ROUGH RUGBY MATCH

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 105, 20 May 1937, Page 8

ROUGH RUGBY MATCH

* Similar Tactics Not To Be Tolerated PROTEST AGAINST M.A.C. Tsctica »uch u were u«ed in the M.A.C.-Technieal O.B. clash at McLean Park, Napier, on Saturday afternoon last will not 1>e tolerated by the Hawke's Bay Bugby XJnion, which. last evening deeided to susppnd for two playing Satordays the three players, J. To Ngaio and W, Mataira (M.A.C.) and E„ Brooke (Teehnieal) who were ordered from the field in the "game 'in question. The special sub-committee from the Hawke 's Bay Eugby XJnion and the Hastings Snb-XJnion appointed to deal with the matter'made it fully clear to ihe captains that the games xnoet be kept in controL s"We have come to the deeision that th.e "ihree players in qpestion shonld be gtood down for two playing Saturdays," reported the chairman, Mr J. W. Norrie, to the meeting of the nnion in Napier last evening. "At the same timo we discussed the match with the tw« captains, and in view of the general eonducfc of the game empha-' jaseji that they mnst endeavour to controi the play, and that the union will not tolerate-a repetition of the exhibifion last Saturday. , /'It was * deplorable exhibition, but I am not snre that the players were altogether to blame. The epectators* were a eontributing f actor. ' ' $he nnion deeided that in future instead, of reporting • bofh to the subrminn and the nnion in games when elnbs from eaeh body were involved, fhe speciai anb-COmmittee shonld deal with players or^ered off, meeting. in the, tow4. *rom. whence a majority of the offaider* camei Meetings ara to be h«K tha night pxeceding the nnion Axiaong ont oi the same game, a protest iroai Teehnieal 03. was recelred in^Mtnl .to the playing by MJLO* of AAFteti/who, thpy contended, had not jftmbed' ihe necesaary residential quilifiaetions. The club considered, as Peetl had plsyed for a Dannevirke club and not obtained a elearanee and had vSjSd his fcfme in Dannevirke doring th.# week-ends, that he was not a bona fide rerident of the district. A'ftAT conaddering the letter from Teehnieal 0.B., Mr A. D. Lynch moved that the M.A.C. Club be asked to prove Peeti's residential qualification, but tHis was objeeted to by Messrs A. Kixkpatiick and N. A, McKenzie, on « the grounds that the onus of proof rested with Teehnieal. After discussidn on these lines, at was deeided to defer the matter pending the receipt of M.A.C.'a statement Tegarding the question. , . At the meeting Mr J. W. Norrie presided over Messrs N« A. McKenzie, B. Tweedie, W. D. Corbett, E. A. Young, A. D. Lynch, A. Eirkpatrick, B. X. Harrison, F. Cray, H. V. Phillips, J. W. Callagban, E. A. Maseley, B. A. Grenside, L. E. Harris, and W. Lockhead.