FOOTBALL.

Otaki Mail, 7 June 1922, Page 3

FOOTBALL.

I —♦— j The Otaki juniors will hold a ‘gym I in Mr A. Smith's stables on Thursday I night. Members are requested to at tend. Gilbert’s saying that a policeman’: lot is not a happy one can surely b< extended to include the lot of a foot ball referee. Even if a footballer doe; not approve of a referee's decision, tc break his jaw, like was done at Shannon recently, is to express disapprobation rather too emphatically. The man, generally an old player, who' gives up his tirno to adjudicating in any gamo has a good deal to put up with. One Otaki referee used to say that if at the end of a game he found himself equally unpopular with both sides he was satisfied; he knew then that he had been impartial. The same philospher also said that he did not mind much what the players thought of him. 'When he was a player himself he always imagined that the two qualifications of the referees he met were absolute ignorance of the rules of the game, and an incurable bias in favor of the other .side. Therefore he knew the "players’ point of view. But football, like boxing, is supposed to be a sport calling for selfcontrol and the keeping of one’s tomper. 'The referee in question may or may not have been a good one, but at | least he was. entitled to have his jaw i left intact. In future we ask players, also spectators, to give referees support, be fair, be square, and bo gontle- I men. ! A match between the Otuki and Paxaparaumu school boys took place at Otaki yesterday, when the locals provv Bevan, a member of the Maori team, left for Napier to-day. He was accompanied by Messrs Jacob and Broughton (Levin). A “Standard” reporter was informed by Inspector Mapkinnon yesterday that the cases concerning the alleged assault on a referee during a football match at Shannon would not be heard in Palmerston North.

HOF-OWHENUA RUGBY UNION FIXTURES. I SECOND ROUND. SENIOR. June ltd— Ilui Mai v. Wanderers, at Levin. Foxton v. Weraroa, at Levin. Shannon v. oiU Buys, at Shannon. •June 17— Hut Mai v. (Jid Boys, at Otaki. Buxton v. shannon, a.t Buxton. Wanderers v. Werara, at Levin. June 2i:— Wanderers v. Oid Buys, at Levin. Ilui Mai v. Fox Lon, at Manakau. Shannon v. Woiaroa, at Shannon. July J:— Wanderers v. Foxton, at Foxton. Shannon v. Hui Mai, at Manakau. Old Buys v. Weraio- at Levin. July S:— Wanderers v. Shannon, at Levin. Weraroa v. Hui Mai, at Manakau. Foxton v. Old Boys, at Foxton. NORTHERN JUNIORS. June lU: Wanderers v. Tokornaru, at Weraroa Weraroa a hye. Hovers v. Foxton, at Foxton. June 17:— Wanderers a hye. Weraroa v. Foxton, at Foxton. Hovers v. Xokonraru, at Levin. June 24: — Wanderers v. Foxton, at Levin. Hovers v. Weraroa, at Weraroa. Tokomaru a bye. July H Wanderers v. Weraroa, at Levin. Tokornaru v. Foxton, at Tokornaru. . Hovers a hye. t July S:— Wanderers v. Hovers, at Levin. Tokornaru v. Weraroa, at Weraroa. Foxton a hye. SOUTHERN JUNIORS. June 10: Kuku v. Hui -Mai, at Manakau. Oid Boys v. Te Horo,' at Otaki. Paraparaumu v. otaki, at Otaki. June 17:— Kuku v. Xe Horo, at 'Xe Horo. Oid Buys V. Otaki, at Otaki. Paraparaumu v. Hui Mai, Manakau. June H: — Kuku v. Pai’aparaumu, at Kuku. Otaki v. Xe Horo, at Otaki. Hui Mai v. Old Boys, at Otaki. July 1: j Kuku v. Otaki, at Otaki. Hui Mai v. Xe Horo, at Xe Horo. Old Boys y. Paraparaumu, at otaki. July k Kuku v. Old Boys, at Kuku. Hui Mai v. Otaki, at Otaki. Paraparaumu v. x r e Horo, at Para. NORTHERN THIRD GRADE. June 10: Hovers v. Weraroa, at Weraroa. FOalou v. Foxton. June 17:— ■ Hovers v. Shannon, at Shannon. JH Weraroa v. Foxton, at Levin. SOUTHERN THIRD GRADE. H June 10— Old Boys v. Tfl Horo, at Te Horo.Hl Boys* Farm v. Hui Mai, at Manakau June 17:— Old Boys v. Boys’ Farm, at Otaki. | Hui Mai v. Te Horo, at Te Horo. J FOURTH GRADE. , June 10: — i High School v. Weraroa, at Levin. J Foxton v. Training- Farm, Foxton. j June 17: — ] Weraroa v. Foxton, at Weraroa. | High School v. Training Farm, at Farm. i