MAC AND THE WAITRESS
TH ERE are some men who cannot grow old, and one of them J. W. McHolm, the veteran Canterbury hammer thrower. At the hotel at which the New Zealand athletic team stayed in Wellington this week “Mac” noticed a great deal of bustling going on at lunch time, and inquired the reason ot a waitress. She told him that preparations were going forward for a dinner to the athletes that evening, and added, by way ot warning, that ordinary guests mu*t dine before seven o’clock. “o h ' said “Mac,” registering disappointment, “I’d like to get into that Isn't there any chance of getting in?” The waitress gazed pityingly at the old man’s bald pate. ‘‘No. she said kindly. “It’s for athletes only. If we let you in all the others would want to get in, too.” But in the end she promised that if “.Mac were hanging round the door whan dinner started, and there to be a vacant chair, she would try and smuggle him in!
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 240, 30 December 1927, Page 10
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