Football a la Mode.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 392, 10 August 1889, Page 3

Football a la Mode.

"Punch"' thus apostrophises the noble pame that has so many supporters in New Zealand : — [Hardly a vrcck passes without our heaving of ono or more dangerous accidents at football.] A manly game it is, I think, Althotigh in private be it spoken. While at a scrimmage I don',t shrink. That bones may be too often broken. T snapped my clavicle last, week, Just like the fib' of an umbrella; And sprained my ankle, not to speak Of something wrong with my patella. Last season, too, my leg ! broke. And lay at home an idle dreamer. It's not considered ouite a joke To contemplate a broken fern nr. And when, despite the doctor's hints, Again at football I had tussles, I found myself once more in splints. With damaged gastronemic muscles. Some three times every Week my head Is cut, contused, or sorely shaken; My friends expect me brought home dead, But up to 7iow I've sored my bacon. lint What are broken bones, my boys. Compared with noble- recreation, The. scrimmages and all the joys, Of JRugby or Association 1 ?

JTor Old MUlhillians gainst Addiscotribe qn May 2nd, $„ Taylor had- a curious; experience while hoveling lii his. > % eco"n,d' over with ,his^ first ball, he hib the wioket wibboub removing fche bail's. The nexb ball clea.n j bowled the batsman, bub' being a no-ball the latter still had another^ "cshance. The third ball ? hbweret", clean bdwled him and there being no impedimonb this time, he had 'to retire. It does not often happen that one has to chronicle tmoh a record of '. three successive balls.