“TWO UP.”

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1029, 11 April 1912, Page 4

“TWO UP.”

CEERGY PAY A SURPRISE

VISIT.

It is not often that the patrons of the two-up game are able to boast of a visit of three clergymen attired in their ministerial apparel to their assembly (says the Sydney Daily Telegraph), but a local baud of devotees of this amusement, numbering between fifty and sixty men and boys, were honoured in this way on a recent Sunday at their usual meeting at Hurstville, when the Church of England Men’s Society, under the leaderships of the Revs. S. D, Yarrington, Dixon, Hudson and H. Arnold, decided to beard them in their den, or rather at their wellknown rendezvous at the foot of Maher street, which is under ten minutes’ walk from Hurstville station, to hold a service, and to carry out the divine injunction to go into the highways and the byways. Knowing the shy and retiring disposition affected by twoup players, owing, no doubt, to their sensitive natures, it was decided to send an advance party, consisting ox two of the society’s members, ahead, so as to endeavour to reassure them in the event of them stampeding, while the main body, numbering about a score, strolled quietly along. In order to secure themselves from the public gaze, some ot the more energetic members of the two-up association had erected a screen of ti-tree bushes, which added to the picturesqueuess as well as the privacy of the scene. The usual scramble to obtain possession of the kip and double-headed pennies ensued. The missioners endeavoured meanwhile to reassure them that they were not members of the police force, by pointing out how easy it would have been to have surrounded them if the intention had been to arrest them. On the service getting under way, and attracted by the spirited siuging, gradually they emerged from their temporary hiding-places behind rocks, stumps, bushes, etc., and listened to the messages which the various speakers had for them, and no doubt many of them as a result ot this surprise visit and the earnest pleadings may be induced to turn over a new leat.