THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
Deoi!i:us Or Sportsmanship. AVlien a New Zealand sportsman says that the New South AY a lea footballers were more popular in Engl-tii l than our own players because fchev *. o not display so much "g.'imness ana implacability” and incidentally it may be stated that in general New Zealanders are a good deal more popular in England than Australia*—the manager of the New Zealand team makes a retort that will have arisen in the minds of many, that the All Blacks would have been as popular as the Warntahs if they had cared to lose a match or two. This must not be taken as casting a .serious reflection on the sportsmanship of English crowds. As the Cliristehureh “Press” says in some wise comment on this criticism of the All Blacks, “everyone knows that while the graceful loser will always be popular with the crowd, the eternal winner can hardly be so even if he has the spirit of an archangel.’’
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 March 1928, Page 2
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164THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 23 March 1928, Page 2
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