The Nervous Strain

NZ Truth, Issue 1080, 12 August 1926, Page 14

The Nervous Strain

(From "Truth's" Hastings Representative.) CINOE the Shield has rested m Bay" more than one record has gone west. 7 Yet another "match" recprcLyife to be added this time per medium of our worthy selector. /M : orman McKenzie. Norman's instructions at Manawatu last Saturday were to win, but, at the same time, hut^men had not to lake matters too seriously on account of ttiafbig game the following weekend. . / ' With three minutes to go t/ie score stood at 14 to 11 against the Bay. It was then t/hat the aforesaid "match" record occurred. • . Norman could see defeat staring him m the face and, to steady his nerves, called upoy. My Lady Nicotine. Charging his "gun," hes)ulled a slide box of matches out . to complete the operation ar#i, without once getting a draw, struck the whole of that bqjx of matches, one after the other. When the score was 14jall he did not want a smoke. A little birdie w.hispears that McKenzie included that box of vestas m his exes. ' ■imiMiiiiiitiiiiiiiiimiMini»iiniii>iiii»iiiiMi»itiMiiiiniiMti«iiiitiiniiiiMiitiiiiiiiifiiii"/«|iiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiniiiimiiniiintiiintitintmitiimtimimiiinmiiii """""""" ! "" l """""""" 1 """"!!!"""!!!" 1 !!!!] l ' ilinmimil mi iiiiiiiiiilin iiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiio»iiiiiiiiiniiiinn tmmimimiiimimimiimmmmmiimiiiiiimuimiiiiiimimiimiiimiimiirammni