FAREWELL BANQUET.
SYDNEY, August 13.
The Englishmen were' entertained to a farewell banquet.
The Rev. M. Mullineux, in responding- to the toast of his health, said he felt it his duty to speak against anything which the English Rugby Union would not acknowledge as good sport. He had observed deliberate breaches of the rules, such as holding people back when coming away from the
scrums, pushing- men in the lin^oni who had not got the ball, and sticking elbows in a man's face in the sorua He had been told that the Australia remedy for this was to bite the man's hand, but Eng-lishmen had not vJ masterered the art of cannibalism Another thing and one of the lowest tricks he had seen was shouting after an opponent for a pass. He hoped they would eradicate these blots from Australian football. Australia p O s! sessed excellent players. The visitors had learnt something from then, in the way of marking- with the balianfl ,in forward play.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 191, 14 August 1899, Page 6
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