RUGBY
THE SPECTATOR, AS SELECTOR
G. P. S. Macpherson, the Scottish Rugby three-quarter, in a. recent lecture, gave his views on the “Spectator in, .Rugby.” He considers that the onlookers do not count. Ho went even further in his maintenance of the conservative attitude which marks the Scottish Union and said, that the spectators should not criticise players. He characterises the onlooker who likes to he an amateur selector as the ‘most Miserable being of all.” Emphasis [should never ho laid on individual performance’s, said Macpherson, since there i s not much difference between one) player and another >n senior Rugby'. A northern writer wonders what the supporters of the game in New Zealand would'say to Mncpherson. If a spectator pays, and _ even whojn he doesn’t, nothing is going to prevent him expressing his opinion, of the sport provided.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11827, 7 January 1933, Page 10
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