WOULD LOSE THEIR GATE.
The Slushton Football Club had a very unenviable record of defeats, and after one match, in which they were defeated by —O, a disgusted patron spoke up pretty plainly to one of the committee members. . “You deserve to lose I” he ejaculated. “Look at Jim! He jumps about like a pea on a hot shovel, and knows as much about football as a cat about mathematics.” v .. “Ah!” responded the committee-man. “And you knownothing about the management of a football club. Jim isn’t a crack player, but he has more relatives than have the rest of the team put together. Lose Jim, and bang goes half the gate!”
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New Zealand Tablet, 3 June 1920, Page 45
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112WOULD LOSE THEIR GATE. New Zealand Tablet, 3 June 1920, Page 45
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