PERSONAL.
Four Now Zealanders took part in a match at Durban against the English Rugby team that recently toured South Africa, viz., R. Goldstone, A. F. W. Hill, A. B. Rosooe, and Mathison. The lastnamed will be remembered by Auckland enthusists, as a member of the Grafton District Club’s first fifteen. f Mr F. A. Asquith, of Christchurch, who recently returned to the colony from a nine months’ holiday the Old Country, in the course of ah interview in a Southern papor, says ho discussed with several prominent English footballers the possibilities of on New Zealand toam visiting Britain, and all concurred in stating that the success or failure <of such a team would depend entirely upon its play. It could not travel a yard .on sentiment, nor draw a “ gate " on the strength of its having travelled from New Zealand. Association football he found was gradually edging the Rugby game out. So far as Rugby was concerned, the players at Home interpreted the rules of the game far more in their spirit than was customary in New Zealand, where the letter was regarded as essential. This made the game much more sportsmanlike, and if a New Zealand team should visit the Oid Country it would probably suffer from Che refereeiDg.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1055, 24 November 1903, Page 2
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211PERSONAL. Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1055, 24 November 1903, Page 2
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