FOOTBALL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19367, 25 July 1925, Page 6

FOOTBALL.

RUGBY IN WANGANUI REPRESENTATIVE FIXTURES ARRANGED. Aug. 8. —v. Taranaki, at New Plymouth. Aug. B.—v. Waikato, at Wanganui. Aug. 29.—v. Manawatu, at Palmerston North. Sept. s.—Wanganui-Taranaki v. New South Wales, at Hawora. Sent. 16.—v. Southland, at Invercargill. Sept. 19.—v. Otago, at Dunedin. Sept. 23.—v. S. Canterbury, at Timaru. Sept. 26.—V. Canterbury, at Christchurch. Sept. 30.—v. Wellington, at Wellington. Oct. 3.—v. Bay of Plenty, at Wanganui. WANGANUI SUB-UNION. Today.—v. Taihape. at Tailiape. July 29. —v. Rangitikei (hfaori Shield), at Wanganui. Aug. 1. —v. Rangitikei. at Wanganui. LOCAL JOTTINGS NOTES AND COMMENTS. Th'* al n-pr?-•■irati\e fifteen motor t rning to ])«: y the ■J ■ ■ \ r side will be at full strength. and the stale of lhe ground might have a bearing on the Wanganui enthusiasts will have the jmi - a r<h on the Ke«'. to-day to ailra* it *nt "H. Rangitikei <on’ -’ng n : p ;.v Wanganui. This will of s< eing the X« a curtail, raiser to the junior fix . w 1 hoi t the -i>.2 Wanganui Wa\»*rley being -a ■ Mart or aihape. kftcr 1i .• • - !...■■! reps, to play Tara r>ak <'ii X.ii i'i s and also to take part :u annual tournament will probably \r e aiu.il thi< ail'-i noon the ; - .a in’, r - and mal' h i> to be de- , . .... I- ... k- Bike yet another win i ■_ ; u"\ i-r knows. 1 ■ hapo. represent - til - I a n. an t his plav will b< follow•■i vi ■ h it •’ ntere.-d through WL. on i 1 ■ ' o: the inter •• •• ■1 . 1 -• i" ■ o ’! • v ar writer has an dea that the New lorn put t - on and b> day s niai' h '. •th e to be a-lovih-d oui " the principal centres. Wh; h brings one to the object in .‘w. \\ 1 . n- I apply l°r next year's mat< h ft r'Wanganui? The gr< at sm • . \ Black Trial sts to 1 pa played on t ..ok'< Garden-, being a big success •.Ram-.ally a- we!! as d< n- the game Rugby Union will ... that * hen the <!.• s played their first match in this i einlrv til* at tendance was just ardor 1 ."»>•' ;i h.| the gale takings a tile <1 or’ . ’ ; nr fgur'-s. Whi«4i fact • k \ a Zea and I nion by storm the ’ turn wore just twice Us much Next Saturday the h’angitikei ropre the Wanganui bam on th«* Ke.-. To . . g an th< Rang . . fixture here next week should en at. .- th*- -• !■• >ele tor to get a firsters’ for in, so that wren !.-• the heavy task of '..decting two trams for the following Saturday. Xugu t 8 one to go to New . ay Laranaki and the • W a kato on the Rec. rh..- fail abiiitv m plavers in the runnin° i>< ’■ p- L- , U"urs will base been ful!v - -!. Bui that won't make Dr. Adams' ia-k any the lighter! the AX an • r anur •••:• <• -• it. ali' ••> ' southern tour a-o-r makui" the trip. This is the mini Toreeno-nts f rcouirea «an be ><-:it and Wellington. 1' '<■ reserves ouglc «mi: ■-. it >ugg' sl‘ '■ th’ l ' l^e b.*an a . nn Mon • • morning yk- and Tadmi-'- players at Marton and connect then* with the Main Trunl for Wi i ngton so as to break a 10.’4 . a run at the Capita • ■ VC 1 u vereargill until late at night on tin fi' 1 i- a tail I; ate of "* thl ' lri ! Thonch 1-tU'll I' >"■" r,, r rticularly so whei barrackers a. use him of |nrtmhly ' «« Australia! of the leading country rities the «tb ■ rgc of it. Hi habit is to t;ddr• ■ the men as “br< was er ■ • . ■ icnt’s mark • ‘Got back, bn thcr.” ’ ? man vTh the mark, whos v • . ■ - scores. 1 urne<i 1 1. ' * Did y o ‘brother. -■ ■' The un virv m -.rh.- fool; a lit. and laughed s p i h that b could only blow hi All p’. ■t- tak i.g ptirt in the I’rin arv S. li ’ - ton ra . .nent • curtain rais< to the Juni r rep. mat'll on the Re this af’. rnoo.i. are asked to assembl at the Rev. M l_’.p.m. D. Derbyshire. the well know Kaierau f- .übn’b-r. left for Am.-klau vesterda' to p!ny tor Wellington Con . • •- ’ x- at ion again th’ 1 Au k an 1 <'omniercial Traveller Association in a match which tak< jdare to day-

Mr. Harold Baker, who has been appointed manager of the New South Wales team, is a brother of the famous “Snowy” Baker, and is a celebrated boxing referee. He was in his time a famous Rugby player, as well as being a great all-round athlete. Extract from a report of this week’s Canterbury Rugby Union meeting: A challenge from the Auckland Union to play for the -Ranfurly Shield match in the event of the Canterbury team being the holders when the match was played at Auckland between the two provinces was declined. Napi'-r High School’s challenge for the Moascar Cup is apparently to come off this season. Though not strong enough for Te Ante, they might stand a chance with any other school team in Xew Zealand. The backs went nicely !;,st Saturday, says a Napier scribe.

Only one Aucklander was available, . I ('uoke. Several Wellington nominees 1 • were subsequently found to be not 1 available, including Nicholls and Sven- I | son. says tin* Manawatu Times. Sly’s I selection is tardy justice for the treat- ; ment meted out to him last year at I Wanganui by Mr. W. A. Guy in connecII ion with the All Blacks* trial, for i which game Slv was one of the northern reserves. | <’hildish imitation is not restricted to jciriot*. When the All Blacks were abroad the cables and letters informed , New Zealand that several English ivams followed ihe practice—unknown IliiTi', except on rural grounds—of reon the Held at half-time. Now '' hr.-t’s College. the ancient Christchurch School, has followed suit, com-[ ju<nts the Napier Telegraph, it’s the; ■ thing, of course, to bo English. Noth ing Now Zealand conditions and re-; i quirements evolved —the Moascar Cup ; ! 1 or instance—could ever be good] j enough. What? ; Tf Pickrang. a half-caste Zulu, who! i plays Rugby for Ashburton, doesn't ; put on too much weight, he should be-j i come a Rugby champion. He played Jin the sub-unions match, and was un- ’ lucky not to be picked to represent the Country next week, lie is but .18 i years of age. enormous of frame—he ! weighs last—and is very fast. Last. | season ho played his first game. It j was in a second-grade side, and lie i opened by grabbing the ball and run- , iiing the wrong way. Tt took two of hi< team to drag him down. He was promptly dropped, but this year the first grade team gave him a trial, with I th*' result that he already is a southern ' sub-unions representative. I The constitution of the amalgamated :Rugby unions of Manawatu and Horo’.vlicniia was finally approved and signori at Le\in over the week-end, says the ! !a■ ■ -. M<- • > s A . li .Hina;.. president of the Manawatu Rugby Eootball I nion, his executive officer, Mr. J. B. Proud, and accompanied by Mr. A. S. • l iirt'. vice-president, who took a leading part in the negotiations. J. R. Hartl ‘asurer . K. W. Eglinton and ’ ' W. White, went down from Palmerston ; North and mot the full executive of .the Horowhcnua Rugby Vnion. The i signed constitution goes forward im- ; mediately tn Wi llington for ratification bv the N-'w Zealand Rugby Football Vnion. The two full committees meet at Palmerston North on Saturday. Aug-u-t 8. to elect the first combined execu- , t' v, ‘. who h will later that evening hold i - inaugural meeting. The amalgama'tion takes elfect at once. The fixture ■with Horowhenua has therefore been 1 altered from August 15 to August 8 to i enable the first “combined” team 1o •be <hos:-n to meet Southland at Pal- . merston North on Wednesday, August I 1 -- ! The results of the matches between I teams represent ing the North and South I.lands are as follow:--

v.mti 11. South won 7. drawn 2. Points j ior: North, 270; South. 181. J RUGBY POINTERS < By | Thrills and Spills.—The only thinp ; lacking in the motor-bike football (®i j last week was that the referee shouk , I have been in an airship with a gun, t; < j that he could have ‘‘potted’’ those ’ ■ r ri<t< who were flagrantly guilty ••• • ’ trials nearly a l '• • l i>tl.-.-s in playing wen , •i- . ; r.f tb.et’: Sf» :J>snrr i! is given a good chat ove •‘Ail On.” —Our of the junior ful 1 j ■ •••.■• week did quite a lot of kick ing and running up to put his men ot • > de. but in several instances was it ' ’ iir h v. hen ho should have been ii •play and at other times actually rat p ! ahe-id of his men wide-out- withou ’i calling “all on.’’ Also at times tb« 11 ‘ players—off side—pounced on to thei i ppom nts before they had been put oi I "ide. even though they w'ere less thai ' i ’j\ ' ;.rds away from the man receiving " j the ball.

Anticipation.—A good thing occasionally with a referee, but not so good with the line-umpire as one of these gentlemen found at the Rec. last week. 'Thinking the ball was bound to go out the umpire raised his flag, but fortunately the referee did not notice it and the “reps.” played right on. A

good miss. Love at First Sight. The rep. trial game produced a good sample of the above, ami one wing-forward had his arm across his opponent and was holding him the while a five-yard scrum was in progress. It looked pretty, no

doubt, and being under the referee's nose lhe wonder was that it passed un-

Bad Old Rule.--That of jumping up at the ball during the taking of a free kick was in luiged in during the senior trial game, both players and referee, apparently forgetting the new and better rule.

Pinched! What a mercy only one referee was acting at the Rec. last Saturday, as he was relieved of his spare cash while out whistling. This was all the more regrettable, as ho invariably invites the writer to a refresher afterw a rds. AH Blacks-Aussie. —A New Zealand visitor who saw the recent games in Australia reckons that the Aussies will have a lot of penalties against them here if they indulge in their usual play, such as “lying on lhe ball,” 11 passing oft’ the ground,” etc. We are very hot on these breaches in New Zealand. Time for Interchange.—Why doesn’t the New Zealand Union send a good local referee to do some curtain-raisers whene'er an All Black team goes to Australia? Would surely produce good results if both countries took up such an attitude. A Wellington ‘‘whistler’’ did take one of the Aussie curtainraisers recently, but it had not been I arranged when the referee left with the team. A Bad Habit.—lndulged in by some of the aspiring reps. Inst week was that bad habit of going into a man who had just kicked the ball, oxen when lhe following-up player had ample time to dodge aside. This method begets its own punishment, both from the referee

and occasionally the opponent, and he i was lucky not to be ‘‘blown up’’ by j , the ‘‘whistler” more than it was. “Bunny Hugging.”—Why do our ’ | local forwards hug the ball after getting it on the line-outs? Several not- , I able players, every time they get the ball like this, hug it like a brother, lower their heads and try Io batter 'their way through. Result. nearly every time, “held ball.” nobody guilty * apparently, and so the inevitable scrummage. Invariably the chap taking the ball is immediately tacr.b'd, and as he 'fails to drop the ball his side should I have a free kick given against them. i Tht'se “hugging leads to nowhere” scrums are no use to the game, and I are undoubtedlv tiring for the .plovers. Where, Oh Where?--Where was the I appointed liangitikvi referee who was 'to take last week > senior trial game? Fortunately. Froimml lived close to I thegßec.. and so was aldo to gel, his > logs quickly, otherwise' the delay would ; have been greater than it was. Bluff.—Two players were trying to ■take the same ball from a high kick. Ono succeeded, whereupon Ihe other i claimed a mark. Fortunately the reforce noticed the trick and didn’t whis- ; jtlp. Tim ruli* distinctly states “the: i catcher must immediately claim the ; sp. (>)•■ by making a mark at the spot or by calling out ‘mark.’ “Joseph” Team. —The weird and I wonderful get up. the multi-coloured ■ jerseys, pants and stockings, of some of the prospective reps, was a sight last 1 Saturday. Goodness only knows how jibe ref'-rao kept track of the right I sides—«o many were playing off-side jat times—and it wasn’t fair for the 'players to come out in such a confusion iof colours. I saw two “reps.’’ collar i men of their own side three different times, and “pinched” (off-side) passes ' wore a giftI Hunterviiie Again.—The recent an'pwer given in this column to a HunI terville correspondent has caused quite a controvert- both there and locally. ■ and the ruling has been much quesi tienod. To quality my previous remarks I propose to both ask and answer I some questions hereunder, which I hope i will clear up the position: ; Question. —When can a player tackle lor collar an opponent'? ) Answer. —Only when the opponent is ; Carrying the ball. Question. —When can a player be said 1 to be carrying the ball? Answer.—Only when the ball is in . bis pososssiun and he is wholly supj ported by his feel. I Question. —Can a man. on the ground 'on top of the ball, accidentally or de- ; libcratelv. be said to be in possession | of the ball? The whole argument hinges on this last question, and ] submit that such a man on the ground is temporarily out of the garni' and if ho doos not immediately get up. roll away, or part with the ball, ho must be penalised. Likewise any opponent interfering with this m:in must be penalised. f Under “penalties.” pages 27 and 28 m in the Rule Book, we have this: Law I | IL—All penalties living free kicks. (1) . ■ o < flic ground does not irnme- : diately get up; (2) prevents an opponent from getting up or putting the ball j down: . ‘ lih'galh tackles, charges, or j j obstructs; bl) wilfully holds an oppon- , | ent who has not got the ball. ij i !i<'>< if the referee docs not , ! penalise tha man on the ground, who mt m able to get away from 1 ihe ball, he certainly should not con- • r.c any pulling off the ground by an ! b.;t -A.r-Jd blow his whistle ,’under the heading that play is “too . dargvrou,.” ;uH j ; rummage. a On the other hand, if a player deliber--1 atcly lies on the ground and makes no t attempt to got up or part with the ball. p he should be penalised long before any r melee can form and men have to bo n dragged nut by the legs. The penalty „ may bo either a free-kick or, in cer,f tain cases, a penalty try. Down and ’ up’s a good Rugby maxim. Appreciation.—ln order to’show their - appreciation of his services and to mark the arrival of another “referee” ». in his family. Secretary Millard was L _ made the recipient (on behalf of the y young shaver) of a silver mug at last 1- Monday’s meeting. The new arrival. it will be remembered, showed marked refereeing instincts during his first week, and with the mug and a silver r whistle it is hoped these strong hereT, ditarv traits will bo fostered.

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