RETROSPECT

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 528, 11 May 1933, Page 7

RETROSPECT

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1933 TEST JROES GAMB OF SetM ClilKGyaJfSMANTHEOBY

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,r» caid Thomaski Joneflf the R°yal ^epl1 , Vcfate of Prospenty ) , ^fSrecori). "We fconsider some extra- , 1'ps which have re1 excavations carried , * in the L barbarian era of the 4s you know, vSre overwhelmed by t" Sh«" i» «f >'Mr ,««ches of mumLrs of that era it & the conftagmhon nWering over the hai- ° at that time and the 5 fanned by the V™* ,fav. Hence the woid [ were, oot researches jink, a species of i-;hot teed at vantage pmntb Ifthe gladiatorial con;ket or Crikey. ] ts were known as football, although «,ne entific thought cansulei.s |me was more nkely itffoukl appear that the |re "fans" was to blow I arena and thus make Isant for the performers I the objeet seemed to Ltrith a hard stitehed |t vath great force and Kt a second man s ribs. |as given a species of ■of wood and known as a iich to defend himsell. I hurled the ball v a> ( |wn as a "cow,", the Kis being very obseure, a IfflV," or a "eorker," acle'point of view of the llieets of the day seemed Jeat deal of attention to iontests. Most of those lo'jrned in the conflagniBrom the "ashes," but i'orftwereso tough that they Ite and it is minnmiihd E;e to which we owe our ■inforsiation. |i Minor Matters. Ls aho allotted s>mc If their spaee to simdry Ijiatta's Tvhich xvere c»n|0f the statesmen of t'ne Itacce, thcugh all nation-; iag great quantitics of peria!, the machinevy of ■tee amongst the p >pnlao raeans perfeef and Is of the people wero ■necessities of life. There ■ tohesorae talk oi' whep. should or should not ■ co'irse this may have p frdent desire to see plarger scale. It must Berer, that the popnlace pdlittle interest in these fcsions, the main politiU problems of the day K crikey in the summer ■nthe winter. ■cme of Football. ■game would seem to !k> ! ■on of the former. In it j §' a large oval cr round ! Bei The modus operandi ■ct the victim's attention ■e ball in the air and j ■hira in the ribs. This j ■ the kieking into toueh j ■Imuch in favonr with j B effect vhich these I Kjstimes had on the popu- j ■ge has been revealecl by | ■ of some skulls exeaBregion formerly known i B" or oles," in Austra■fflummified skulls bear K °f stitches and it is I Bght that tliis was a j ■m of the fans who had j Bjecorated with stitclies | m the stitching used in Bballs. Bfoodian school of theoBthese stitches were inBr the wounds inflieted ■yother'fans" hittinpr Bulls with bottles, Tbe | ^Behind this theory was | But a particle of paper The neo-Lar-Bthat this was a species Bjubhttles in those ciays ^Pties are the nanie heBf written by a wri'ne j ■ Shaw who had oni.- 1 BaPla}Tight. But researches diselose j B^yrace, the parallal ! B'y be found am-my -i j ^pof Africa who threw ! B passers-by. It 1? ; ■h that the "fans," \ ■ldi?position, took the ; B?eeling the oran g .. s j