AN AWKWARD PAIR

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 73, 17 June 1927, Page 10

AN AWKWARD PAIR

A T , °" e time the North Shore - club had a pair of Scottish ‘*' nß * ere as alike as two pins, and Perseus” had the unenviable task of having to separsito them peacefully on many occasions. When playing apart they were very solid forwards of the robust type, with all the tricks of the trade in the way of footwork but if played together they would' neglect the ball to start up an argument with each other in a broad dialect which called for the services of an interpreter to grasp its finer points of invective. So the Shore solved the problem by playing one at inside right and the other inside left, with the writer at ce nt r e forward. In a hard game with Ponsonby, one of the twins crashed into the goalkeeper with quite unnecessary force and when the melee in the goal-mouth cleared the referee ordered one off. He indignantly denied the soft impeach ment and pointed to his twin brother as the offender. Angus swore it. was Neil, and Neil was equally sure it was Angus, and the referee was in q quandry whether to send off both or neither. The referee, after a very pointed remark about the peculiar products °' Scotland, disallowed the goal and warned the twins that any more of that funny sort of business would mean a breather for both.