Dir Maoris Change Men At Half-time ?
Received Priday, 11.27 p.m. SYDNEY, August 20. In a special article dealing with the, visit of the New Zealand Maoris' Rugb.y TJpio.n. team to Australia next year the * Sydney Sun's sporting writer (E. W. K.ann) saya: "New Sputh Wales representatives who have opposed Maori teams have found i ft hard to distinguish betweep their , colourful riyals. Sonie ass^rt that the Maoris took advantage of this to switc-h players in a matcn and bring : on "fresh men in the second half. "'The sto.ry goes that the. Maoris . were all put wi.der a shoy/er at the iiiterval and, a? all came out looking fresh.; TW& tdade it practically impossihle to tell whethpr a new player ; had b.een brought in. ' 'After one piatch between New South Wales and the Maons in 1922 a New South Wales centre said to his, coach: XI am Tretty sure one of ' the players opposite me in the second , half did not play in the first half! ' " T-he coach replied: 'They had five new players in, the second balf!' " Mr. Kanh Says the Maoris are the most colqurful and spectacular foot- : ballers in th'e world, and n° one 1 plays in a more lighthearted and - carefree spirit.
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Chronicle (Levin), 21 August 1948, Page 4
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205Dir Maoris Change Men At Half-time ? Chronicle (Levin), 21 August 1948, Page 4
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