MANLINJSSS IN SPORT.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43116, 11 July 1907, Page 4

MANLINJSSS IN SPORT.

The following is an extract from a letter written !by a Rhodes scholar who is studying at Home, and which appeared in ‘‘The School Journal” for last month : —•

“We left early the- last day of the term in order to spend the daiy at Winchester. In the morning we went over the fine cathedral, and in the afternoon were met. by one of the 'boys from the school. He showed us all over, and it was indeed most interesting. In New Zealand one cannot realise what position the great English public schools take in the country. At Oxford, of course, T could nob help noticing it, but I understand it mulch more since I have seen several public schools. They really do turn out a fine class of men, and the best are all characteristic. A meat' number have football games: of their own —-generally characterised by the absence of referees nd penal the. Tf a man is offside —well, he gets on-side; if he does it often, the captain of his side will let him know : it is not good form, that is all, and the chief thin- for the English school boy is to act always in good form, and this really means a. great deal. At Oxford wo often plnv hockey matches without referees, the captain of the respective sides appealing quietly and giving decisions in the same manner. Never once have I seen anything that might be described as even approaching a 'dispute. Fancy the without a referee! I tremble to think of it.”