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Otago Witness, Issue 3889, 25 September 1928, Page 14

There is a football competition which, though it is followed with great enthusiasm, gets little publicity. The teams are “Jasper’s Own,” “The Diehards,” “ Professor Moriarty’s Thugs and Gunmen,” and “The Housemaids.” Both players and supporters are at present at Mount Eden gaol (says an exchange). How football was helping to reform criminals was explained by the assistant city missioner, the Rev. Charles Chandler, in an address at the prison. There were present Shakespearean and classical scholars, Biblical students, atheists, and men of all kinds of learning. Some of their conversation was intensely interesting. “If you know the amount of good football has done in prison you would be- surprised,” he said. “ The captain of the * Diehards ’ is an habitual criminal, and he tells me that he has got to work out his burgling like a business man by opening a ledger account. He says he is not a successful business man. Some of the men boast that they have an income of £3OO a year while they are in prison. This is not from their prison' pay, but because the job done before they went in has been invested.”