FOOTBALL.
AUSTRALIAN SPIRIT CRITICISED, By Telegraph rress Assn —Copyright London, Oct. 18 The Athletic News interviewed Wagstaffe', ft member of the English League team which recently toured Australia and New Zealand, who attributed the team's defeats in Australia to inability to develop combination, failure of the forwards to get the ball from the scrum, and his own failure to reproduce pr tper skill. The standard of football In Australia was inferior to that prevailing in 1914. The spirit of the rules was often ignored In order that play might bo speeded up and l.iade m>»re spectacular. Wagstaffe regrets that the spirit of sportsmanship war, not shown, either by the public or a section of the press, whon the British teem won the test. He concluded: "In Sydney adherents of Rugby are al! right Kl-en tL-ey win, but they are very bad loser:.;' Thomas confirmed the opinion thai the team was outplayed by the Australians f'i the forward division. He never saw a moru unsportsmanlike exhibition Hum that at the last test. Evidently the average Australian was unable to take a licking —Am.-X 7 t . Cdb'e Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 October 1920, Page 3
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