SCORING WELL.
How often from the tented slopes In summer were acclaimed The stalwart drive that looped the The wrist stroke neatly aimed! Mow long the howlers strained each nerve Before a w icket •fell, While waiting wire veveived the news, “Australia scoring well.
How- oft. on winter days gone by, Were heard the crowds acclaim The swift, low pass, the brilliant try, The hard, hut sporting game, The while across the world there leapt Brief messages to toll Another triumph lor All Blacks; New Zealand scoring well.
And now, when greater games are played, And greater deeds are done, Where sing the bullet and the blade Beneath the Eastern sun More welcome to the Homeland flash The messages that tell, Australians" and New Zealanders, Continue scoring well. —London “Daily Chronicle.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4011, 18 August 1915, Page 2
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131SCORING WELL. Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4011, 18 August 1915, Page 2
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