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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 216, 8 June 1926, Page 5

That New Zealanders, great lovers of football as they arc, do not know all there is to know about “barracking,” was demonstrated the other Saturday at Carlaw Park (reports the Auckland “Star”), when an enthusiastic "fan,” who freely informed all and sundry that he "hailed from California,” showed his interest in the match by “rooting” in the approved American fashion. Joining the “bleachers” on the terrace, lie evinced a lively interest in the City-Richmond match, and woke the echoes with his “Rah! Rah! Atta boy!” when a particular piece of play pleased him. Becoming keyed up tn an intetcstiug scrimmage which the referee dissolved, in tones of excited enthusiasm he insisted that the crowd should “mob the gol-darned referee”; and when a fleet half-back got away with the ball the bystanders were electrified with stentorian injunctions to “Kill him! Kill him!” Players who distinguished themselves were praised with the words: “Ob, you baby!” and “That’s the pepper!” A forward who initiated a fine advance was instructed to “Stay witli ’em, old kid!” while when the players were piled in a melee, above the inarticulate roar of the crowd rose the stranger’s sarcastic pica: “Careful, now—don’t hurt him I” The visitor was delighted with his twentyfive cents worth of football, which included two matches, and. his pleasure was further intensified by the fact that he backed the winning team for “half a dollar,” to which desirable result his enthusiastic “ro'.’ing” no doubt contributed. The bystanders were unanimous in tbeir appreciation of his attempts to enA. rge the barracker’s vocabulary..