FOOTBALL

Hokitika Guardian, 5 June 1922, Page 4

FOOTBALL

AV ESTLA ND SUB -UNION. Thetis was a great crowd on Cass Square on Saturday morning and afternoon to witness tbo 7 aside tournament arranged by the "Westland SubUnion. Great interest was ' shown throughout by the spectators, and there was much cheering and barrack-ing-in evidence during the progress ol the play. There was some excellent football' shown, but unfortunately the final of the senior game was played in the dark and this game was robbed ol its interest by the inability of the players to see the ball. There was some delay and even then when the full time had boon played there was a draw —J each, and the game was extended till a Hari Hari player managed to seoro and thus enabled his team to win the tournament. The day was fine and the ground in capital order. . . In the junior competition the Araliura team played very consistently throughout and deserved their win.

The referees for the tournament were —Messrs Afeharry, Sumner, D. and B. Dowell, McMannwny, A. Wilson, Giloolv and Cutbush.

The various officials are to he complimented on the success ol the tournament. The particulars of the various rounds of the play arc as follows: —• JUNIOR 7 ASTDE. Ist ROUND. Rimu :l, bent Excelsior B 0. Arahura A. 3, heat Excelsior A, 0. Kiwi B, 19, beat Arahura B, 0. Kiwi A won by default from AraImra (’. Kokatabi a bye. 2nd ROUND. Kiwis A, 8, heat Kokatabi 0.

Arahura, A, 13, heat Rimu, 0. Kiwi A, 9, beat Kiwi B, 5.

FINAL. Arahura A, 3 beat Kiwi A, 0

SENIOR 7 ASIDE. Ist ROUND. Excelsior A, 14, heat Excelsior B, 0 Kiwi B, 20, heat Kumara B, 5. Kokatabi 3. heat Kumara A. 0. Hari Hari 15, heat Kiwi A, 0. "United B, 8. beat United A, 0. 2nd ROUND. Kokatabi 8, beat Kiwi, B, 3. Hari Hari 7, beat United B, 3. Excelsior a bye. 3rd ROUND. Excelsior A. 11, beat Kokatabi 0. FINAL.

Hari Hari 0. beat Excelsior 3.

This game was a draw when time 1 was called and play was continued in the darkness until Hari Ilari scored the winning try. There was tremendous excitement over this game, and the cheering lasted a long time after the finish of the match. PL A TICK 1C KING. The placekieking and drop kicking competition was won b.v IL illiams with 1 drop kick and two place kicks.

Greyniouih in the 7-aside tournament oil Saturday, United U>, heat Star A 8 in the final of the seniors, and United A lti, heat Marists 5, in the final for the juniors.

WELLINGTON. May 31. A Dominion Conference of Rugby Referees is Doing held here. The President was asked: “Can the hall lie taken out of the hack row ol the serum i” The President said that picking from the .serum, namely, taking the ball out with tlie band, was illegal, but it was quite in order for Hie half-back to use his foot in taking the lmll from the scrum.

Mr .M of lit (Wellington) moved in connection with the knock-nil rule, that was deleted from the N.Z.R.U. handhook in 1921, that it he restored, namely: If a player knock on the hall, but recovers it before it reaches the ground, that the game he allowed to proceed. The President said tiiis interpretation had been taken out ol the hook last year on account of the visit, oi the South Africans. The motion was carried.

The executive gave several rulings concerning the amended kicking into touch rule. Approval was given lo the interpretation that, in the event of a player taking a mark three yards outside iiis own twenty-live yards line, and retiring hack in liis own twentylive to take the kick, and the ball dropping out on the lull, a line-out should lie ordered opposite to where the mark was taken. The decision was discussed, that in tiie event of a player receiving the hall outside his twenty-five, and dolibera l - - lv running hack behind it to kick direct into touch, a line-out should lie where the player received tiie ball. This decision was not confirmed. The conference confirmed the executive rulings in the following eases:

If a player, in midfield, makes a kick and the ball flitches into touch in bis own twenty-live, the advantage rule is to apply aml a line-out is to In- ordered where tho ball goes into touch.

The new rule is not to apply to the kick-off.

If a plaver kicks the hall direct into touch, and in its flight it touches an opponent, a line-out is to lie called where the ball goes into touch. In tiie interpretation of the new rule, (lie touch judge only should indicate where the hall goes into touch, and the referee is to decide whether the ball landed in the field or ill touch. 11 in doubt, the referee is to consult the touch judge.