A GOOD ADVERTISEMENT.
OJfE of the indirect methods of advortis ing Australia which are ci edited to the team of cricketers now in England (remarks aii exchange) leceived an illustration in connection with the dinner recently given by tin Savage Club to the Australian Eleven During the evening one of the guests recited tho late Adam Lindsay GoidonV stining poem, " How we beat the favourite." The London Sporting Life, in repoiting the dinner, especially mentions the recitation, and characteiises the poem as the " best bit of galloping poetry we Know."' bo charmed is the Spoi fcmg Lifi with Gordon's well-known lines that it prints the poem ni citcuso. A social gatheiing in connection with ''Our bo>s" lias thus been the niediis of bringing the name and verses of an Australian poet piominently befoic a class of English readers who, probably, up to that time, had never heard Gordon's name.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1877, 17 July 1884, Page 4
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149A GOOD ADVERTISEMENT. Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1877, 17 July 1884, Page 4
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