BASKETBALL
» .— In a basketball match, Christchurch beat Wellington by 59 points to 12. Outstanding players were Misses Steinmctz, M'Clurg, and Francis (Christ-church) and Misses Duncan andWyalt (Wellington). Miss Armstrong cap'ablv refcreed. The teams were, as "follow :— Cliristchurcn : Misses Francis (captain), M'Clurg-. Steinmetz, Kane. Scott-, Jefferson, Eva 11. Dennehy, and Eobertson. Wellington : Misses Duncan (captain Wyatt, Voley, North, Tolley, Ledger,' Dc;in, Bolions, and Blsckbu'ii Misses Steinmclz (16), M'Clurg (3), and Francis (5) were the principal scorers for the winners. Wellington's points were scored by Misses Duncan (2'i and i Wyatt (2). l ' |
Someone (writes W. 1,. l?I le lps, in benbner s' for March) ought to write an essay on the decay of the toothpick ilio public use of this implement howeve^ common it still may be, damns its manipulator, and justly so; but for centuries the toothpick was the bad<r e of-the gentleman. In Elizabethan days the young swells paraded in St. Paul's Cathedral, London, manipulating the toothpick, as conspicuously as possible, in order to prove that they had dined; and even so late as a century aeo, young men exhibited their gold toothpicks with pnde. Unfashionable it is now, but alas ! not uncommon. I was driven from a hotel at Nice at the point of the toothpick. Ihe French and Russians and Germans in that hotel employed tho instruments as though they were, performing s religious rite.
BASKETBALL
Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 130, 5 June 1925, Page 3
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