WAS AN OFFER MADE?
"AtiL PURE*FICTION" What dEThappen. . (By Telegßiph.—Press Association Copyright.) SYDNEY, This Day. ■ Mr. I/Arkin, Secretary of the Rugby ] League* in an interview, declared that i the League's alleged offer to members of the New Zealand Rugby Union team was alj. pure fiction. The League's executive.' never considered the matter in any s/hape or form. What happened was t'ha,t some New Zealanders saw him and discussed playing with League clubs, "but( how the interview* could be con6tru/>d into an offer of £3OOO is more thatfi anyone can imagine, no matter how elas/tic one's capacity for thinking things. Thdn ae to the statement that the League is short of players, I offer to produce • thirteen who will take on a visiting New Zealand fifteen, the proceeds to be devoted to charity."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 23, 27 July 1914, Page 4
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132WAS AN OFFER MADE? Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 23, 27 July 1914, Page 4
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