FOOTBALL

Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1922, Page 4

FOOTBALL

Tho Westland Sub-Union opens the season’s competitions on Saturday next. Theiv are seven entrants for senior honours, and six for junior honours, and the season promises to prove a very interesting one. A now club, from Hai i Dari, has entered both a senior and junior team for the 'competitions, and they will be warmly v Icemed. The Diggers’ Club, which won senior honours in season 1920, has this year merged into a new dull, tho United, while the J’irates (Rimu) have •dropped out of the senior competition.

Rughy football, New Zealand's national pastime, seems to develop every year into a. very much faster jamo than its originators ever dreamed of. The latest (Tange is a drastic one. The New Zealand Rugby Union at its meeting last week, after a good deal of vigorous discussion, carried a resolution empowering provincial unions to put into operation tliis season what is commonly known as the Auckland amendment, a rule that restricts kicking into touch. Summarised, the Auckland amendment provides that no player shall kick on the full into touch except when he is standing within bis own twenty-five. When lie is outside bis own twenty-live, be must endeavour to keep the ball in play. Free kicks, of course,' can be put anywhere.