A GAME OF FOOTBALL
sir,-Truly one half of the world doesn’t know how the other half lives, but The Listener is doing a good job of work by enlightening us from time to time. Knowing nothing of the ways of footballers, I was enlightened as well as entertained by your recently-pub-lished story by A. P. Gaskell, though my thoughts since have been less of football than of language. One continually reads things these days which make apparent the extent to which the "swear words" of yesterday have become the ordinary slang of to-day. Or perhaps it is that writers to-day, being so keenly devoted to truth, must represent things as they are at all costs. Whatever the reasons, some of us have to decide whether the trend is a good one or a bad one and act accordingly. For myself, I find I have begn making the war an excuse for my own more frequent tendency to use expletives, but I know this is a sign of weakness and frustration and an unworthy contribution to a muddled enough world. So into training once more! And my thanks to Mr. Gaskell. It is not only the preachers who make us toe the line -though they do make us sensitive to
good and evil.-
AUNT
J.
(Nelson).
Sir,-This note is written in appreciation of the article by A. P. Gaskell, "One Hell of a»Caper," which appeared in the number of April 28. It would no doubt be of interest to all. footballers. It would be of particular interest to those who have played at. ‘Carisbrook, and in finals there. But it would be to men who have played for Varsity A in such games that the article would be most vivid and enjoyable. I .write as one who has done so. As I read the article the thrills of those days were very vividly recaptured. The article. was written in a way which did that very strikingly for those who had been through that "Hell of a Caper." : :
IAN G.
BORRIE
(Timaru).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 259, 9 June 1944, Page 7
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340A GAME OF FOOTBALL New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 259, 9 June 1944, Page 7
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