RUGBY FOOTBALL.
RANFURLY SHIELD. TIIK "DROVIMNC. OVERBOARD" TELEGRAM. WAIRARAI'A DENIES RESPONSIBILITY (Dy Telegraph.—Press Association.) MASTER TON, Friday. The well-known player, A. E. Cooke, who was captain of tin- Wairarapa Rugby team which recently defeated Canterbury for the Kanfurly Shield at Christchurch, emphatically denies that he or any other member of the team sent a reply to Mr. T. Jordan, the Mayor of Masterton, with reference to .Mr. Jordan's telegram of congratulation, in wlivjli he suggested that the shield might be dropped overboard, lie states that he and the other members of the team took the telegram in the same spirit in which it .was sent, as a Joke. The telegram was not read at the dinner after the match, but was read to members of the team in the lobby of the hotel where they stayed. The Press Association's telegram from Christchurch, in which it was reported that two prominent members of the Wairarapa team were forwarding a reply couched in certain words, was not .justified.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 177, 28 July 1928, Page 16
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166RUGBY FOOTBALL. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 177, 28 July 1928, Page 16
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