HIT MAN IN FACE
Player Now Suspended Ordered off in an under-20 section two match between Linwood and Christchurch B on Saturday, a Linwood player, E. S. Shep, will be suspended until he appears before the management committee of the Canterbury Rugby Union. The committee decided this after receiving a letter from the referee (Mr T. L. Gilmore) at fast evening’s meeting.
The player was ordered off “for wilfully striking a Christchurch player in the face after he had tackled him,” said Mr Gilmore. In reply to queries from management committee members, Mr Gilmore said the game—“lively” before the ordering off—was “first-class in the remaining eight minutes;” that the player would have been ordered off even if the referee had not recognised him as a player cautioned earlier; and that Shep was “inclined to manhandle his opponents.” Mr Gilmore said the player struck was completely defenceless at the time and Mr Gilmore expected him to suffer a “broken nose and smashed teeth.”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31092, 22 June 1966, Page 14
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