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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18316, 5 August 1921, Page 9

m Undcf some curious hallucinations,' born probably of the ]o'M\ar remarks made by (several speakers ut the reception to the Springboks here last week, eouplod with the (juyyustion that another match might be pliijerl here (where the gates are biggest), the Wairarapa Daily Times has fired the following Parthian shot:— "Wellington is spparently out to make itself ridiculous : ji the eyes of the people of the dominion. Because of the blow to Wellington's vanity through thti sound thrashing the Springboks administored to the Wellington football fifteen la;t Saturday, there has sprung up a general desire in Wellington for a return match with the Springboks a* the end of tho latter's tour of Kew Zealand. To make such a request is to offer an insult to the visitors, and to suggest that the win was a fluky one, or obtained by some underhand means. Wellington's conceit has been touched. Before the match with the Springboks the Wellington peacocks strutted the streets of Wellington with an air of vainness equalled only by the sabre-rattling Huns of pre-war days. Wellington has been vanquished, but its concoit will not allow it t« accept its defeat in the spirit of" sportsmen. Taranaki. Wanganui, or Wairarapa are not likely to display such unsportsmanlike tactics as to suggest that if they had another game each with the Springboks they could beat them. No voice comes from Taranaki suggesting that the latter should have beaten the Springboks. It is to be hoped that the New Zealand Kugby Union will administer a severe rebuke to Wellington for the insult it has offered the visitors."