THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
Foorn.u.i.. The game of football is the oldest of all British athletic sports of Kngland. For six hundred years, at least, the people have loved the rush and struggle of this rough, hut manly game. Cricket may at times have attracted greater interest among the leisured classes; boat races may have drawn larger crowds of spectators from distant places, hut football, which flourished centuries before cricket was known, and before boating had heroine a pastime, may claim to le not only idle oldest, hut ako the most popular of the athletic sports of the Empire.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 April 1923, Page 2
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99THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 30 April 1923, Page 2
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