AUSTRALIAN SPORTS
In a letter to John Kierhan, the American writer, on sports, a corresponde-1 praises Australian gdmes. The letter of the correspondent, which was published in the "New York Telegram," included the following comments:—"The best hockey in the world, from a spectator's viewpoint, is being played in Australia. The teamel have five men on a side. The one-man defence makes for large scores and has effectively eliminated tie games. The offside rule prevails only in the defence zone, which is 20ffc out from the net at either end of the rink. This has cut down the whistling solo of the referee to a tolerable point. In the United States the hockey referee constitutes* himself s. spectacle; in Australia he is impatiently tolerated as a mild nuisance. _ Australia has been a pioneering agency in sport for > a century. The thoroughbred Turf owes its first mechanical starting apparatus, the Maxwell gate, to "Down Yonder.' It was Young Griffo who invented the left hook in boxing, and the Commonwealth gave the sliding seat to rowing. All these improvements! have been, or are being, spread all over the world." -
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 12, 14 July 1931, Page 13
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186AUSTRALIAN SPORTS Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 12, 14 July 1931, Page 13
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