FOOTBALL.
RUGBY PLAYERS ALLOWANCES. SCOTTISH UNION'S ACTION. Received January 15, 8.25 a.m. LONDON, January 14. In connection with the action of the Scottish Ru?by Union in cancellannual fixture with England because the English Union sanctioned payments to tin "All Blacks" and "the Wallabies" of a guinea a week each, besid-'s expenses, Mr MacMahon. manager of "the Wallabies," states that allowances to players were unthought of in Australia till the visit of the Rev. Mullineaux's team. Mr MacMahon reminds the Scottish Union that Bedell-Sivwright's team, which toured Australasia, received allowances. "The Wallabies" were simply following the English Union's rule, and they were confident they were not infringing the laws of amateurism in any shape or form.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3093, 16 January 1909, Page 5
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115FOOTBALL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3093, 16 January 1909, Page 5
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