A Model Club.
Our checker club's the most successful in tEil land,
And generally victorious — and when it is, We're to our rivals courteous, kind and bland—* We fairly daze them with our kind amenities.
We have no veteran with a great contempt fol} books, And our champion is no wiser than he's thought to be; While the match captain is as canny as ha looks, And places men exactly where they ought tg be.
When .we're leading in a team-match, our mea
all move Without finessing; with generous rapidity, And if adjudication in our favour prove We accept it modestly, rarely ,with avidity. We've no expert that ever loses by a slip, Or even wins exactly as he'd projected;
We've no novice ever ready with a tip, Improving old play heretofore rejected. We've no boor who bangs his men down ivitß
a thump,
Nor goads his victim by ironically joking, The man who eagerly huffs a neglected jump,
For we tolerate no member so provoking.
Now, this is so harmonious and so rare a clubg That I dare not state exactly where it is,
Or how eagerly each member pays his sub.; Where jealousy's the rarest of all rarities. — J. H., in Leeds Mercury.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2402, 15 March 1900, Page 52
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205A Model Club. Otago Witness, Issue 2402, 15 March 1900, Page 52
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