Prejudice

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 144, 11 June 1889, Page 2

Prejudice

At the football match on the Oval yesterday afternoon a large number of the spectators gave rent to their feelings in favor of the local team, in a manner which savored strongly of rank bad taste. V\ henever the Feilding men made a point, or what the spectators in their ignorance of the game imagined was one, they shouted " Well done Feilding," and on the other hand, when the Greytown men deserved applause the silence was painfully evident. A great number of men mistake prejudice for loyalty, and the majority of the Feilding folks who were on the Oval yesterday came within the compass of that rule. The Greytown team, taking them man for man, were better physically aud better players than the Feilding team, and would be the victors in two out of three games on any ground. Feild ing certainly beat them, but it was by one of those lucky chances which so often change defeat into victory. From the beginuing of the game Feilding had the worst of it. That they fought gallantly, and played their best, goes without saying, and under the circumstances perhaps deserved all the credit they got, but we strongly protest against that narrowminded local spirit which could see no merit in the play of their opponents. We hope this will be the last time we shall have to find fault with the Feildiug people on this score.