SPORTING.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10966, 5 January 1912, Page 4

SPORTING.

THE AUSTRALIAN BARRACKER'

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

(Pee Press Association.)

Received-January 5, at 11.15 a.m. : : . London, January. 4. /' ; Writing to the Even ing News, Hobjjs strongly protests against tlie barraiqk'iiijg by'sm'all coteries, especially duringthe' New South. Wales match'. ''This'."bad.; taste," lie says, "lias'inade the'EriglMimen feel "great cohtempt for a,portion pf the' Australian crowd, but genuine, sportsmen" have don© much to make us. comfortable. Tlie grpat- sympathy ihpwn Mr Warner makes us. warmhearted towards the Australians, and we forget the petty annoyances."