Rugby Football.

Free Lance, Volume XIV, Issue 695, 25 October 1913, Page 21

Rugby Football.

Mr. T. M. Wiiford,' :M-y> : Hutt, is limping about on ,a stick these .; , days,, the aftermath of on .operation pe r-y formed on His'left foot. .There.is a tale, to. tell in connection- therewith/;-In : Iris • sallet days—"Tom" • is, not; an :old man, ' by; any manner of means, even now»t I however—r-Mr. "YVilford was- a- reprgsenta- , ti.ve footballer, and played in • the three" , quarter line, for Wellington against' the-. New Zealand Native Team in-1888. • Dor-. -7 ing the progress o£ the game, "Tom" and; j : Ihimaira (a burly- Hade's liativa : with a',solid-, 'bump")'.came into. contact , with one .another, the'' old-time" : : jEpuiii y player emerging with ain 'injiired : ' fobtV\ the resalt of "an accidental r kick.' A .lximp., the] size of a pea of whicli notice was-taken at the time, but now,.* after | twenty-five years, it had merSase&V' to the. size of 'a pipe-bowl. And -Dr." Col-,' lins • operated -th e other' day- and ■ removed '. the obstruction. . .There ai;e very few, of us .who; have not some keepsake or Mother," as _ a sequel to pur indulgence in ath-' - . letics. and. "Tom" /Wilford is nuking' hisjust now. . ' • . ' : '