DRAWING THE LONG BOW.

Wairarapa Age, 17 December 1924, Page 4

DRAWING THE LONG BOW.

It has taken a long time for some people to realise the stupidity of the fantastic stories that have been current as to offers supposed to have been made to the All Blacks to join Northern Union clubs m Great Britain. That some of them will appear attractive propositions to the managers of the professional clubs in England goes without saying, and it is quite likely that some of them, like their predecessors in 1905, will end up with engagements in Northern Union clubs. But the figures quoted are ridiculous. As the * 1 Athletic News” evep £lOOO has only once been paid for the transfer of a player, whereas £l5OO is said to have been offered to Nepia, who cannot even play the Northern Union game and has only put in two or three months of the two years that is necessary to qualify to join any of the clubs. The subject in any case is an unsavoury one. Rugby in New Zealand is an amateur game, and it is distasteful to of our young men beiAg bought over as professionals in any game at all.