RUGBY GOSSIP.

Otago Witness, Issue 2894, 25 August 1909, Page 60

RUGBY GOSSIP.

The takings at the Taranaki-Welhngton match .amounted to £'301. j Auckland Rugby Union is winding up the season with a picnic and sports meeting. | Mr E. Mackenzie, of Master lon. will act a3 referee iv the match North Island v. South Island. . I Some heavy weights "in the Taranaki forwards :— Crow ley 13st 7lb, O'SuKitan 14st, Tamu 15st 3lb, Smith 14st 7lb, Young 15st, Cain 13st 7ib, and Osborne 13st 7!b. ' The English Rugby Uniion declines to sanction New Zealand's proposed alterations in the laws of the game till the matter has been considered by the Inter national Board. Ths suggesticn has been variously put forward in Sydney that shouid the Welsh team make it 3 appearance there nex* season the Australian team's visit -to New Zealand should be deferred until 1911. F. Glasgow was unable to accompany the Southland, team to Dunedin to meet Otago. and the Selection CorruniiCee thereupon decided to replace him by filling the i hooker's position with Gardiner. J Our old friend E. E-. Booth dropped out | of the Metropolitan team sgam°t Pcnscnbr, I owing to an injury to the thigh. As a resivk of playing on the hard grou.ids of IvcTth Queensland Booth hz* a large , water blister on his \&2 above the knee, and ho wisely witLdrew item ihe ter.xn. ; Ths following resolution re' oe'.tug neutral judges was adop'ied at a recent meciing of iha \Yelsh Rugby Unior. : — "Tliat in any • z&aieh in which neutral touch judges are j apj->cinted the ipfeiee shall have power to consult, it he think fit, a touch-judge upon any poict upon whi^h Ls is m <l^ul>i." , J'lie annual meotinc cf -l:c Welsh Pi.TJ. , v,i'.s he-ltl at Cardiff on July 1 Mi Horace I 1/yi'o, the president, \»as in ILe chair Mr • VTallor Rosci pecrctrry, repcrfed ibat the I union's finance we.s in a kio c < 6?t."factory j ton-clition. the balanca m hau'i !-^'i:g .<.'3aSj ■ 17s 4d, as awfinsl £°.770 lCs> Cci la-t reason, i From a Vrelliij^lo. v i exchrr.-e Alh'jrubra ! have won tl:a Dm cdi:i C'ha.nipio:: ?hip with j a i6tor-d cf 13 na'ches played end 35 won. j Aprop-is a leitei from Dunedin ro-.c-ved hare , states, inicr a':t. . — ''loii « oii'd h?rdly credit • it, but Alc<ii".tra have v. ;n the flag with a i ftea:a that would i.A h?.vz run inia fifth ' pla-:e £ix cr riven yc^rs a^o. What is the ' gcoil eld. kb.2 tcru.ng to?"' | '■To'jehlh'.c's" apprecjitioii of Camrroii and Mynctt in tbe receut V.'ellington-Taraaaki ' isiatcii: Caax-rcn v. is tbe playtr taat w?s j in the limelight all the tiire. Tar-nok/s J left wing thres-quaitar. ?.r.d a X:w Zci.'aud representative v* Tvei l , was full of pHy. ' dodging, running, side-stepping, and kick- , ing in the Jsest approved style j Mynott, of fond memory of mai:y Taranaki gsrnes, and one of the All Blacks, vrs3 nippy wnd fast, and, contrary to previous experiences of him, tKrew the ba.ll about in a manner that was piea^ing to watch. As , a matter of fact, on one occasion in this match he was rather unsslfish. losing wLat looksd like a c«r£aar. try if he had goneon himself instead of pss'iiJig out lo Carr-eron. , Jhe Appeal Comuiiti^e of fJxe 2Jew Zt-z-

' land Union wrote to the New Zealand Union in regard to the appeal of the City Club (Poverty Bay) against a decision of the referee in tbe match Gisborne v. City. The facts were that the ball was brought out after a try and put on the ground, but the placer kept one hand on the ball -whilst the kicker had his shot at goal. The referee disallowed the goal, because of the fact that -the placer, having his band on the ball whilst it was kicked, made it an illegal "place." Ths Appeal Committee decided that the goal should be allowed. Mr J, P-eake, late of Dunedin, but now of Christchurch, w&9 the referee in the j Taraaaki-Wellington match, and mad© j a very favourable impression on the spectators, mainly from the , fact that he was' quick and impartial in his ' decisions. There were many things that • escaped his notice, remarks "Toudilin*," but ii is pleasing these times to find a. xeiere* that can miss a few. of the smaller hts/p1 penings, for too much -whistle is" , sometimes worse than too much of anything ! elsa you like to mention. J£r Peake's conception of a mark, and also of an intentional c*rry-back over the goal-line do not agxea with my ideas of these elements of the Rugby gam«, but he is not the only referee w*bo is in the same box. W« could do with Mr Feake aa a referee in a. representative matoh, however, agaan in W«illingi ton, and the renewal of an old fri^ndehip with him through his appearance gave me much pleasure.