EMBRYO DOCTORS TAKE PART IN RUGBY RAG.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17837, 4 May 1926, Page 12

EMBRYO DOCTORS TAKE PART IN RUGBY RAG.

HONOURS EASY IN BATTLE OF LUNG POWER.

LONDON. March 15. When, in a few years’ time, ' your doctor attends you with “that bedside fanner” for ' which the profession is famous, it will disturb the gravity of the situation—and possibly your own— V ° U rerner *iber to have seen him at Kichmond yesterday. Doctors in embryo—medical students - -were there in clamant force • for the , na I f of the Hospitals’ Rugby Cup, and Guy’s were fighting St Thomas’s. It was an occasion for the student to display his taste in costume and noise, with an utter disregard for his larynx; and it is quite probable that many of them acquired the first essential for the bedside manner” by permanently injuring their vocal chords and reducing their voices to a whisper. After standing next one with a stentorian note (writes a representative of 1 he Daily Chronicle”) for half an hour, my hearing was temporarily impaired; and anv stranger to the species might be forgiven for carrying away an impression that a hospital training dc : velops homicidal instincts in the young. Kiil him; oh, kill him!” bawled out 1,1 appealing accents, with the regu-larity--and almost the reverberation—•>f a minute gun, merely indicates, however. the desire of the supporter for his team to pull down the opponent with the ball. -

A considerable section of the students affected a~ fancy costume that created the illusion of November 5 having strayed put of place in the calendar; and. as they had taken the precaution of labeilihg themselves “Guy's,” and their vocal fireworks were iridescent there was a certain appropriateness in them “setting alight” the sober thoroughfares of the metropolis which they honoured with their presence. There was, only conflict between the rival groups. A wag had mounted to the score-board and manipulated numbers and letters to show that St Thomas's had won by 90 points to nil: but a few minutes passed before Guy’s stormed the structure and made their favourites win by 99 points. Both sides were optimists. The margin separating the teams at the end was a goal (5 points) to nil in favour of St Thomas's.