"NOT WORLD-BEATERS"
— Press Assooiation.)
Springboks' Message exrecting hard games
(By Teleeraph-
AUOKLAND, Last Night. In a special message to the New Zealand Herald sent by radio-telegram from the Wanganella on the eve of the opening of the Springboks' New Zealand tour, the manager of the team, Mr. P. Day, said: "We are looking forward with the keenest interest to your beautiful country, and all of us wfere very much interested in our first glimpse of the northern coast this afternoon. We are delighted to reach New Zealand after having had hard games in Australia. "We are not the world-beaters that Australia makes us out to be. We are a team of amateurs^ visiting your country for the purpose of playing friendly games. We realise we are meeting Rugby players of the highest calibre, and we expect .hard games in evory eentre where we shall play. "It is unfortunate that on landing we will have several casualties in our team, but we trust that the changed climate conditions in New Zealand will very quickly remedy the ailmcnts from which some of our cnembers are suf- , f ering, ' '
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 157, 21 July 1937, Page 4
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