FOOTBALL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 387, 21 May 1908, Page 3

FOOTBALL.

Apart from the hotel expenses, the members of the Anglo-Welsh football team receive two shillings a day pocket money. Thursday is pay day. Some members of the team spent their week’s pocketmoney before noon yesterday.

Football scribes will have to be particularly careful, says the Dominion, in writing reports of the matches to be played by the British (or, as some call it, the AngloWelsh) team, owing to the number of “repeats” in the team. The circumstances is reminiscent of the man who tried to locate a particular Mr Jones iu a Welsh directory, and died from brain fag in the attempt. The Welshmen are again the source of trouble iu this case. There are the Jones brothers (“Guy’s” and “ Ponty Messrs W. B. and E. Morgan, who are not related, and Messrs G. 8., J. F., and J. 18. Williams, who are also strangers in blood if not iu nationality. “Rule Britauia; Cymru am byth; hip, hip, hurrah!” The battle-cry of the visiting footballers may well strike awe into the hearts of their opponents ou the field. It was used to telling effect at the conclusion of the official reception at the Town Hall-last evening, when the visitors stood on chairs and gave vent to their feelings iu an expressive, although not altogether euphonious, manner., It may be stated, for the benefit of the uninitiated New Zealander, that the words Cymru am byth are Welsh, and the translation is “ Wales for ever ! ”