LEAGUE
The visiting Qneenland League team meets New Zealand in the second test, at Newtown Park this afternoon. ‘ The Queenslanders have earned the reputation of being great sportsmen, and clean players, and are described as giving a brilliant and sparkling exhibition of tlio League code. This afternoon’s clash should ho a display of open and spectacular football. * * * *
“The life of a politician greatly resembles that of a footballer in the fact that while one half of the crowd is cheering him on, the other half is usually looking for his blood.” Thus Mr J. A. Lee, M.P., while speaking at the welcome smoke social tendered tho visiting Queensland League footballers on Thursday. * * » *
He left the opposition standing. Davidson, the flying Auckland League representative centre three-quarter, in last Wednesday’s Auckland v. Wellington match, demonstrated a turn of speed truly sensational. It' is doubtful if a faster three-quarter than the snowy-head-ed Aucklandor has been seen in action in Wellington during this season. For sheer pace he appears in a class by himself, and could show a clAin pair of heels to the fastest man playing in present Wellington Kugby.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12247, 19 September 1925, Page 17
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187LEAGUE New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12247, 19 September 1925, Page 17
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