"FLANNELLED FOOLS."
DID KIPLiSG MEAN IT? London, Oct. 22. A clergyman at the Church Congress having declared that cricket was a- loafing, lazy game, Mr. "Plum" Warner, at a dinner at the Playgoers' Club, indignantly refuted the assertion. He disclosed the interesting fact that he had asked Rudyard Kipling in South Africa, i. f lie really thought cricketers as bad as the famous phrase "Flannelled fools and muddied oafs" implied. Mr. Kipling replied, "In tfhis world, if you do not exaggerate, nobody will take any notice of you."
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 November 1920, Page 6
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88"FLANNELLED FOOLS." Taranaki Daily News, 9 November 1920, Page 6
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