KEEPING THEM FIT
The big head of football in Hawke’s Bay. X. A. McKenzie. All Black Rugby selector, bids fair to become something of the kind also in athletics. He pioneered the revival of the sport in the province of fat sheep and golden fleeces by forming a strong amateur club in Napier last year. Of the body he is now the leading light, while he also acts as handicapper to half a dozen other country clubs in the district. Whenever a country meeting comes round he enters a strong Napier team and acts as its manager, counsel and friend, in addition to lending a helping hand with the officials on the spot. shrewd man. Norman McKenzie interests his footballers as much as possible in the athletic game, with a
view to keeping them fit in the off season. Bert Grenside, the All Black winger, and Jackie Blake, former All Black centre threequarter, are among the prominent footballers appearing on the track in Hawke’s Bay.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 245, 6 January 1928, Page 10
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165KEEPING THEM FIT Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 245, 6 January 1928, Page 10
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