THE RULING PASSION.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1902, 23 April 1913, Page 5

THE RULING PASSION.

When the members of Mr Frank Wild's party, on the Mawson Antarctic Expedition, found a landing on Shackleton Glacier, where the second base was established, they, and Captain Davis, of the naturally had to work Trojans r? «he fetores landed; and when Caption Davis, dragging his weary limbs to well-earned rest at the end of so strenuous a day, wondered how the others were faring, he glanced back through his telescope, expecting to find that they also were overcome by the desire for sleep.

What was his amazement to discover that they were actually playing a game of Rugby football on the glacier. Professor David told this story recently with obvious enjoyment at the farewell to Mr Wild at the Royal Society's rooms. "Yes, we played football while we were there," Mr Wild agreed, "but we did not try it or hockey very often, because of the violence of the wind. The ball used to get down over the glacier on to the floe ice down below; and," he added, naively, '' it was a long way down there to go and fetch it."