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A Pocket Guide to Australia

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Title	A Pocket Guide to Australia
Rights	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/
Provenance	Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library
Type	Text
Language	English
Relation-Is Part Of	USS LST 325 Memorial Museum Collection
Identifier	122 A Pocket Guide to Austrailia
Subject	Navy Crewmen -- United States.
AudienceMediator	Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library
Description	A guide to Australia saved by a Navel crewman.
Contributors	Funding provided by an Institute of Museum and Library Services grant, administered by the Indiana State Library
Format	Full view: 400 ppi jpg 2000 ; Archived: 400 ppi tif;
Local Item ID	2012.004.1
Coverage	1940-1949

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tralian Rules Football, which is rough, tough, and exciting. There are a lot of rules—the referee carries a rule book the size of an ordinary Webster's Dictionary. Unlike cricket, which is a polite game, Australian Rules Football creates a desire on the part of the crowd to tear someone apart, usually the referee—some parks have runways covered over, so the referee can escape more or less intact, after the game is over. The crowd is apt to yell "Wake up melon head" or some such pleasantry at the umpire, but they don't think it good sportsmanship to heckle the teams. Australian soldiers play it at every chance. In one camp the boys used Bren gun carriers to clear a field to play on and that afternoon 500 out of an outfit of 700 got into a game. Yes, and the Australians play baseball too. We think we have a monopoly on the game, but the first American units found out differently after being walloped by Australian teams. Before the Americans arrived not many Australians turned out to watch a baseball game—it was primarily a way for cricketers to keep in shape during the off-season. Now crowds of 10,000 turn out to see Australian and American service teams play—and they're getting into the spirit of our national game by yelling "Slay the bloke" when the umpire pulls a boner. If you're good at sports you'll probably be more popular in Australia than by being good at anything else. One 27

A Pocket Guide to Australia

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