GENERAL BRAWL
AT FOOTGALL MATCH. SEQUEL IN S.M. COURT. (By Telegraph-Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. -Football is a decent clean game and you should keep it. that way,” said the Magistrate, Mr E. C. Levvey today when as a sequel to a brawl at a league football match last, month one player and on.e spectator were each charged with fighting Defendants were Raymond Gatehouse, footballer, and Allan Boniface, spectator. Sub-Inspector Packer said that there was trouble and Gatehouse was ordered off early in the second spell. Gatehouse took exception to a remark allegedly made by Boniface’s sister as he was leaving the field and Boniface took his sister's part, but Miss Bates who was with the Boniface's threw her arms round Boniface in an effort to stop the fight and was knocked to the ground by a blow. The fight went on and before long a general brawl ensued resulting in the game being called off. Each defendant was fined 20s.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1939, Page 8
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161GENERAL BRAWL Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1939, Page 8
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