" Any exeuso is better ■ tian'none," was characteristic of a number of' applications for transfers from ono club to another presented to the Management Committee of the Rugby .Union the other'ovcning,.says the " Christchurch I'ress." One applicant stated that a .certain, club's rooms wore too far out of town; "besides," he added, "there are no billiards there." Another young enthusiast, after explaining how lie wished to riso in the "football world,!', stated that if a member wished to get "into 'a team,' ho would havo to knock about'with a cliqvo or bo in tho gang. "Of course," he added, "the captain only picked his friends, good or bad, of which I wa3 not one."
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 186, 1 May 1908, Page 5
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