ROUGH PLAY AT FOOTBALL
(To the Editor.)
Sir,—Aa one of the spectators present at
the football' match on Saturday last between the North Shore and Grafton teams,
I feel it incumbent upon trie to emphatically contradict tho statements that have appeared in your columns- with regard to the specially rough play indulged in on that occasion. There was nothing of the k'nd to be seen worse than what takes plaoa at Potter's Paddock every Saturday-afternoon throughout, the season. A winning team naturally excites. ,-fealousy, which perhaps accounts for the unfair accusations levelled against the North Shore players on the score of rough play. There is. it must, be admitted, needless roughness indulged in occasionally by Individual players in idmost every football team, which it should be the duty of the.re-feree to check with due discretion, for after all a Rugby football match is not a .game that can be played with tho decorous tameness of a clerical croquet party. .But to insinuate that the North Shore players are -one whit more blameworthy in regard to rough play than those-of any other team this year is s'mply untrue and grossly unfair.—l am, etc.,
DROP-KICK,
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 162, 11 July 1899, Page 2
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