FOOTBALL.
TO TBE EDITOR. ( Sir.—Permit ma as a citizen of New Plymouth to thank you heartily for the f?ar!ess expression of opinion contained in your loading article of 3ist Miy o'r> the dea-dlinoss of football. It is timo , that our footballers should know tha* from the spectator's poinh of view the game has degenerated, and has now become a disgusting exhibition of savage brutality, destitute alike of manliness and skill. It is now supported and encouraged chieflv by the p.marfc betting so 1 ; and followed up bv a| pack of the racecourse variety, the vultures that ff er'i uf on the putrid carcase; of our na f ioail sports - lam, e'c., ; | Old Boy.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 114, 4 June 1901, Page 2
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