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TWO QUEENSLAND CLUBS left ihe natdonal league BRISBANE, June 19. Three teams of Mayne Australian Rules players, expressing dissatisfaction with treatment by the Queensland Australian Nationai Football League, have linked up with the Queensland Rugby Union. Australian Ruics officials displayed no apparent alarm, but obviously the Mayne Club's move must have been a rf^0US ^0W* Australian game in Brisbane has not been particulariy strong and the Mayne Club includecl some of its ieading exponents. There is another phase of the trouble whieh has sefc onlookers dqbatmg. The Queensland Rugby Union tftis season has succeeded in attractlnJ* players formerly associatea with other codes, and the f eeling exxsts m some quarters that the Union cofle is becoming a dumping ground for disgruntled players and teams. Even the union chairman (Mr. J, Kane- Maguire) objected to the adI?hfr.0n of I^ayne on this ground, and ?^ne5 P^xnment executive members think jthe Union policy may not be conducive to football diseljpline, And it all happened over the appointment of a referee to control a fngaged! WhiCh Mayne players were
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 142, 3 July 1937, Page 17
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