FOOT BALL.
[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.'
FOOTBALL TROUBLE. WELLINGTON, This Day. The Wellington Rugby Union last night commenced an inquiry ordered by the New Zealand Rugby Union in reference to the alleged playing of amended rules in the Auckland versus Wellington matches on Sept. 7tli. Only four players appeared and after taking evidence it resolved to suspend the following pin vers till they appear,—Valentine, Christopherson, A. Thomas. Aitken. Morris. Arthur Parker, Albert Parker, E. Bernhardt, Marks and B. Thomas. The players not suspended I were Porter, Nicholls. Tilyard and Trov who'attended and Tailored who is away from Wellington. Nicholas, the Captain, stated he was not a party to ■ any arrangement. He had been ap, preached respecting a proposal that | there he no charging of free kicks and ' replied he would leave the matter to j the forwards. Troy said he was not aware of any agreement. Griffiths a i member of tlie Rugbv Union stated that l in his hearing the two captains agreed ito no charging of free kicks. Tilyard ! stated Mr. Griffiths told the Wellingj ton team prior to the game that the j Captains had agreed that free kicks I should not he charged.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19181016.2.12
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 16 October 1918, Page 1
Word count
Tapeke kupu
197FOOT BALL. Hokitika Guardian, 16 October 1918, Page 1
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in