FOOTBALL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 July 1911, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

DIS APPOINTMENTS

[BY ELECTRIC I'EIiKG(IAPH--COPTRIC*jT.J (_PBU I'REBH ABPOOUTIOS.J, (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Pcarce, as well as Messenger, withdraws from the League team for England. MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE r MEETING. SOMETHING ABOUT MAN'AWATU. A mooting of the Management Committee of the Horowhonun. 'Rnigby Union was held last evolving at The Chronicle, oflic.o, Oxford street, Levin, Mr J. "W. .Proctor pro.s-i<liny;, a.ml tlif. following members present,: Messrs Horn, Wliililov (Koxton). and McMillan, with Mr" "W. K. Burgs (lion, secretary). Tin? selector. A lotttM , was-received- l'roni Mr R. T. Smil.li. accepting, with pleasure, tho position of senior selector in t-1 pkieo ol' Mr .1. S. Kowlor. Tho letter was noted. KROM WANGANUI. Waiiganui Rugby Union wrote asking whether this union would be able to .send a team to ])lay that union tliis season, and asking lor dates. FROM MANAKAU. Tlie holi. secretary of the Jini Mai club wrote asking tho I'nion to add the following players' names to the Hui Mai junior list:—lleta rtifci, Hy Lynch. The names were duly added. IvOPUTAROA\S TROI'BLES.-. The secretary stated that Mr Smith, referee in the match Kopuiaroa. v. Hui Mai, had ordered olf three players. Mr Smith stated that Poara had charged an opponent wJicn he had not got the ball. W'hcn lio oi'dei'od him off the iield ho made insulting remarks whon on tho lino. He said, "There is another player you ought to order off the field." Poara now stated that owing to the sunlight in tho players faces ho could not see tho ball, and lie {lashed into the other player by mistake. The secretary: What about your conduct on the line? Poara replied that the referee, had made a mistake in mentioning hi.s name. lie did not speak; it wa« another person. Tlie chairman: Did not one ol your supporters tell you to "shut up." That he added if you di<! not it would go against you?

Poara : The referee, made a mistake; lie did not allude to me. After some further discussion Mr Horn movo<] that, no further action lie taken, the player, under the circumstances, having hod sufficient punishment l)v being ordered off the field. .Mr Wln'l)ley -seconded t'lie motion, The. motion was 'agreed to, the secretary admonishing; the deli(|iient Iliat ho must be more careful in future. «nnd adding thaifc lie had just got off. Pori, .another offender, also attended with dogard to kicking a player named Diamond in the same match. It \va.s stated, in tho ■■ourse- of the- discussion, that one man kicked the other and tho other punched his rival. The chairman : Are you quite sure yon did not scratch Diamond in the face before lie got you 'bv the. throat? The player: Quite sure. '.Mr Horo said that a,s the oilier player was not present the consideration of the matter might be deferred for tho meanwhile. After some further discussion the .secretary moved that in view of the statement of the referee, tho plnyoii , be cautioned and no further action be taken. The chairman seconded the motion as the player was a junior. The motion was adopted. In admonishing the players as thev left the room the chairman s-,vi;l : You must understand you have got off this time, hut you must not appear he fore u.s again. If you do during our term of Sffice you will not get off! With reference to the case of Diamond, whom the referee vowrrte'.l had struck an opponent in the same match, the socretarv moved that Diamond be disqualified until swell time as lie appear before tho Union. The motion was agreed to. .UAXAWATTT ENCROACHMENTS A.VD TIIK MAX.UYATU-HORO-WHEXFA REP. MATCH. -Mr Whibley (l-'oxton) stated that Mnnawntu had fixed the date for the combined Taranaki match. He wanted to know what authority they had for doing so? The secretary said tluit Manjnvatn bad played Taranaki before. Mr WhibU-y stated that he was opposed to Manawatu having all the say. They would do so if they !:ad the chance. The secretary: They will get picked up pretty quick on that, aiidlivelv too! ' Mr Whibley: If they get control thev will chew us up pretty quick! The chairman: They have been going the way to do it. They tried \t over the Wai.rarapa. but we nut i:ur foot down.

The sivrenrv: Wo had put down our fool on that. Wo can play Wairarapa oniselvos. a.s well as Wnnjra.iwii and Hawko'.s [Jay. Wp hinvo told Manawatu we will ha vo nothing t° do with them if wo cani:ot play nil tlieso smaller teams. Mr W1 lib ley: Manawatu arc not Koing to rid© roiiftli shod over met The chairman: And you ran take tho same I'rom me.,. Mr Procter was appointed. manager of the rep. team to visit Pwalmerston on the 29th. inst., and tho appointment of referee was left to the Manawatu Union. LEV IX AND l-'OXTOX. it was pi'oposed hy Mr Whiltley, seconded by .Mr Kaurati that .a statement facts ho transmitted to the .X. I?. [T. with regard to tlx? Koxton appeal in the case of the Lcvin-Foxtou matcli.