Digger Sport

NZ Truth, Issue 1198, 15 November 1928, Page 6

Digger Sport

MET Major Tommy Wilkes the other night—- a thorough pacer jn'; the trotting ways of sportsmanship. Not that he is hobbled (or is it "hop-, pled"?), but just that wherever a few of the lads are congregated — heavy plutocratic lads, glad smoke-concert lads x>r just plain, unembroidered ones', —the major and his distingue moustache may tie observed m the van of things. .■■'■• His good friends who act as executives on the Returned Soldiers' Association committee m Wellington have compiled many eulogies on iiis behalf. Quite recently it was brought to one's notice that the number of individual encomia which they labelled to the portmanteau of one Major " Tommy seemed well-nigh sufficient to decorate the exterior of our House of Representatives. A good many returned chaps have affectionate memories of Wilkes as a flying man "Over There"—recollections which have not suffered from the stabs of disillusionment that sometimes come with the passage of years. Glad to know, you, major!