, Christchurch No. 7 N.P. (Mr H. Rollinson). Third Grade A, C Section—Riccarton v. North Brighton, Polo No. 1 (Mr A. I). Moore); Sydenham a bye; Albion v. West Christchurch Old Boys, West Old Boys No. 2(5 S.P. (Mr L. Hunt); Sumner v. Kaiapoi B, Polo No. 2 S.P. (Mr P. C. Jones). Third Grade B (under 20)—’Varsity B v. B. 11. School, B.H. School N.P. (Mr J\ Barnett); 'Varsity A v. Technical, ISnsor’s Road (Mr M. T. Fuller); North Canterbury v. Merivale A, Polo No. 3 S.P. (Mr A. Rollinson); Y.M.C.A. v. Old Boys A, Polo No. 4 S.P. (Mr G. T. Weston): Merivale B v. Rapaki. Merivale S.P. No. 28 (Mr 10. Rudkin); Old Boys B v. S-t Andrews, St Andrews (Mr T. Bain); Linwood a bye. Fourth Grade, A Section—Technical v. Merivale A, Polo No. 5 S.P. (Mr A. R. Henderson) West Old Boys v. Albion, Albion S:P. (Mr M. Campbell) ; Boys High School v. Old Boys A. Wharenui No. 13 N.P. (Mr G. G. Denniston). Fourth Gra.de, B Section—Linwood v. Riccarton, Riccarton No. 2 (Mr G. S. Bill cliff) ; Belfast v. Old Boys B, ’Varsity N.P. No. 29 (Mr H. Cox); Merivale B v. Christchurch, Christchurch No. 24 N.P. (Air E. E. Luttrell); Sydenham a Fifth Grade—Sydenham v. Limvod B, Sydenham Park (Mr J. R. Murphy); Albion B v. North Canterbury, Rangiora No. 2 (Air W. C. Templeton): Albion A v. North Brighton. New Brighton (Mr A. Hooper) ; Technical v. Merivale A, Polo No. 8 (Mr Ij. Guiney) ; Kaiapoi v. Merivale B, Kaiapoi No. 2 (Air P. Lindsay); Linwood a bye. Sixth Grade—Merivale v. Technical A, Lancaster Park South, 3.30 (Mr O. U. Fraser); Ndrth Brighton a bye; Sydenham v. Technical B, Lancaster Park Oval, 3.30 (Air P. Harvey); Linwood v. Technical C, Lancaster Park West, 3.30 (Mr W. Cowles). Schoolboys—Linwood A v Sydenham, 'Varsity No. 5 N.P., 3.30 (Air P. W. Campbell); Merivale v. Albion, Merivale N.P., 1.30 (Air J. Beattie); Christchurch v. Linwood B, Christchurch No. 7 N.P., 1.30 (Air C. F. I’ratt). “ LYTTELTON TIMES ” v. “ SUN.” A friendly match was played in the North Park yesterday afternoon, between teams representing the staffs of the “ Lyttelton Times ” and “ Sun ” newspapers. There was a large crowd of supporters of both teams watching the game, which resulted in a win for the “ Lyttelton Times ” team by six points to three. For the win ners, Buckley and Gerard scored tries, and Hutchings obtained a try for the losers. Members of the " Lyttelton Times ” team provided light refreshments. Mr L. ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL. ROUGH PLAY IN OTAGO, ACTION OF REFEREES. (Special to the “Star.”) DUNEDIN, June Ifi. A meeting of the Otago Referees Club tr—night di.--cussed at length on incident wldcii wus reported to the Otago Foot-

ball Association on Monday night. The referee of the match between Mornington and Mosgiel on Saturday stated that he had had occasion to order off a Mosgiel player. The player questioned the referee’s action in a “very ungentlemanly manner,” using bad language. The referee ordered him to leave the held, but the player continued to harangue him. “about various matters.” The player had been instructed to appear before the association on Monday, but did not attend. It was decided if explanation of absence Was not forthcoming by Thursday that he would not be allowed to play on Saturday. The Referees’ Club passed a resolution that a deputation should wait upon the chairman of the Otago Football Association suggesting that he should call a special meeting of the executive to go into the case, stating that the appointment o? referees for Saturday had been deferred in the meantime. Further discussion took place on the prevalence of rough play and the use of obscene language, and also the attitude A lengthy discussion took place on Law 13, which reads, “An)' offence towards a referee off the field will be dealt with as if such had occurred on the field of play.” It was reported that northern centres were watching recent. ' doings in Otago football with keen in-