NOT REALLY TALL :

What Knots, Volume 3, Issue 5, 31 December 1945, Page 6

NOT REALLY TALL :

Some years ago I was pic led to play for Ashton Vanilla in their Cup final with Snudderswood Untidy. As I ms only new from the nursery I was not considered a good, player, but I was keen and wished to make a name for myself,.if possible. Up till 10 -minutes from tine it was a pretty even game,, each team’ still having elevon players left on the field. Things began to brighten up. I took a pass from the Outside Left on my .head went down the right wing with the ball bouncing- on my head, weaving 1 and dodging opposing gingers until I reached a point 30 yards from the goal. *. Lith only .the Goalkeeper . to beat, 1 dropped, the ball from my heac to the ground, met it with my toe and it went sailing toward the goal, struck the post, span up it end -went along-. 1 the cross bar, came to aarth down the other post with such force that it spun into the goal, -went clear through the net and out into space, that was the last we say; of. that ball. ... During’ j’und’this year Hiroshima was devastated by somethin;; which critics called an Atomic Bomb. I often wonder if it was caused by that ball coming to earth. o q o _(.’Taranaki) H.E.C-. - "D" IZARD.

"Then I was Signal Officer -.our Regiment I had a setter pup which used, to accompany me every may ’.hen I used to take, the men out for practice in "wigwaggin 11 messages. That Autumn during the hunting season I decided to try my setter on hires-, I was going through a ’ section of underbrush and small pines, with the dog about 600 yards in front. "Suddenly the dog stopped, his tail, straight in the air. Thenlthe-'1 ail began to move,.. it ma's wigwagging. This was the message the faithful ’and- intelligent • dog-sent to me:“KAVA YOU AYY BLC SHOT? 'lk HAT, GET Till HELL OUT Cd’ HERE. THERE’S'A BIG- BRO LT: BEAR JUST AHEAD a D HE’S CUHIYG YOUR './AY. A- 1 - 0. Koines, Sgt. - oOo “ J ucaxCi