SPORTS CLUBS’ BARS IN U.K.
N.Z. Hockey Player Impressed
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, December 1.
The small, well-controlled bars that each sports club in England owned and operated presented a direct contrast to the “after-the-game” drinking in New Zealand. which he regarded as purely “swilling,” a New Zealand hockey representative, Ivan Armstrong. of Christchurch, said oh his return today from overseas. He said that sport in England, especially its social side, was wonderfully organised. “If New Zealand sports clubs could get such bars here, they would improve their finances and be able to improve their facilities,” he said.
Armstrong, a New Zealand hockey representative since 1950, went to England two years ago after representing the Dominion at hockey at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne.
-While in England he played in the Kent County hockey team, umpired at Wimbledon, and qualified as a British amateur athletic coach and M.C.C. youth cricket coach.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29067, 2 December 1959, Page 18
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