FOOTBALL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 96, 13 August 1914, Page 6

FOOTBALL.

Under the heading; "Biassed Spectators," the correspondent of . the Otago Daily Times traveling with the All-Blncks, writes:—"A Oneensland crowd is at any time a very biassed one, but the spectators <:t this match certainly broke all reiordc. Throughout the second spell tlu-v hooted "our men' continuously and loudly urged their players to kill or knock out Roberts. So7ne of the ex ;>•'£«- sions used regarding Rangi Wilson would probably have earned some one a month's imprisonment if they ha 1 been used in a public;;; place. Fortunately, the players were not affected in any way. At the conclusion of the game a crowd escorted the referee off the field and assailed him with some.of the most -filthy epithets imaginable'. It was perhaps fortunate, for both him and our manager that the .police escorted them both from the playing area to the dressing room. It may not be easy to understand why the referee should have, been so treated, but perhaps the fact that he was impartial was a sufficient reason. Saturday evening was 'spenl' at the Stadium, and at 8 on Siihd.-ry morning the train lev'c For' Sydney. The team saw little or nothing of the local union officials while in Brisbane, and for that and other reasons wero well pleased when the train pulled out of the station."