GOLF OR RUGBY

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 31, 3 July 1939, Page 7

GOLF OR RUGBY

o AN ORIGINAL PARODY < THE FOOTBALLERS' MOURNE"' In deprecation of the trend of the >outh of the country in playing goif nsfcead of football, a Cambridge re_ iident has taken the words of the )k? Irish song, "The Mountains o* bourne'' and adapted the in to th-* 'ollowing:—S T o\v rugby's a great game you all must agrec j rhe national .sport of this little country; But watching the play as the years come and go, It' fS not quite the same as, say, ten years ago. With Hautapu playing with Bricuy as half, They might have been bound for the ball or tlie bath. But for all those hard games th;:y then used to play, There's something quite diffcrcn" in rugby to-day. Well, what has gone wrong with the football to-day? Is there too much of this two up and one for to play? With all those plus fours no doubt, to be seen, And there's gangs of them 'ligging for balls on the green. So catching the craze, for when duty calls. ' . - , I just took a hand at this looking for balls. But for all those great pastimes 1 might as well be Just one of those boys who play old rugby. So get going you boys, and pull up j your socks^ We soon will be meeting again tinSpringboks. Keep up to the scratch with ?ome physical jerks, And you soon will be tough as those boys called the Bourkes. Get scoring the tries and kicking the goals, Not putting small balls into little round holes. So with some good football you might perhaps be A-joining the All Blacks away o ei the sea. —Niblick.