A Football Fracas.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 1 July 1910, Page 4

A Football Fracas.

A DISGRACEFUL SCENIH. Tho Gislyorno. Times says:—Wliait should prove it'lu; deiaiili-iblo;w to the: incu.sion of certain teams in the local Rugby football competition, if the Poverty Hay ]?ug:by Union do tiheii duty in an impartial nmnninr, >cciuired on Saturday on the Matawliero ground. The JCa,i'ta-Cay teams, senior and' junior, journoved ont to the country groiuuvd to met-t similar trams fram the Hod Stur Chil). The senior match was played in a spirit tllvait all tnio loveirs of S( v cond spell especially being -ne (tontiinual brawl. Tlhe I?ed Star l)layors very innch tlie aggressors, several of the teaiin bein.j tlie worse for liquor. The referoo .-r----f'ricd < iiH pl'\\'r iff the field, .v■■• 'no ct'i -r p!a •..•>• o f (lu •••:» • ie>M. slr)n|i| ha/s hot": i'oi t «'lh in a similar fashion. The player »<ho was ordered off marie the day ' iderni.s with tho lai ho l.std vhiln; st ni-lnijj <-u the. line Moth tho tflivnis playing and the vofevoe '\vnve referred to in language ami in a manner tlhat deserved sumiiMiry puiuishment. On the final whisibte lteiiig blown tho game turned iiiit'o a free fight-, ibnth teams tlaking iwt. Several spectators vainly eudoavoured to put a stop to the unseemly fracas, hut it .was not liniliN a little blood had been spilt that the fifuht tonuinatod.