SOCCER PROBLEM
FIELD ON MOUNTAINSIDE [by telegraph OWN correspondent] CHRISTCHURCH. Saturday Explanation of the unusual item of .expenditure of os for ball boys at the inter-district final for the Chatham Cup between Western (Christchurch) and Thistle (Millerton) which was played at Millerton, caused some amusement to members of the management com-r mittce of the Canterbury Football Association. The field at Millerton was on a mountainside, it was stated. If the ball went off the field at one end it would bounce down a three-mile truck-line from the mine through tunnels down to Granity. If it went off on one side it would bounce over hill and dale down to Granity. On the other side it would bounce down to either Millerton or Granity. There remained only one end which could safely bound * the field. It was therefore necessary to employ the services of an unusually large number of ball boys, who were paid on the basis of 3d for every ball they prevented going "down to Granity."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23732, 12 August 1940, Page 6
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