FOOTBALL.
The following comment from the Australian Star illustrates, how the New South Wales folk took the beating of their representative football team in New Zealand:—"Were our men beaten at the game of football, or at the New Zealand pastime of bullocking? Qood and unbiassed judges, hailing neither from New South Wale?, nor from the * Britain of the South,' who in previous years have witnessed the game in tbe latter country, have declared that all the science was with the New Scuth Welshmen, all the ' north country navigation' (main strength and stupidity) with the Maorilanders. A beefy giant, armed with a claymore, would most probably effectively, carve" a smaller master at arms wielding only a puny rapier. And if the contest was to the death, the giant would probably claim that be 'got I there,' science or no science. But footI ball is not a sport necessarily played to the death. It is, or should be, an exhibition of scientific skill, and not merely a display of the comparative esse with which hard, heavy men can prance over others of slighter build."
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 219, 25 September 1901, Page 2
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182FOOTBALL. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 219, 25 September 1901, Page 2
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