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The Rugby League news

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N 796.33309944 RUG
Created/Published
Sydney : N.S.W. Rugby Football League, 1920-1973
Issue
Vol. 3 No. 17 (August 5, 1922)
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16
Notes
Text cut on pages 8, 9 due to tight binding.
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Text cut on pages 8, 9 due to tight binding.
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The Rugby League  

News.  

Journal devoted to the interests of Rugby League Football, and containing gfe  

only authorised List of Names Numbers, Colors end Positions of Players*  

ftaMtehed fey the H.S.W. Bagby Jooibsll League ae their O&ee, 161 Phillip Street, Sydasy, M.&W,  

Vol. No. 17  

(COPYRIGHT)  

SYDNEY, AUGUST sth, 1922  

Price— Tii re epe«»e»  

Tom McMahon  

When the League first separated  

From the Union Rugger game,  

And embraced the "thirteen” system  

And thereby made name,  

sort of happy feeling  

Existed in our ranks—  

It introduced “our” Tom McMahon —  

For which we tend our thanks.  

Now Tom is not player,  

Unless it’s on the whistle;  

His country isn’t England,  

Nor his native flower the thistle;  

He's just big, tall wonder,  

An Australian, if you please,  

The very latest word of all  

In Rugby Referees.  

He's smart, and very active,  

And would have graced the pack  

If he’d have only dropped the “white”  

And donned the Westerns’ “black.”  

But. if we lose “forward,”  

We gain Referee,  

And so, you see, we’re better off  

(So it appears to me).  

For Tom has repel, in every game  

Of note for many years;  

His appearance on. the playing ground  

Is signal for loud’ cheers;  

The small boys all know “Tommy,”  

And respect his every word;  

The players also know him—  

(This remark is not absurd).  

Still the players all adore him  

As the man who knows the game.  

And carries out with rigor  

The rules about the same;  

He’s hard on those who trifle  

Or forget themselves and fight,  

But' very humble servant  

To those who do the right.  

He’s Refereed for every team  

That’s visited our shore —  

The "Englishmen” and “Maoris,”  

“All Blacks,” and many more.  

He’s still the top-notch in the game,  

And will be till he dies  

walking encyclopoedia,  

And compendium likewise.  

He’s up to every trick and turn  

And stops the “dodgers,” quick;  

player has to rise betimes  

To show our Mac trick.  

man of deeds, not w'ords, is he.  

One seldom hears him talk,  

And players who forget themselves  

Are like to take walk.  

So when you go to “footy”  

And wish to see the best,  

First find out who is Referee,  

And let that be the test,  

For Rugger, like lot of things,  

May easily be marred —  

You will not find this happen  

When Tom’s name is on the card.  

So we leave him with his whistle,  

And his white, from head to toe,  

Sure of sterling football,  

Because he makes it so.  

East, or West, North or South,  

In big games or in sma*l,  

Of all the Referees we know,  

“Our Tom’s” the best of all!  

“Wilcha.”  

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