Rugby League Split With Dominions

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 127, 19 August 1927, Page 10

Rugby League Split With Dominions

“DAYLIGHT ROBBERY’ 7 ENGLISH CRITIC’S VIEW Under the heading' of “Rugby League Split Widening,” the “Athletic News’ ” football critic caustically condemns the action of the English Rugby League in removing the two years’ ban on overseas players. He says: “The danger of a complete severance of friendly relations between the Rugby League and the New Zealand League is plainly apparent from the tone of a Wellington cablegram which states that the removal of the two years’ residential qualification for colonial players joining English League clubs has caused much feeling, and that the New Zealand League has decided to endorse the Australian protest against the decision. NEW ZEALAND RESENTMENT “New Zealand naturally resents the legislation by the Rugby League of a sort of daylight robbery in its preserves, and apparently the Dominion Council has realised that nothing is to be gained by further prolonging the pretence of friendly co-operation with England. “The whole business of the ban reflects little dignity on the Rugby League. Decisions which affect the well-being of overseas auxiliaries who after all, should be better qualified to express an opinion upon domestic management, should not be made at a one-sided meeting which allows one section 30 votes, Australia one vote, and New Zealand no vote at all. “If the Rugby League is sincere in its desire to be regarded as an international code, legislation should surely not be by parochial methods.” How Uncle Sam’s Footballers Train Thus an American scribe’s breezy account of how the padded ball players of the States keep fit during the term vacation: You have to give the boys credit’ That is, the boys of the Rutgers football squad. Loaf all summer? Not on your tintypes! They are actually working at he-men’s jobs. Take “.Wild Bill’ Dalton, half-back, for example. He is a life-guard at Deal Beach. Joe Irwin, full-back, has got a job on the Shrewsbury River as a deck-hand on the steamer Red Bank. Karl Gordinier. also backfield, is playing ping pong with heavy pieces of luggage handled by the American Express Company at Newark, N.J.,' and Jack Carney, who plays end, is toying with mechanical work at a garage in Mount Vernon, N.Y". Jim Sheddon, who played as end, has gone to take a summer session, but he had the stamina to put in a few weeks at a steel mill. “Just to make a little extra change,” and he is going back to the mills in August and stay there until Labour Day. Dave Moscowitz, looked on as star tackle, had to do a little oratorical work in the National contest at Los Angeles during the week of July 9, but he planned to pitch in at an antique shop in Summerville, N.J., as soon as he got back East. Jimmy Reinhardt, substitute back, takes to the rural and works on his father’s farm at Port Jervis, N.Y. Another husky of the outfit, Jim Kearny, a frosh, elects to play handball with lumber in a lumberyard at Newark, N.J. Bill McDowell, half-back, has taken the dignified job of counsellor at a boys’ camp. The players all looked forward to a strenuous period this coming football season, and well they may.