EXCITED CROWD
TENSION AT FOOTBALL. MATCH. / , 6 i & (Per Press Association — Copyright.)
' WELLINGTON', August 1 The feeling aroused during a Rugby football match, on Saturday between Marist and Miramar was carried to till us ua] lengths. At the conclusion of the ggmo: heated exclamations were heard .among the crowd and players. An :excit42. section of the crowd followed th#;pMarist players to the sheds and it .vjastfsome little, time before they dispersed’, Towards’ tlie close of the game, which was pjayed'- . 'pti. . the Polo ground at Miramarj Hull, a Miramar /anvartl, , wa?’orcWed off by the referee, Mr RPatou..' \Vhen the final wldstie sound il Hujl returned to the field and mixed with the 'players. An altercation then developed, between two players, who woro sooti"’ 4 .separated by members of the crowd. The supporters of both s ’ l
teams surged round, and there Ms a good deal of . wild talk. A small section of the crowd waited outside the Marist dressing sheds, hut the players were allowed to leave quietly. For a while the referee was the centre of attraction. Some of the crowd appeared to ho rankled over the ordering off of the Miramar player, giving exp res. fiion to their feelings
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19320802.2.55
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 2 August 1932, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
201EXCITED CROWD Hokitika Guardian, 2 August 1932, Page 6
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