BITING AND PUNCHING

Chronicle (Levin), 19 June 1946, Page 5

BITING AND PUNCHING

league test game SYDNEY, June 18. The English centre three-quarter Jack Kitcliing, was ordered from the field in yesterday's Rugby League test | niatch, for puneliing. It was claimed | later that he had been bitten by an Australian player. This morning's Telegraph publishes a f rontpage pieture of Kitcliing being ! examined by a masseur, in which marks . which coulcl be teeth marks, are plairi-J ly visible. He was given medieal atten- j tion for a fiesh wound on the left side. j Kitching claimed that when rollingl into a tackle he felt a sharp bite and J that he pushed his opponent with botli j hands to try to release the grip of the : teeth. He was then ordered ofL The | Rugby League 's medieal officer refused to express an ojiinion. The Australian Rugby League cap- ' tain, .Joe Jorgenson, today (lemanded an official inquiry into Ihe charge that ; lie'bit tlie English centre three-quarter, I Jack Kitching, who was sent olf after punching Jorgenson who had been tackled by Ernest Ward. Jorgenson : said today that he'resented the charges ( made by Kitching and wanteil the op- 1 portunity to deny then ollicially. Ajipareiitly tlie League judiciary eommittee which heard Kitching 's case last night, did not attacli any blame to j Jorgenson or he would have been cited' to appear. The referee's evidence was' that Jorgenson could not possibly have ; bitten Kitching from tlie position in which he was at tlie time.