THE WILSON FOOTBALL CASE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 974, 15 November 1910, Page 4

THE WILSON FOOTBALL CASE.

REMARKS BY HIS HONOUR. Among the case? on the criminal calendar now before the Supreme Court ie that in which a football player named Arthur Wilson—popularly known as "Ranji" Wilson—is charged in conntotioii ■with injury sustained by another player named Duilio Calcinai during the progress of the Athletic-Poneke senior pads match on August 6- The case was referred to in the charge to the Grand Jury by the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout), yesterday. His Honour said:— "So far as my experience goes this is the. first case of its kind that has come before the Supreme Court. Luckily, the injury' inflicted proved less serious than was at first anticipated, but the. offence Iβ still a grave one. . Football as it used to be played in the olden days was a sport that everyone would like to see encouraged. I should have thought thai tho regulations of the various clubs would have been sufficient to prevent cases of this kind coming before the.Court. As an old footballer it seems to me entirely inept to merely punish a footballer by disqualifying him for a game or a season. The thing would be to disqualify the team containing offending members. If that wero done teams would quickly see to it that undesirable practices were prevented." '■''■■