WINNING A MATCH.
OLD KAIAPOI EPISODE. The manner in which the schoolboys of Kaiapoi won a football match in the early days was described by a speaker at a reunion dinner in connection with tho school jubilee last Saturday night. He said that the Kaiapoi team were to meet the Normal school team, who averaged about one stone heavier than the Kaiapoi boys. At the outset, things looked black for tho local lads, so the clever boys of the team resorted to strategy. A messenger was sent for two gallons of ginger beer and a bag of hot scones. At half time, these were offered to the visitors, the local boys refraining from participating in the good things. The effect was not long in coining. A few minutes after the game was resumed the Normal boys commenced to show signs of the strain, and tho result was a large score for the local boys. "It, shows that we had brains in the old days," iidcW the speaker.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18994, 16 April 1925, Page 7
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