Puffs and Rebuffs.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8105, 4 June 1906, Page 6

Puffs and Rebuffs.

Kia Toa juniors tire entering a protest against the decision of Referee Mundy in disallowing a try after he had iirfit awarded it! Humour hath it that Institute Club intend protesting ngainst Old Boys' win on Saturday on the grounds that they played a man not eligible. It the Ilugby Union adhere to their present custom of starting matches at Si 00 p.m. they will necessarily aoon have to consider ways and means of lighting the ground with some illuminant for their festive occasions. It is a disgrace that spectators should be kepli waiting about for tmch a length of time. You're only killing the game as fast as possible by this procedure, Irieh wit: When the police ofiioial was /rying to extract the name of a certain player at Fcildiug, someone called out from the lino: " Don't tell him your name mentioning the very name the police required. The constable smiled, noted the name in his book, and

walked quietly away, evidently sa'.i'fied. A Nolan Felt appreciation from Edinburgh University; "This season Foil has scored 40 points for his University, and umde nil tha running for as many more, In pace he has lout nothing, his 1 head work improves, if possible, at every match, while the 'Fell swerve,' that indescribable top speed curl which will over keep his name famous in the tcchmoalitica of the < game, haa never bdeu more deadly than this winter." i A Nelson resident writes to a New Plymouth friend: - Snip Allen is playing junior football for tbo Mofcuoka Club, Ho is as fat as ever." A» afootbailer " Snip " dies hard ; even the great transition from a New Zealand rep. to junior eluh man cannot kill bis keen desire to follow the leather. Time was when Allen was one of the moat dashing and heady of the many dashing and heady playera of this land of football.

'< * i * i. I ■ H« #UH.: we - of' hi* tbiiikiittg ; apparatus when Ijnlten lfc» i#r#»y on, toil j bo fs too stjiniiidiiiow for J#.4ilng wmk. ; If he could «om<i ikmn » wapio or three j aiUmo—a, physical impossibility, apparently *h« IiJO height of hi# ; pwwnt day iKMiblliltmi A "Ciitftmi Ciironielef" it* tbo Now Zealand Time'# : iwym — u Tjv'e giv l ap r-roadin' th' Bw<j«tan cable# am' gain" t' tib'inelo<Jb»miiiij lihfll Miko Joseph an' Jim Maemahon eutvia caeh other fa pronouncm' t' lxi th' Br-rea.te*t thriurap 111 th' wurrHi," (urfti Mir .Doolcy. " Bat I thought yo Hkod th 5 ithventtw life,? said Mr EannoMjr* " I do, Jawn, act' Us bectu'. ih' borab« an' diseuibow! mints iv Muscovy has groum m tamo iia Charlie Mill* that I'vo givo thim up,; An' th* tmlodhrama mvor contain# more than fifty cbatlw, I have discovered that th* futbal! news contains mora blood em' roon t' Hh' inch lihiti * Th' Blood-stained Keyhole' contains t' th' Bfjus.ro net. Whin th* hope iv th* family kJ»wc« Ihis relatious farewell as be sets out fr I?e* tone, an* talis thi«u whore hw insurances pol'ey is bid, ho cudn't tell yo whether bo will be brought home io th' amhu • lance or in handcuffs. Last Saturdnh'rt games in Dunedin yteldeJ six hospital cases—'twas » most auccOHsful Saturdab. I can sen th' time whin th' futbttli roporthor will lima describe a match : * Smith kicked off f'r th* maneater# an' etbruck th' opposin' wing f'rward in th' wlar plexus, A rapid bit to piny re waited in iive legs bcin' fraclilmred in (seeihmt style., I'r'ui th* serum Jones eusapeci, ai:t' got away with Brown's tsar, but was p;ouip'!y graced by n hot wan on th' point, Fr'oi a free luck th" survtvin' thr«M|uarther iv th' Thugs caved in th' akull iv" th' Mianeaters captain, inn' thin play Milled down f'r a timo on Bebinson'fs «loraoeh. An exchange of broken collar-bnneis led t' a spell iv slow play, an' th* furrst spell ended : Man eaters, B killed, 4 unconscious; Thugs; 1 killed, 0 moribund. During th' accornl npell five more refroes wux carried away in th' ambulance, an' play wuz brisker.' It makes me tired,, Jawn, t' hear tb* ignorant coimmnls on th' anhrocities in IlusHsa. Kassiu ia an afthcrnoon tea party t' th' ruodberen scientific futb&ll game. But futball in useful, all th' Harae," "How is it ifor" asked 'Mr .Hennessey. " it previntß rev'liiiions an* J wish massacre*?. If they had futbal! in; ■Russia, (lieretrud be no bombs or rrv'. lution.s. Tb' tiairtrhi-t wud buy a jerrsey an' sail in, an' tlr throtible wud be in a meat Is, an' th' «an iiurvivin' EuHsiau wud elect hinueli: Czar."