SPORTSMANSHIP.
Sir,—lf the standard of sport at Paeroa is as high as the actions of two of the. so-called sports, no local sport will “set the Thames on fire.” Tiwugh young, yet old enough - to know much better, a local man recently took advantage of his semiinvalitl state to bait a partly intoxicated man. The latter, driven to a frenzy, at the first, opportunity punched'(not viciously) his tormentor. His action was merely one of self-defence. Immediately he was thus able to retaliate a friend or relative of the tormentor felled him —a man of fifty years and small of stature—by a terrific blow on the ear.
This occurred on a field of sport. Is it sport ? Did either “young blood” act in a sporting manner? Granted an intoxicated man has no right on the field ; but did such unsporting and ungentlcmanly behaviour improve matters ? A sport Is usually a gentleman : they appear to be neither. I think their behaviour, surely that Jt larrikins, is despicable, and an everlasting disgrace to them as well as to the club to which they belong. R. U. A. SPORT ?
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4821, 6 April 1925, Page 2
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185SPORTSMANSHIP. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4821, 6 April 1925, Page 2
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