Value of Rugby Football
ANTIDOTE FOR HABITS OF LAZINESS. United Press Association.—-By Electric Telegraph.- —Copyright. LONDON, Jan. 3. At a dinner to the English and South African Rugby Test teams, Mr Walter Pearce, president of the Rugby union, expressed the opinion that the South Africans had demonstrated the value and necessity of greater physical fitness and he hoped that the lesson would be remembered. Rugby was a Spartan game—not a mere spectacle. It was the be.t antidote for the growing habit of Tiding afid. sitting about,
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6748, 5 January 1932, Page 8
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86Value of Rugby Football Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6748, 5 January 1932, Page 8
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