MARTYRS TO SPORT.
An incident reported in English papers a few weeks ago throws a white light on a certain phaso of national character. The Lord Mayor of Bristol found it necessary to issue a letter intimating that a number of men in the city drawn from, the ranks of unemployed and put on relief works should be discharged because they had been ‘ ’agitating for facilities to see football matches.” There had been great distress at Bristol and a serious effort had been made to cope with it. A fund of £6OOO had been raised by voluntary contributions and the Corporation* Distress Committee organised two shifts of relief work, each extending over four days of the week. Apparently the two off-days did not happen always to coincide with important football fixtures, and rather than miss these festive® l sights some of the men were in the habit of “taking French leave.” It is astonishing to find that among men reduced ,to destitution there should even be a minority who would sacrifice the last chance of earning wages rather than 'abondon the inalienable riguit t>f seeing a football match.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2468, 5 April 1909, Page 2
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188MARTYRS TO SPORT. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2468, 5 April 1909, Page 2
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