A LOUD THUNDERCLAP

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23020, 23 April 1938, Page 9 (Supplement)

A LOUD THUNDERCLAP

In St. Martin's Church at York the vicar looked smilingly at the people who had crowded it for the football service. Said he: Those who would like to congratulate the York City team on 1 its success can say " Aye " with a thunderclap of sound. Ave! came from Yorkshire throats with a sound to shake the windows of the old church, which had probably not hoard the like since the walls were built 800 years ago. . And why not? The church is the abode of rejoicing, the very place where the common joys of everyday life should bo shared; and on the Sunday of the football service all Yorkshire was in high fettle. York City, a hutnble little football team in the third division of the English Soccer League, had won its way into the sixth round of the Association Cup by beating Middlesborough, a first division eleven. Little David had beaten Goliath. It was cause enough for shouting. " Aye " with a thunderclap of sound; and every parson would agree with the parson of St. Martin's who encouraged it. Even the bishops would not demur; | for one of thorn, the Bishop of Whitby, had joined with the vicar of St. Martin's in cheering his side when the game was being played.