FOOTBALL.
THE NEW ZEALAND CRAZE
Adverting to football matters in South. Africa and New Zealand, a ‘Morning Post’ scribe remarks“ln South Africa Euglby is,taken in the liours of leisure as a recreation, .and has not degenerated into fanaticism. The late. Admiral Tryon told a story at one of the Australian cricket dinners—it was to Percy MT)onnel-l’s team—in which he related bow the game of cricket in some, of the Pacific islands became such a disease that the chiefs had to adopt, tor its suppression an indigenous method that is a cure for all diseases. -If things boas they are .painted -by those who have, recently returned home from New Zealand; at least an Act of Parliament will ho necessary to revive the. common-sense attitude in regard to games.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2417, 4 February 1909, Page 2
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128FOOTBALL. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2417, 4 February 1909, Page 2
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