The Wrong Man.
A good story is told about an interviewer who got hold of the wrong man, with amusing results. An Australian liner arrived at an American port, with a well-known Antipodean divine and the proprietor of a big Australian hotel. By an accident of introduction the pressman mistook the hotelkeeper for the divine, and forthwith proceeded to interview him. Next morning the clergyman was horrified at finding an interview in which lie figured as a gentleman handicapped with distinctly festive and sportive predilections. What he read was that after he had partaken *of several *’ Scotch highballs” (whisky and soda), and enjoyed some excellent cigars, he talked fluently and picturesquely of the Mell»oiirne Cup race, the coming fight between Bob Fitzsimmons and “ Pompadour Jim,” and other matters concerning the world of sport.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIX, Issue 1, 1 January 1913, Page 12
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133The Wrong Man. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIX, Issue 1, 1 January 1913, Page 12
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