FOOTBALL AND ROUGH PLAY.
Sir, Allow me a little space, please, to reply to the remarks of . "Peppy" on the All Blacks in Saturday's issue. "Peppy" makes an insinuation "that calls for a straight-out answer and no beating about the bush. What does "Peppy" mean ? This is what he wrote: "Ask any of the old army service team what the code word 'wai wai' meant." "Wai wai" means water, and as a code word in football, I fail to see its meaning or use. Perhaps he thought he was using "wae was," which means foot. From "wae wae" we get foot-foot, and this does not need a great stretch of. imagination to turn to boot-boot. Now, did "Peppy" mean that the team of Diggers were boot artists and that this code word was used to liven up their play when the game was going against them ? New Zealanders can still play a good, clean, hard game, and have not developed as yet to the level of thugs and brawlsmen. D. Hendry.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18887, 9 December 1924, Page 7
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