RUGBY
PIRATES’ CLUB THE ANNUAL MEETING. The annual tats mg of members of the Pirates’ Ru-joy Football Club will be held this evening in the Jockey Club rooms. Alem’.’ers arid intending members are urged to attend. “SOFT” IMPEACHMENT VIGOROUS DENIAL SYDNEY OPINION AND MR BAKER Received March 20, 7.5 p.m. SYDNEY, March 20. Commenting on Mr Baker’s statement at Auckland that there were too many soft footballers playing Rugby to-day, Mr E. N. Greaterex says: "Without prejudice I would like to ask Mr Baker if he would have made the same statements had New Zealand come out on top after the Tests against the Springboks last season. Mr Baker’s remarks were not new. I’ll wager it was said by former footballers of 1900 about the footballers of 1890, and by the old-timers of 1890 about the players of 1880." The opinions of other former internationals and referees support Mr Greaterex, but Mr Miller, secretary of the New South Wales Rugby League, said there was something in Mr Baker’s comment. Players at present did not concentrate on the game as much as they did in the past.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 67, 21 March 1938, Page 4
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