MR P. DAY FAREWELLED

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 210, 21 September 1937, Page 8

MR P. DAY FAREWELLED

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The Springboks' Manager "MAY BETTER TEAM WIN"

(By l'elegraph—

AUCKLAND, Last Night. After the maifi body of the All Blacks had arrived at Auckland this morning to go into training at Takapuna for the final Tes't, they participated in a pleasing gesture when they foregathered at the Hotel Cargen to farewell 3Ir Percy Day, manager of the Springboks. 3fr Arthur Baker, chairman of the Auckland union, said that he had been asked by tlie New Zealand Rugby. Union to wisfi 3Ir Day a safe and pleasant return to his own country. Mr J. T. Burrotvs, who was a member of the 1928 All Blacks in South Africa and is manager of the final Test team, spoke of the happy relations between the players of both sides and the personal regard of tfie All Blacks for Mr Day. 31r W. J. Wallace, who scored 367 points for New Zealand between 1903 and 1908, presented 31r Day with a rug on behalf of the New Zealand union to the accompaniment of musical honours. 31r Day, in replying, said that he had greatly enjoyed his visit to this country, whose victorious Army team in Britain he had had the pleasure oi' piloting through South Africa in 1919. Speaking of the final Test^ his parting wisli was: "May it be played in the real spirit of the game, and may tlie better team win."