OUT AND ABOUT

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 31, 3 July 1939, Page 5

OUT AND ABOUT

-■ " O . (By-the Outsider) : e (Reprinted without .permission n from last Monday's Matata Light. „ house) . e AVhen a ll the roads in the Bay had. y finished leading to Whakatane Dn- ) main for the epic Rangitaiki-Wha_ 3 Iwitanc clash last Saturday there was . a record attendance on the ground i pearly ."jo people. The moment i the teams appeared the crowd knew - the game was about to begin, though there was a slight delay as Croquet i Club debutantes were presented to . ''Sportsman," and the Whakatane Domain Board were wheeled on to Ihe ground to do a haka. Whakatane were the first to score when Mr Dodds ? curtseying prettily, kicked a goal. The ball struck the crossbar and Mr D.odds was reluctant to accept the score, but finally fell in with the wishes of the whole Rangitaiki team. Half.time came with the score unaltered, play having travelled up and down and across the field at." a terrific rate, which was so terrilu* that play became very even and owing to the even nature of the play neither side gained any advantage from the even nature of the play . which was played at . a terrific rate. At half.time the Rangitaiki team was rearranged, Fred Burt going into the pack, and Mrs Lees (who had i been playing offside on the sideline throughout the first and had earned several cautions), replacing the referee. Mr E. Howell earned applause after 1 a brilliant coekscrev? 1 run in which he several times swerved both ways at once. He ended his run by kicking a goal and tielng the score. First to congratulate him was ; Mr J. J. Best who gave him a lick at his toffee apple. Later Mr D. Wilson was seen urg_ , ing Mr Mac Howell to go off. "1 ; know you're tired Mac,'' he said. "Go off and have a rest. I'll play for you as wellMr Howell .then left the. field to applause led by the referee. The next stoppage came when M? ; E. Howell approached Mr Best and said ''Mr Best, as one captain to j another, I have to inform you that it i is the unanimous wish of my team that Whakatane be allowed to win. W T ill you therefore request Mr Dodds to officiate?'' Mi* Dodds. allowed himself to be and the game ended to thunders of applause with the sun sinking upside down in a flaming red [behind the non-existent grandstand. I had never seen anything like it. i * s * # Rotorua seems to have been " as bright as ever with the hundred pip_ : ers on parade last week. One of tuy!spies saw old Mac up there. Mac had a pair of false teeth in iiis pocket. "They're ma wife's'" he said, *"'I caught her eating between meals the other day." « * * * There was a young man of Te Kaha, Who said to his wife's papa-ha_ "Your daughter, I find, "Is a little inclined, ''To give her mama.ha the ha-ha.'» « $ * • There was a young man of Kaitunn Aspired to be a, ballooner, When over the sea, ; He exclaimed "Goodness me" ''Why didn't I think of that sooner." 9 « sS * An American judge has been sent to gaol for selling verdicts. American justice is still tho best that money can buy. sS # S W The Tientsin business may be the Japanese version of the strip-tease. $ * # * 'Nobody works in this blasted country' says Captain, A. H. Davcy of the Awatea. We take stcong except tion to the word "'blasted. * ~ * ,V Club Notes.. , / Here we go again, fellow Bad Deed- ■ ers. Look out for your lovely certificates -when Sam is energetic enough * to set them. Today's competition. Got a penny, little fellows? Have ; a glance at it, for there's more on it ■ than meets the eve. For example ; there are the following items (1) a •; fruit,, (2) some Flowers'. (3) a place : of worship. (-1) an hotel, (5) n.lne members of the Bad Deeds Club. Can you find them? For the neatest : and best solution I vill send you that; interesting volume "Kind Deeds'' by Dave. * * * » They were out on the briny near Whale Island yesterday "You aren't sick Mac, you? - ' said one braver of the Deep. ''Not. exactly, Keith'* cracked- Mac, "but I'drhate to yawn" The Hon. A. Hamilton denies that his lads are licking their wounds. They certainly aren't licking their chops.