SPORT AND THE WAR.
[BLBOTEIO TBLBOBAFH—UOFXJUOHT.] £fbb pbms association.] (Received This Day 10 a.m.)
Sydney, Jan. 26. Mi- Hill, secretary of the New Sknith Wales Rugby Union, has received a letter from Mr Marriott, the English secretary, stating that over 90 per cent of the English players lias gone to the front. Every international player of tfie last three years has joined the forces. News from Vancouver indicates that 75 per cent of the players have enlisted. Locally over 50 per cent of the players have volunteered. The South Sydney Athletic Club will not send a team to the Panama Exposition contest. It has decided that. : fc is belter to supply men for the firing line than to promote competitions in neutral countries.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 January 1915, Page 3
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123SPORT AND THE WAR. Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 January 1915, Page 3
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