CANT WE JUST PLAY RUGBY?

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31724, 6 July 1968, Page 12

CANT WE JUST PLAY RUGBY?

(By WHIM WHAM) Th. British Rucbv Lions overwhelmed Eastern Transvaal, IS be a br r oken M “ p k by Ihe police . . 20 players started to mix it in the middle of the field. —News item. The World, as Everybody knows, Is going from Bad to Worse,— Sir, you can say again in Prose What I have said in Verse,— Ever since Eve’s and Adam s Kiss Things have been going on like This. Civil Commotion everywhere! And everywhere, Disquiet Uneasy in my Easy Chair, I read of All this Riot. I do not like my Peace disturbed,— I want those Students to be curbed. Why can’t the Fighting all be done By military Formations? — The Violence discharged in None But suitable Locations? I DO hate Violence and War so! (I gave a Dollar, once, to Corso.) The Rugby Field is Holy Ground. Lord, keep It so, I pray. There, Grace and Sportsmanship abound, And Love,—as Best it may. I don’t know Which is most exciting, The Game, the Glory—or the Fighting! The yelling, kicking, punching Game’s The Game I give my Heart to, — So pure from Politics its Aims, So exquisite its Art, too! Who wants a Riot when Rugby’s got Bad Blood, foul Play, fair Fight,—the Lot!