FOOTBALL.
REG BY IN X EM' ZEALAND
[Australia A N.Z. Cable Association.]
SYDXKY. On. in. linker malinger of the Xew South Wales pugby Lltion team which recently loured Xi-w Zealand, speakingof the experience -ays. Xew Zealand Inoihalleis rank high in esteem as exponents of the Pughy Lnion game, and the people of the Dominion are on the stum- plane as dispensers ol hospitality to visiting loot haliers. II is first impression was the immense grip the game has on the Xew Zealand people, ft was almost ;t fanaticism with them. Kvcrvtvheiv one went in the Xorilt or Sottilt I-lands it was the same. .Such enthusiasm was naturally reflected in keenness on the Ih-id. He was (ptite convineed every Xew Zealander gucon the tield believing he has had the safe keeping of the prestige <.I his country committed to his own individual l itre. It was not so much that they were better foot haliers as that they were so physically our superiors. Baker said he was not a small man hut Infelt unite ordinary among the many gjams he met in the Dominion teams.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 October 1925, Page 4
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184FOOTBALL. Hokitika Guardian, 12 October 1925, Page 4
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