And So To Soccer! Another Inquest?
The soccer season opens with lingering traces of an inquest on Britain’s defeat in the world cup series at Rio, and some commentators note that at the moment the new season is “rousing strangely little enthusiasm and excitement.” There is an opinion that nobody is yet quite ready for it, and that it has come round too soon this year for anybody to recover from the last season.
Be that as it may, 1,250,000 people will flock to see the opening 46 League games on Saturday.
With the beginning of the soccer season there also starts the winter indoor game-—pools! It is estimated that 10,000,000 people try to pick the winners each week. Just to pique their curiosity, D,. Brian Kuttner, a lecturer in pure mathematics at Birmingham University, has declared that he holds a key to permutation of the pools, though he has never watched a match or filled in a football coupon. He is to tell his “secret” to the British Association next month. He will have a large unseen audience--X,e-cial N.Z.P.A. Correspondent.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 19 August 1950, Page 5
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