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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 July 1938, Page 4

Senior Rugby players at various times in the last few years have protested aj ;ainst the expedient of spreading sano', on football grounds to overcome the effect of wet weather and frost, an.d after another complaint had been imide at the meeting of the management; committee of the Canterbury Rugby Union it wris stated that the practic a would be discontinued. Mr K. I. Armour, a member of the committee and captain of the Linwood senior team, .said that last year he had suffered injuries to the ears when scrummaging through the abrasive effect of sand clinging to the players’ dress. This year, hoi vever, he and other players had had t heir eyes, “filled with it,” and in his ca: ;e it ha.d been necessary to have it r- smoved by ambulance men using cotte >n wool on a match-stick. As the sand d ried on the players’ jerseys and shorts it came out in the scrums and the p layers inhaled it through mouth and nose, Mr Armour said he felt that he '-had.’been spitting out sand ever since the. .-match.