WHAT A PITY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 93, 23 August 1913, Page 3

WHAT A PITY.

FOOTBALL WIT. The dolir looks of local football enthusiasts have been somewhat lightened by the result of the AucklandTaranaki Ranfurly Shield match, says the Gisborue Herald. Such severe criticism was meted out to the Poverty Hay footballers after they had done their best that the impression was formed that the Northern city men were the only footballers who thoroughly understood the finer points of the game. Saturday's result shows that this was not so, and a local wag, remembering the telgraphed comment ."that the Auckland Union had wasted a day playing the country union," was impelled to send a telegram to the Auckland Star, from whoses columns the criticism emanated, to the following effect:—"Sorry you have, had another wasted day. What a pity!" The Star took its revenge in the following manner: "The recent criticism in these columns of the Poverty Bay team seems to have been taken very much to heart in that district, and the defeat of Auckland by Taranakft brought the writer the following wire: 'Football scribe, Auckland Star—Sorry you had another wasted Saturday.—(Signed) Poverty Bay." "What a pity the sender was too bashful to sign his own name to the ( wire, for it is anything but right i that such originality should be allowed to pass without credit being bestowed in the proper quarter. Poverty Bay humor appears to. have reached the same standard as its football." "...