A TRUE SPORT.
There are occasions, though rare, when a referee appeals to a player regarding the success or failure of a kick at goal, the player, of course, beiiiß near the goal-posts at the time and the lineumpires being out of place, perha-ps unable to get up to the goal-posts before the kick is taken. Cases have come under notice indicating that the players show a fine spoi-ting spirit. One was supplied by a club secretary this week as follows: —"Sportsmanship is not yet dead, as the following incident in the Old Boys-Selwyn junior match will show. Old Boys were awarded a. free-kick. Mansfield essayed the kick at goal. Neither of the line-umpires was in position to give a. decision, so the referee appealed to one of the Selwyn throequarters, who said the ball went over the bar. A goal was therefore awarded. The temptation is there to reply: 'Did not notice." That three-quarter is a true sport!" 31-urphy, the Marist full-back, is known to have acted similarly in a match last season..
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Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 141, 17 June 1922, Page 12
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174A TRUE SPORT. Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 141, 17 June 1922, Page 12
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