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Tyson Frizell has questioned the lack of common sense in the NRL judiciary process after he was outed for one-match for making contact with a referee at the NRL judiciary on Tuesday.Frizell unsuccessfully fought a grade one contrary conduct for touching referee Chris James in St George Illawarras loss to Canterbury on Friday.The judiciary panel of Chris McKenna, Mal Cochrane and Sean Garlick took just five minutes to reach their verdict after a hearing that lasted half an hour.It was one NSW backrower Frizell had trouble understanding.Common sense needs to come in there, he said.There was no malice at all, or going in to make aggressive contact towards the referee. It was purely accidental.Im pretty disappointed with whats happened.Something we tried to put forward was that it was an accident.I guess they see it as black and white, and say contact with the referee will give you a week on the sideline.The decision came after the NRL moved to clarify the rule last week, saying that careless contact would be penalised.Frizells suspension was met with derision by a number of NRL figures.RIP Rugby League tweeted Queensland and Manly prop Nate Myles.Penrith supremo Phil Gould wrote on Twitter: Honestly, youve had your fun. Is there any chance we can have our game back now please? Before its too late!!Gold Coast rake Nathan Peats wrote: Poor Tyson Frizell.Frizells defence counsel Nick Ghabar argued that his client did not initiate contact with James.The referee made the initial contact with player Frizell, he said.The reflex nature of (Frizells) action was accidental.Neither person appreciated how close they were in proximity to each other.It was a slight tap or a brush against the referee. He gently or politely touched him after he was confronted with the referee blocking his path.Judiciary prosecutor Peter McGrath argued the contact Frizell made in the fourth minute of the round 21 encounter won by the Bulldogs was neither incidental or accidental.He had that special duty all players do to avoid contact with the referee, and he had plenty of time to do that, McGrath said.The contact was avoidable and unnecessary.Frizell will return for the Dragons round 23 match against arch-rivals Cronulla at Kogarah Oval on Saturday week.Custom Nike New York Yankees Jerseys . A big centre with all the tools to be an elite player, Johansen paced the Blue Jackets with a standout game Saturday night. He had a goal and two assists for a career-high three points as Columbus beat the New York Islanders 5-2 to snap a five-game losing streak. 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Thousands of fans at Mosaic Stadium will be cozying up to each other in an effort to stay warm in chilly temperatures and block the Prairie wind that locals say can knock your socks off.This is an edited version of a speech given by Ashley Mallett during a celebration dinner to honour the memory of Victor Trumper, on June 26 in Sydney. Trumper died on June 28, 1915, and the New South Wales branch of the Australia Cricket Society implemented three days of celebration - a dinner, a seminar at the SCG, and a guided tour of Trumpers various residences in and about Sydney town - to mark the anniversary.As kids growing up in Chatswood in the 1950s, my older brother Nick and I would play backyard Test matches, as most boys did in those days. However, there was a catch. Nick wasnt interested in tossing for innings. We both wanted to be Australia, but again my brother held sway. Nick always batted and inevitably he opened Australias innings with the legendary Arthur Morris and Les Favell.No Victor Trumper?Sacrilege.I decided to go to bat on Vics behalf.Cant Trumper open my England with Jack Hobbs? I asked in hope.Nick eyed me quizzically. Victor Trumper? Dont know him. Hes yours.****Since reading Johnny Moyes A Century of Cricketers, Trumper has been a hero to me; that immortal image of Vic leaping out to drive is ever etched on my memory.When Trumper strode onto the green sward of his beloved SCG, the crowd rose in a standing ovation. Even the blades of grass seemed to bow respectfully in the wake of the great man, and in a gentle breeze the grass became a rolling sea of green: natures own version of a Mexican Wave.By all accounts he was born on November 2, 1877, although I could find no evidence of his birth date, either in Sydney or in Auckland, where his father once lived. Sydney has long claimed this handsome, self-effacing champion, the greatest batsman of crickets Golden Age - 1894-1914.Vics father, Charles Trumper, was born in New Zealand. His mother, Louise (Louey) Trumper (née Coglan), a jolly, robust woman, met Charles when he migrated from New Zealand to settle in Sydney. The Trumpers had nine children, but sadly only six survived into adulthood. After Victor came Alice (known as Nancy), Una, Jackie (a little girl who was born blind and died aged three), Sidney, May Louise and Charles.Charles Trumper (senior) was a thin man of medium height with short cropped hair, beard and moustache. This gentle soul suffered from asthma and in the summer months often slept under a mosquito net in a tent in the family backyard.A boot clicker by trade, Charles worked for Wards Slipper Factory until he had saved enough money to open his own business in Paddington, manufacturing Cats Head velvet slippers. In 1907 the Trumpers moved from Paddington to Help Street, Chatswood.Vic grew up in and about Paddington. He attended Crown Street Superior Public School in Darlinghurst, where his batting prowess was soon evident. Those who saw him at the crease marvelled at his poise and power. Long before Vic began playing for Paddington, people would ask, Have you seen Trumper from Crown Street bat?As with most Australian boys, Victor loved playing cricket in the family backyard with his father (and the ever-present, albeit unwitting, hindrance of their St Bernard dog and pet magpie). Charles Trumper also introduced Vic to cricket at Moore Park, the vast tract of playing fields a Steven Smith cover drive from the SCG.There are so many stories about Trumper, as there have been about Bradman, both true and apocryphal, that it is difficult to know which is which.We do know Vic was generous to a fault. That he loved his mothers cooking and his favourite food was toad-in-the-hole. He was said never to have smoked or touched alcohol, nor did he bet. He learnt to play euchre and he became an accomplished pianist. At the Paddington club he became friendly with James Kelly, the Test wicketkeeper.His friendship with Kelly took him to his greatest partnership, for Kelly was courting the sister of the girl who was destined to become Mrs Victor Trumper. Kelly introduced Victor to Sarah Anne Briggs at Melbourne Station on March 9, 1899. They did not meet again until December 22, 1899, when New South Wales played Victoria in Melbourne, but Victor was hooked. He made many a journey to Melbourne right up until the day he married the girl he always called Annie at St Patricks Cathedral in the city, on June 7, 1904. Victor was by then the worlds best and most charismatic batsman. He and Annie returned to Sydney, where they lived with Victors parents, first in Paddington then in Chatswood. In 1907, Victor contracted scarlet fever - the beginning of years of ill-health which beleaguered the champion.Victor began his working life in the New South Wales Government Stores Department. Later he worked in the Probate Office, under the wing of ex-Test cricketer, Tom Garrett, who played in Vics first State game, for New South Wales versus South Australia.In 1899, Vic went into partnership with Hanson Sammy Carter, the New South Wales and Australia wicketkeeper who doubled as an undertaker, in a sports business. The Trumper and Carter Sports Depot was situated at 108 Market Street, Sydney. By all accounts Victor was a hopeless businessman. He once grabbed a bat off the 7/6d rack after a hectic Saturday morning trading, hit a glorious century for Paddington that afternoon, and on the Monday returned the bat to the rack with the note: Used bat. Special 3/9d.Former New South Wales governor Sir William McKell, who once sent me a fading photograph of Trumper, told me that as a boy he once went into Trumpers shop with a few mates. He asked Vic for a real ball, a six-stitcher, but Vic talked the boys out of buying it, saying it would quickly scuff on the asphalt pitches. He advised them to buy the cheaper composition ball. Sir William said over the phone: Eventually Victor gave us a few balls, a bat, and a pair of pads, a set of stumps and a pair of batting gloves… all this for the cost of the compo ball. No wonder the kids loved him.Soon Victor lost Carter as a business partner. Sammy - who often used to turn up to Paddington club cricket matches in a horse-drawn hearse - returned to his fathers undertaking business. Maybe he was sick of Vic giving away all the profits. But he remained firm friends with Vic.Victor then teamed with James Giltinan in a cricket depot and mercery business. The pair also figured prominently in the formation of the New South Wales Rugby League. Vic played a few seasons for South Sydney as full back. He twice broke his collarbone, and every time he kicked the ball he had to remove his boot and sock on his right foot and put his double-jointed toe back into place.Vic was concerned about how rugby union had no practical insurance scheme in place for injured players. When Sydney player Alec Burdon broke his arm in 1907, he spent weeks off work during his rehabilitation, but he received not a penny in compensation from the New South Wales Rugby Union administration.At that time the Australian Board of Control for International Cricket (formed in 1905) too was riding roughshod over the players. No longer were the players in charge of profits. Trumper found himself fighting a battle on two fronts - cricket and rugby union - and he was in the frame of mind to fight back on behalf of all sportsmen. His fight to help form a breakaway rugby league succeeded, but his clash with cricket officials five years later didnt go quite so well.Trumper was one of six men (the others were Warwick Armstrong, Vernon Ransford, Hanson Carter, Tibby Cotter and Clem Hill) who refused to tour England in 1912 because the board refused their request to have Frank Laver manage the tour. Before the board was formed in 1905, the players organised tours themselves. They arranged the itinerary, they picked the team and they shared the profits. The board came along and gradually began to loosen the players hold on purse strings, until eventually the players came to be treated like schoolboys.Had he lived in another era, Trumper almost certainly would have joined the Chappells and Dennis Lillee in playing World Series cricket. Had he not died so young, he might well have been a successful shop steward before going to bat for the nation as a politician.****Trumper had a bizarre superstition. While bowlers held no fear for him, the sight of a clergyman wearing a dog collar worried the life out of him. Once, the great SF Barnes got Trumper early in his innings and Vic said: I knew I would not score with all those clergymen in the crowd… Clem Hill always maintained that Trumper was only ever really troubled by Barnes, who took a record 49 wickets in a five-Test match series against South Africa in 1913-14. In the latter stages of his career, Trumper was greatly worried by Barnes. Time and again Trumper left the dressing room saying that he would have a go to try and knock Barnes off. He was determined at last to do or die. But instead there was our champion driven further and further back on to his wicket, and made to play a defensive game. I have seen Barnes bowl to Trumper without an outfield, Hill said.Despite the presence of more than a few men of the cloth among the spectators at Lords in June 1899, Trumper and Clem Hill flayed an England attack that included such luminaries as Wilfred Rhodes, Gilbert Jessop and FS Jackson. Hill made 135 and Trumper remained unconquered on 135, his first century, in his second Test match, as Australia amassed a match-winning total of 421.Watching Trumpers artistry from the non-strikers end, Hill was fascinated as Trumper used his feet time and again to dance down the track and hoist Rhodes left-arm spin effortlessly over mid-off.Hill would tell emerging first-class players that all the bowling came alike to [Vic], and he was just as likely to get a couple of fours off the first two balls of the day as he was off the last two. But he could not relax at the batting crease if he saw a clergyman, either on the way to the wicket or in the crowd while he was out in the middle.Trumpers first Test match was at Nottingham a few weeks before the Lords Test of 1899. It was also WG Graces last Test match appearance. But WG didnt miss Trumpers brilliant 135 at Lords. Soon after Vics triumphant return to the Australian dressing room there was an urgent knock on the door. An attendant rushed back to Vic and blurted, Theres a huge, bearded chap at the door demanding to see you, sir. When Vic arrived at the door, there stood the incomparable Grace.He was holding a bat, the very piece of willow he used in his last Test match at Nottingham a few days before. WG handed Vic his bat bearing the inscription: From the past champion to the future champion. As far as I am aware that bat remains in the Trumper family.The genius of Trumpers batting was never better illustrated than by his century before lunch at Old Trafford in 1902. The wicket was rain-affected and the England captain, Archie MacLaren, was delighted when Australian captain Joe Darling won the toss and decided to bat.MacLaren rushed back to the England dressing room, Its all right boys, theyre batting. The suns coming out; we only have to keep them quiet to lunch. In the crowd was 12-year-old Neville Cardus, later universally acclaimed the greatest of cricket writers.As the boy Cardus watched Victor Trumper and Reg Duff walk confidently to the wicket, he said quietly to himself, Please god, let Victor Trumper score a century today for Australia against England - out of a total of 137 all out!Trumper flayed the England attack, which included t