FOOTBALL.
LEAGUE TEAM DEFEATED
Press Association-By Telegraph-Copyright LONDON, Jan. 20.
• Wigan defeated the Australian League team by two goals and four tries to two tries; ALLEGED PROFESSIONALISM. THE WALLABIES. ' LONDON, Jan.'2o. ; Mr C. Wray Palliser, in aletter to the newspapers, protests against the Scottish Union's action as unsportsmanlike, in seizing upon a- frail excuse to make England the scapegoat for the presumed evil doings of tlie New Zealanders. He declares 'it ridiculous to term an allowance of 3s a. day as a wage for broken time.
'■■ The "Times," in summing up the Wallabies' tours, says that though inferior to the New Zeal ana and South African combinations, they have a very good record. At their best they were a fine, if not a.greateside.•-■■■•■ ,
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13810, 22 January 1909, Page 5
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