WARATAHS' GOOD-BYE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 231, 29 September 1928, Page 17

WARATAHS' GOOD-BYE.

DEPARTURE FOR SYDNEY. "NO COMPLAINTS." (By Telegraph.—Press Associati6n.) WELLINGTON, Friday.,, Tlte New South Wales Rugby football team, having completed its torn - of the Dominion, left Wellington this afternoon by the Marania for .Sydney. Mr. C. E. Morgan, manager of the team, said the tour had been much more successful than had been anticipated for a young and inexperienced team. '"They Ttaite surprised the people of New South Wales," he said, "and we are told that the enthusiasm there over the doings of the team has been practically unprecedented in New South Wales. All this talk about bad luck we do not agree with at all. We have no complaint.

'"With regard to penalties and that sort of thing, they are entirely our own fault, but they are not a fine art with the team, as stated in one paj>ei'. They have been brought about through overkeenness and over-eagerness to do well. From our point of view the success of the team will do an immense amount of good to the game in New South Wales."'

Throughout the tour the team had been wonderfully well treated, and Mr. Morgan expressed, on behalf of the team, keen appreciation of all that had been done by the Rugby officials and the public to make the tour so enjoyable.