CLOSE FOOTBALL GAME
PREMATURE ENDING - PIEMAN AND HIS BELL As full-time was approaching in .the Rugby League football match at Toowoomba, Queensland, recently, and Newtown was striving desperately to wipe out the two points lead held by , Suburbs, a bell rang, the referee bleff his whistle, and the teams left the field,* Then it was found that the bell was not rung by the timekeepers, but by the proprietor of a piecart, who was selling his wares. As the referee had declared the game over, he would not allow it to continue after the mistake was discovered. was understood that Newtown team i & tended to lodge a protest.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22142, 22 June 1935, Page 10
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108CLOSE FOOTBALL GAME New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22142, 22 June 1935, Page 10
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