POEM COMPETITION

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 3176, 13 December 1927, Page 3

POEM COMPETITION

SPRINGSTON GYMKHANA

PUBLIC TO BE JUDGES,

The Springston Gymkhana Committee's poem competition has brought entries from several district rhymsters, whose verses are printed hereunder. The public is to judge the merits of the poems, and the entry gaining the highest number of votes, collected at the Gymkhana, will secure a prize for its author. The entries appearing in this column should be carefully studied, and their merits weighed, in order that voters may arrive at a well considered decision. I. Springston sports are out in earnest, to provide a day for all. They are making every effort, even for the children small, Leaving nothing to be wished for, by athletes or others— Pleasure for the young folk, and amusement for their mothers. Such a varied programme's bound to bring a record number out, All who can will surely gather from the districts round about. Do not let your worries stop you, you'll forget them once you're there. And be sure and bring the grannies to see the "fun of the fair." If you have not been to Springston, well, the crowd will show the way. On this coming anniversary, of our pil--wgrims' landing day. 11. A stranger in Springston on sixteenth December Will see the best picnic he'll ever remember, And thousands of people and motor cars roaring At the gate of the sports ground ad- . mission imploring. A programme so varied with frolic and sport, A greasy pig chase and a solemn mock court, Perspiring officials all anxious to please With dozens of helpers as busy as bees. The stranger in Springston on sixteenth December Will have the best time he will ever remember, I Brass bands gaily playing, the trumpet's loud blare, Invite you to join them and banish dull care. 111. They're shouting so loud With voices endowed With the power of a piercing fog horn, That their 's is the latest, The best, and the greatest Of sports since the county was born.

They make such a fuss In showing to us The great entertainment in store, That see it I must To save me from just Being plunged in regret evermore. IV. The people of Springston : Know how to put things on, And give them a high-sounding name; This year they have sports, Including all sorts, A "Gymkhana" that's bringing them fame. The people of Springston Must all had their "thinks" on When planning to run such a show; To see such a treat And such novelties meet Eight round the wide world I would go

V. To Springston Gymkhana I'm certainly going, Where wonderful things they'll be doing and showing, And if it be wet, or nor'westers are blowing, I'll go if it's fine, and I'll go if it's snowing. When again on this earth such a treat will be showing There's no one can tell us, there's simply no knowing. So, to the Gymkhana great crowds will be going, Where '' Herald'' his trumpet so loudly is blowing. No farmer that day will his hay crop be mowing, Be shearing his sheep, or his turnips be sowing, Because his fine baby the wife will be showing, And praise on the baby we'll all be bestowing.