SOCCER RUMPUS at ONEHUNGA

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 185, 26 October 1927, Page 1

SOCCER RUMPUS at ONEHUNGA

WILD AFTERNOON ENDS FALCON CUP CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL

minutes before the close .f? game, I ordered off Whoof Of Onehunga, for disputing my leuion and for using threatening . C l.>aae I also report two memlanguage. oriehunga Club cornel for inciting the crowd to a hostile demonstration against me.’ This report of misdoings of the Faln CUP Soccer final at Onehunga on V was read at last nights meeting of the Auckland Football AssoCla ße°feree Tuttle said that he had nothing further to report. Whowell, who, by the way. is the rnntain Of the Onehunga team, then “S his side of the story regarding Jh'e d disputing of the referee's decision, Ini as for the threatening language he 1,1 that he did not know such a great Sal about It. and would certainly like to know more. "SLANGWIDGE”

Some of the members present wanted to know exactly what was said, and irith this Mr. Tuttle, who is a marine in the New Zealand Division of the Koval Navy, being a sailor, did not blush a great deal as he told them. Whowell: If Mr. Tuttle reckons I M id that. well. I feel I would like to ago him downstairs after. Mr. Wilkes: We can’t allow that sort of thing in this room, Mr. Chairman. 1 think that is a second offence. A little more was said, but not a great deal, and then the referee, Whowell and some other Onehunga officials who were present left the room while the committee got their heads together about it. A voice: Will Tuttle be safe outside there? It was really the end of the season that saved Whowell, as the committee was not altogether keen on carrying anything over to next season. He was cautioned and after taking the gruelling left the room nice and quietly. But finding punishment and dealing it out to Whowell was quite an easy piece of business, compared with that which was to come. “DIDN’T INCITE THE CROWD” Referee Tuttle said he thought, although he was not absolutely sure, that two men mentioned in his report as trying to incite the crowd were the Jackson brothers, Allan and Francis. However, Mr. Francis Jackson was not present at the meeting last night, and his brother Allan had to take all the bumps. Altogether there was close on a dozen witnesses, and consequently they had to be brought into the room one at a time. Allan Jackson denied having attempted to incite the crowd. Referee Tuttle said that there was A bit of bickering going on toward the end of the match, but it was not until the game was over that the big demonstration started. “They got round and attempted to molest me, but they were stopped by two other referees who were there,” said Tuttle. Mr. Menzies, to Jackson: You admit there was a demonstration? Jackson: Yes, I admit there was a demonstration, and a big one, but I never opened by mouth (he clapped his hands to drive the point home). I am a big church man, and in the presence of my God, I would not tell a lie here to-night. I was in the shed with an injured man at the time the demonstration started. The first witness was then called in. (Enter Mr. Beswick.)

Mr. Beswick: The ringleaders were the two Jacksons and another little chap whom I have never seen before. One of them sang out, “You are the rottenest d referee I have ever seen.” Then another one started to boo, and later they started to count the referee out. When the referee was safe in the dressing shed I locked the door in case they attacked the building. Mr. Jackson then asked Mr. Beswick how did he (Jackson) actually approach this affair.

Mr. Beswick: Oh, you didn’t do this (he lifted his fists in front of him like Tunney about to land a solar plexus), but you had a lot to say and then you started, “boo hoo, boo. boo, hoo.”

Mr. Jackson strongly objected to this.

Mr. Beswick: It’s all right; I saw you with my own eyes, Mr. Jackson. Mr. Wilkes said that the policewere there, and it was one of the moit disgraceful scenes he had •ver seen.

Mr. Check came into the room next and after saying how sorry he was about the whole thing, he got down to tin-tacks” and said that the demonstration did occur, but by whom in particui&r he could not say. Mr. Jackson, to Mr. Check: I have never spoken to you on the line, have ' rothe : no; it was your

, Mr. Jackson: My word, I wish my brother was hei'e to-night. , Mr. T. G. Harding said that he had neard several remarks. Then followed lot of booing and hissing. He did not of the noisy ones in particuJr* but he thought one went by the najne 0 f Jackson. ““ en Mr. Porteous seemed to protftM * om «thing really definite when he L. meeting that the whole trouble caused by Mr. Nicol and Mr. I w®c* a Jackson. toh OWell, w ho had now reappeared, something to say in this affair, with \ r at was in the dressing room ae%rs an Jackson, and when he was °v* hoots he stayed where he wn« „ * ' J ac kson went out and he waq I* 0t awa >’ long, and he (Whowell) to this Jackson had nothing r t 0 the demonstration. on« ex P lai Rcd to the meeting by **o °\r ° ° ne hunga officials that the iiliifft • r Jacksons were very much Aft n e r ** earin £ evidence, it was de-hunp-n f ° rwar <! a letter to the Oneduh <o V,j P° ir *ting out that the home tion nr ♦L e d responsible for the protecation referee, and that the associQeplored the unpleasant feeling