COMMENT BY CAPTAINS
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(By TelegraDh-
DUNEDIN," Last Night. Praise for the disulav of Otago in
the early stages of the first spell was expressed by Craven, the Springbok skipper. "If Otago had finished as strongly as it started," he said, "it would have been a very close game. In the first quarier of an hour the team performed brilliantly, backs and forwards linlring up iu uncanny manner." "Thougk Otago was cortainly overwhclmed it playcd as well as it was allowed to," commcnted Simon, the Otago captain. "Tho Springboks are a grand side and their combination and understanding is splendid. They were worthy opponents and throughout piayed in a keen and sporting manner." The attendauce was officially estimated at 28,000. The visitors left by train lo-pight eu route for Napier
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 203, 13 September 1937, Page 9
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