Footballing.
“ Touch Line ” writing in a Canterbury journal says : —lt is very monotonous’ week after week, to have to write in the same doleful strain about bad musters, want of energy and general apathy of our footballers, but unless the game is in a flourishing state it is impossible to write anything cheerful about it, and there is no concealing the fact that at present there is less interest taken in football matters than there has been for some years pastThere are nominally three clubs in Christchurch, viz., the Christchurch Club, the Ravens, and the, East Christchurch. The first named is. the original club, and there is no denying it is the strongest here, and I think I may say in the province. Now it is very deplorable to see such a club with a/large membership unable to get together two Fifteens to play a Saturday match in the middle of the season, tvhen the game ought to be at its height, but such is the case, as the last two Saturdays have shown. The reason for this is hard to discover, and I can only think that the majority of the C.F.C’s members are men (?) who desire to be called footballers, and have aslittle claim to the name as possible ; fellows who know that football is the noblest of games and strive to usurp the name of footballer, and have not pluck enough to turn up and play a game. Let us hope this state of things in the premier club will soon give place to greater activity and interest among its members. The Ravens and East Christchurch Clubs are the offspring of the defunct Eastern Club, and it seems to me that the splitting up has scarcely proved a success. The more clubs you can support the better but it is no use having a club which netfer plays; and really that appears to be the case with the Ravens this season. The East Christchurch, although the youngest club, sets a very good example to its eldersAlready the members have made two trips
oae to Eangiora, and pne to Ashburton. In each case they have proved victorious, solely on account of their superior train-
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Patea Mail, 5 July 1882, Page 3
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366Footballing. Patea Mail, 5 July 1882, Page 3
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