GOT TOO FAT

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 91, 8 July 1927, Page 10

GOT TOO FAT

THE FOAMING TANKARD Billie Gillespie, the captain of Sheffield United, knows a whole heap of football yarns, some true, some otherwise (says a London writer). One of the true stories he is fond of relating concerns Foulkes, the famous goalkeeper of olden days, in whose time footballers often “trained” at the local tavern and practised with a policeman’s helmet. Foulkes was a mountain of a man, and the time came when it was decided that he was really getting too stout. So arrangements were made for him to join a stone-breaking gang on the roads. But Foulkes got stouter than ever, and wonderment increased. A man was sent out to investigate, and came back with this report: "The foreman says he is the finest stone-breaker ever known. He is earning 2s an hour at it, and spending it on engaging a boy to keep up a supply of beer from the inn a mile away.”