FOOTBALL.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLII, Issue 3, 20 January 1909, Page 14

FOOTBALL.

Professionalism Discounted 'the Scottish Rugby Union has cancelled its annual inateli with England, one of the six internationals for the Calcutta Cup which have been played without intermission since 1890. The grounds of the cancellation are that the E.R.U. sanctioned payments to tlie All Blacks and Wallabies of a guinea per week each, in addition to their travelling and hotel expenses. The Union also complains that the Anglo-Welsh team of 1908 received a daily travelling allowance. The committee of the S.R.U. was unanimously of opinion that these payments are contrary to the principles of amateur football and amount to professionalism. Mr. .Tas. MacMalion, manager of the Wallabies, states that allowances to footballers on tour were unthought of in Australia until the visit of the Rev. Mullineux’s team, the members of which all received daily allowances for expenses over and above the cost of board and Mr. MacMahon reminds the Scottish Union that the team captained by D. R. Bedell-Sievright, one of Scotland’s foremost internationals, also received allowances during its tour of Nexv Zealand and Australia. The Wallabies were simply following the English I'nion’s rule, and they were confident that they were not infringing the laws of amateurism in any shape dr form. The Australian Footballers. Tlatley defeated the Australian League players by 12 points to 5, the home team scoring three goals and two tries to the Australians’ goal and a try. The Wallabies’heat a British and Cilifton team by one goal and two tries (ll points) to one try (3 points).