A FRIENDLY GAME OF FOOTBALL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2306, 23 July 1921, Page 4

A FRIENDLY GAME OF FOOTBALL.

Female footie goes ahead merrily in Sydney (remarks the Melbourne Leader)/ It is proposed, in the interests of law and order, to restrict the attendance at matches to women and girls, the paper adds, and then breaks into verse: —

They went, ten thohsand of the fair, To see the Maids of Athens play The Rink Girleens. The latter were From Sydney town, all fresh and gay, The Maids of Athens were, in short, The local team. A friendly game Was to be played (or may be fought); The crowd had come to view the

same. The barrackers, with rapture new, Were wholly girls in pink or blue.

The game commenced. The umpire

stout —

A dame of 40 was no less. As chaperone, without a doubt, She would have been a great suc-

cess

The lines that she was built on though

Were not designed for speed. Alas 1 She lagged behind in breathless woe, Or seated panting on the grass. She gave a free kick to the maids, Or blocked the Pinkies’ lawless raids

And round the ground ten thousand girls

Cried: “Buck in, Maidens!” “Smash ’em, Pinks!” When Maudie tore down Minnie’s curls And howls were heard at Caulfield links. Then Hannah in a frantic race (The ball she in her apron bore), In anger scratched Matilda's face, And Melbourne steeples in the roar

Were seen to hob and oscillate. The crowd was in a frantic state

When Janet boxed poor Kit tie's

ears,

The stolid umpire interfered. “Now, try do to he good girls, dears!”

But Kiltie’s cries were long and

weird. She took hysterics. Moral wrecks May, Maud, and Millie follow suit It’s not the nature of the -ex

In such a case to linger mule. When one’s hysterical each -he Is prone to squeal in sympathy.

So when the panting player- -aw Their sisters tumbling in distress, They, too, observed the natural law. And went down squealing more or less, Till only seven maids remained. Of rather sterner stuff were they. Two hundred points these quickly gained. For while their weak opponents lay In wild hysteric- or a faint. They just kicked goals without restraint.

The Maid- of Athens won with ease. The other -ide made haste in vain To overtake the score which these Adroitly bad contrived to gain. Then frenzy seized the Pink Girl-

cells

And even as their brothers do The harraekor.- to smithereens

Tore one unhappy creature, wh Hid 'noaih a gamp. Then throng the dinTen copper- brought the impire in!