CORRESPONDENCE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 844, 26 May 1910, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

[to the editor.]

Sir. —Being a constant reader of your valuable paper I would just like to say a few more words through your columns in regard to those undesirables who make a practice of attending every football match and make themselves so noticeable by their ignorance in not being able to control themselves, It would be better for the sake of rugby if they were kept away from the football field. lam sure tnat where Rugby is played at all, governed by any sort of a ruling body, they would not allow one-half of the hoodlums to go inside the gate, let alone to walk about on the field of play during the progress of a match. If a man is knocked down tuese hoodlums can be heard say, “kick him, down,” “deal it to them,” and when the referee, Dr Adams, who appeared to me to be doing honour and justice to both sides, didn’t quite please, the hoodlums then started to grunt, and one would think that there was a mob of pigs on the ground crying with hunger. The sooner the officials feed these hoodlums with a plate ol punishment, the quicker our sub-union will become popular with outside teams and the public generally. Why does not the management committee post themselves about the field and make an example of some of them. lam sure it it were some of the players who carried on in the manner that was done on Saturday last they would be proposing to disqualify them for life, and yet these hoodlums are allowed to go on the ground and excite the players and hoot the referee. Why the officials keep silent in the matter is a mystery to me and anyone else who goes to witness our Rugby games. Any other controlling body in the Dominion would disqualify a ground for this sort of carrying on, but it appears to me here they do just as they like and that is why the Rugby competition is slowly dying out. I would also recommend the subunion to purchase a few more marking pegs as the rushes, having been cut down, there is nothing now left to tie the flags to marking the 25’s and half-way. Hoping that I have not intruded too much on your valuable space. I am, etc.,

“ Disgusted.”