FOOTBALL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7544, 20 August 1902, Page 2

FOOTBALL.

Auckland beat Thames on Saturday by 8 points to nil. A writer in the Hutt and Petone Chronicle says : — After the Canterbury match the Auckland people have been intolerable. This is what they say: " New Zealand can beat the world at Rugby, Auckland can beat the rest of New Zealand, ergo, Auckland can beat the world;" also " Auckland backs are the finest in the world. Asher is the finest Auckland back, therefore Asber is the greatest three-quarter in the world — Let us worship Asher 1" And they do. Asher is brilliant, a fast man, hard to bring down — " impossible to bring down," Aucklanders say — and tricky. |

Christchurch Truth says:— Dp New Plymouth way the publicans entertain some curious views on colour. Mr Pibao&a, a member of the Taaranaki rep. football team, was, without a valid reason, refused accommodation by two enlightened bearers of tbo white man's burden and drawers of the white man's beer. As no valid reason for their action was disclosed in the Court that investigated the matter, we presume that they rejected Pihama because his ska was not like theirffl And this thing can happen in a country that sticks out its chest and brags in a loud voice of its Demooraoy and the Brotherhood of Man as if it had invented those interesting cogs in our social mechanism. In America the Southerner expresses an expectorative opinion when he meet? up with, a "nigger," but he makes no „- boastr/of being civilised enough to understand that a man does not use his s&jb-'to think with, or fight with, and work with, or even to feel with. The wonder is that the Taranaki publicans did not conclude that at any rate a Maori's money is as good as a white man's, and when we oonsider that the Maori's loyalty and honour are often greater than those of his white- brother, even when he keeps an hotel,' we are inolined to grow hot ovey Messrs O'Driscpll and Buokthought.