FOOTBALL NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5013, 30 April 1895, Page 3

FOOTBALL NOTES.

[Bv Damocles.]

The following will represent tho Oriental Football Club on Saturday next against all comers on the Lincoln Road Ground :-W. Johnston (Capt),li, Welch, F.Jago, F.Hunt, 0, King, T, Jenkins, F. King, C. Morris, A. Nicol, Marsh, Corbetl, Allen, Pickering, Mcintosh and Owen.

The following team will represent Oriental IsHifteenagainstthe White Stars on Thursday next on the Park Oval at 3 o'clock :-E. Harland, R, Scott, A, Bennett, F, Fellingham, H. Marsh, C. Webb, B. Bennett (capt.) A. Owen, C. Wellington, H, Bagge, H, Walker, J. Wickens, F. Redmond, W, Welch, R, Fiulayson, Emerg.-Backs, J. Johnston) J, Henry ; forwards—R, Leach.

DECISIONS OF THE COURT OF APPEAL. The following interesting and instructive decisions were made lately by the Committee of the English Union.as a result of appeals from different Clubs:— If a ball is heeled back out of a scrummage over the goal line, it is not to be taken as" kicked, passed, or carried," If a player crosses the line for a try and touches the ball down, but immediately picks tho ball up and tries to get behind the goal posts, and in so doing is tnckled and the ball hold, a try is obtained at tho spot where the players touched the ball down, and must be scored, and the ball must be taken out for a kick at goal from that spot, The kicker of any placer may touch and arrange the ball in all cases in which a kick at goal is taken after a try has been obtained; a place kick is taken from a free kick which has been awarded by way of penalty; and a free kick is taken after a fair catch has been made, The penalty for a throw forward when a ball is over a goal line, is a 1 scrummage five yards out on breach by defending side, and a touch down on breach by attacking side. A referee having given a decision after blowing his whistle, cannot under any circumstances alter it. The actof a player taking the ball

c off the ground with his feet, in t scrummage, does not constituf 3 " picking" up in a scrummage withi 1 theincanirfgof Law 6, 5 A player crossing his oppononti j goal-lino with the ball, and tho 3 touching the referee, should b ) allowed a try at the spot where h - touched him. ) A player running out from hi own " iii-goal " touches tho refere . the ball is dead at the spot, where h , touches him and a " kick out" mus i betaken, except in the case of i player having run back behind hi 5 own goal line, the ball niustthen b j scrummaged at the spot whence i \ was carried back. When a kick from a fair catch ii being taken, if the defending sich ; appeal because the wrong man ii i about to place the ball, tho right mai , shall be allowed to do so. A player may mako a mark ant claim a fair catch in his own "in , goal," and the opposing side maj line up to such mark. A player being " off-side" drop! on the ball in his opponents' " in< goal." Law 1!) governs this; ; touch down should bo awarded. Duties of touch judges: It ii advisable that touch judges shouli note the play along the lines froir the corner Hags to the dead ba! . lines, so as to assist the rcfeieoi applied to by him.