FOOTBALL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 15 June 1925, Page 5

FOOTBALL.

ASSOCIATION CODE. THE OFFSIDE RULE. (Received Monday, 9.25 a.m.) PARIS, Sunday. A meeting of the 'lnternational Association Football Board altered the offside law so that a player shall not bo offside if two instead of three opposing players are between him and the opposing goal line. It was also decided that a player throwing in from the touch must stand outside the line instead of with the feet thereon. —Reuter. VERY SLOW PROGRESS. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Interviewed on arrival, the master of the Mararoa, Captain Sewell, said that the southerly gale sprang up at Wellington at 6 p.lll. on Saturday and the full force was felt as the vessel reached the heads.

“We sighted I’enearrow Heads at 8.40 o’clock on Saturday night and we sighted the Kaikouras at 10.30 last night. That means that we took about 254 hours for 85 miles,” he said. The weather was bad the whole wav down to Lyttelton and the ship was kept plugging at it all the- trip. CHINESE TEAM. MAY VISIT DOMINION. , -ijisr (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day.

The Auckland Football Association has received a letter from the United Soccer Association of China suggesting a tour of New Zealand in June next year en route to Great Britain-. The team has beaten everything met in the East and suggests a ten weeks' -stay in New Zealand with matches in Christchurch, B'enheim, Wellington, Wairarapa, Wanganui, Manawatu, Tima ru, Taranaki, Rotorua, Gisborne, Hawke’s Bay, Auckland. The cost of a New Zealand tour is estimated at £SOOO.

On account of the shortage of grounds at Carterton, the Martinbor-ough-Masterton third-grade game on Saturday will be played at Greytown.