"A RULE IS A RULE"
A correspondent writes:—"Can we never be sportsmen? I am led to ask this question after reading 'Enthusiast's' letter in your issue of 24th Inst. A rule is a rule, and surely it is meant to be observed. Yet whenever a rule does not happen to suit us at the moment there is a loud outcry to . have it ignored or altered to suit our bookfor the occasion. What must our visitors or our local Soccer friends think of us? Truly, we are the spoilt children of the English Rugby Union, and cry as such. Shall we never grow up and (signed) 'Play the Game'?" (It was evident that-tho suggestion by "Enthuiast was made with the idea of "suiting all countries in which the game is played, and it was certainly not made "to suit New Zealand particularly.—"Droplock. )
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 123, 27 May 1930, Page 11
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