"KICKING AND BITING."

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13138, 26 July 1913, Page 9

" KICKING AND BITING."

FEATURES OF GERMAN FOOTBALL. The Sunderland football team has returned home, and the players are now relating some of their experiences. On the whole, it was a successful und enjoyable trip (says the Newcastle Chronicle), "though there was a little f eling shown during the games in Germany. None of the players speaks very well of Germany. "In Germany," said Thomson, "charging is not allowed, but they can kick you up into the air and bite you when you are coming down ; that is German football. Every time our boys gave a good English charge we were ordered off, but we didn't go. The next English team that goes to Hamburg ought to be fitted up with armor suits." Regarding the ordering off of players in the Hamburg match, Thomson said Richardson was ordered off, and he went off, and Buchan walked off because he thought he would be safer in the dressing-room than on the "battle-field." "We had a rough time of it coming off the field," said Thomson, "people trying to trip us up with walking-sticks, ana kicking at us. One tripped Low twice, and Low let out with a Jack Johnson punch, and that, man won't forget the day Sunderland played at Hamburg in a aurry."