HOOTS DROWN CHEERS

NZ Truth, Issue 1189, 13 September 1928, Page 18

HOOTS DROWN CHEERS

Case of When "You Win, but I Get Money"

Tommy BarW .must have felt something like tit-willow m "The Mikado" when the decision was given to him against Johnnie Leckie m Invercargill last week. . "

"THERE was a close connection, m 1 fact the; tit- willow was suffering from: . , . "If you remain callous and obdur- . ate I: .. . -,• Shall perish as he did '- And you 'know why . . ." 1 And Johrinie perished and Tommy knew why.. ' Biit neither Johnnie, rior Tommy, finished up;the song by : proclaiming: : .": ■'. . '' \' ■' •'■■ '• /■■■■ t . ■■• • "Though ;I- ..probably.'* shall hot exclaim as I . die', .•■".' . Oh!' v ."\yiilpw, tit-willow, titwillpw!" : But onceTtiiej bout was over it is a good guarantee that Johnnie and manager 'Archie went back a bit and started t6y>,warble, probably a good deal put of /.tune: ; "We've < ; g,6t • you .on the list, 'SonnyHTall;; ' r . You'll, ne-vfer .be missed, , 'Sonny' .;-. TaiiC";;;i; ; ;; ; v:/ . <.;^ '..;,..-";;!,.,..■ ■/. ■ There hevei? lived m the opera a more .humane Mikado, 'but, m this land ,6f. freeaom, the proletariat thinks of only a fdr, go. ■ • '■■■:■■:■' They did not get it' the other night m the. city-, that has wide streets-^-and

Wallacetown as a suburb. And a nice little suburb "ours is!" Leckie won so easily ' that he met himself coming home when he was getting up the. nes;t, morning, but it is human to err. The judges erred— and then . erred again; that is, they were m doubt. , ' The referee did not err m one direction— hej thought of he who hesitates is .lost^r-then . voted for Barber, and was lost. ... Quite a lot of the onlookers were going home, but when they heard, and digested, what had been done they stopped, and vref used to go home. Home was never like this— and you can't hoot at home. ;; " To Barber goes. ;the' first official credit of putting ; -.'a' black mark m Leckie's record book— but looked at m the right light tha^s''hpthing : ''tall. One each is now .thfe position and the association that' can pitt them on again will have spmething to «crow over. i. ■ :; ' Leckie is willing and Barber will-«-or should — have no qualms of picking . up another few that will help : to pay the boat trip home. -.'■;•, ...