BARRACKING.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Read your-sub-leader this morning regarding barracking at schools’ foothall match yesterday ; also read Stoddart’s protest. V Think, it applies admirably. This is the barracking he refers to. Presume British public do not make any noise. Quite nice and quiet. Australian barracking is just the same as Christchurch school barracking; not a bit of difference. Notices might be put up prohibiting spectators from speaking, and muzzles might be worn with advantage. Schoolboys watching a match should have masters dancing attendance to look ,to their manners, and -teach them the correct way to enunciate •“ Played indeed, sir!” Players do not like to be cheered on. It hurts. Like to play in deathly silence. Silence makes their blood rise, and stimulates them to great efforts. “Manner im-
provers” and quiet, solitude-loving scribes are necessary intruders; compelled to attend and listen to disgusting cheering; Match couldn’t be played without them.—r 1 am, etc., DUMMY. Christchurch, June 30, 1898.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume C, Issue 11623, 5 July 1898, Page 6
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