FOOTBALL.
Mesdames Walsh, Sotheran and McGill have presented a football to th« Old Boys- Club. The gift is fully appreciated. A meeting of the Union will be held at Levin on Tuesday next. Following is the Otaki team to play at Otaki on Saturday against Te Horo: Webby, Tuna, Robinson (2), Neilson, Dougherty, King, Maafu, Tahiwi (2), Giddens, Subritzky. Fogden, Giblin, Hakaraia, Targuse. Mr A. H. Lees, of the Jubilee Hotel, has kindly donated two gold medals and half-a-guinea to the Te Horo Football Club, to be awarded the best forward and the best back. The selection will be made by the players.
A good story is told of the Rev. Mullineux, who recently visited Palmerston North. He captained the English football team of IS9S and when in Australia he had a rule that one of his players was lined Is if he swore publicly. "I thought it a good thing to try to check this.' ; he said when reminded of it in Sydney recently. "No, I don't remember how much the fines, yielded, but I do remember one evening Scotty Grey, a big, raw-boned Scotchman, -who had had an annoying day, came to me, and handing me half a sovereign, remarked, 'Take it out of that. Cap.' "
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Otaki Mail, 5 April 1922, Page 2
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