Book of football

THE THREE TOURS
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one of them did a thing that might not be fair to the
rest of the team. There was, too, " Boxer " Millar,
a champion walker, and, I should say, not a bad
fighter, as during the Boer War he was still helping
to keep the flag flying though wounded in five places 1
The perils of the " loose head " in the Welsh match,
or of a forward rush at Glasgow, cannot have made
such an one as this even blink. I wish we could see
them all again, but 'tis small use howling for the moon.
There is, however, one thing certain, and that is, that
though most of us feel that for the time being the
exchange of tours with New Zealand, Australia, and
South Africa had better cease, we would gladly make
an exception in favour of Springbok II.,—especially if
the side were under the aegis of such as Roos, Carden,
and Carolin.
(iii) THE AUSTRALIAN TOUR
After the first match of the Australian team of
igo8—agog at Devonport, in September, one knew in-
stinctively that the tour was not going to be a repetition
of the athletic and scientific feast of igo5—igo6, or of
the social and sporting treat of zgo6—igo7. Let me
explain at once that of the Australians playing on
that tour, the following were some eight or nine months
after leaving England expelled from the Metropolitan
Rugby Union of New South Wales, owing to acts of
professionalism — C. Russell, T. J. Barnett, P. A.
M`Cue, A. B. Burge, P. H. Burge, C. H. M'Xivatt,
A. J. M`Cabe, E. Mandible, R. R. Craig, and J. Hickey.
Others may or may not have gone over to the Northern
Union since then.
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