APPLE A DAY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 347, 7 May 1928, Page 14

APPLE A DAY

All Blacks at Sea Steady Training Asho^ LATEST NEWS FROM TE ** (THE SUE'S Special Represents* S.S. EURIPIDES, At Sea. It is now two weeks *ine. team left New Zealand’s shor*L ** a week since the Eurip dTT Sydney for Africa, via ports. Strange to say. one/L? ber of the party was heard to7**' plain about these different Ir*’' of call that are being the general opinion is that *2 lucky in having the opportune/* seeing so many interesting P Apart from the sightseeiJ; travel which is being good solid training ashore is dergone by the team, and a: ent stage this is invaluable Before we left New Zealand an u. was common that the All Blacks* play under a serious disadvam^ :t | South Africa, owing to their hT' left New Zealand at the a season, after six months? less, of inactivity from a football / - t: of view: but here I would like tty that I think no team could visv ? better conditions in which to ber* long and strenuous tour. To begin with, the ‘ sea !ee«* “land legs” theories need not ** 2 much attention, since we are forte enough to have the Euripides ** home for the next few weeks, and 15 in the last 14 days of the voyag* 5T Fremantle to Durban, there is S likelihood of any upsetting sea ' ness. This is due mainly to the Js' ordinary manner in which this r*2 ton liner rides through even ately rough seas without more ? the faintest perceptible roll or This was seen and proved on th!* * turn journey from Hobart on day. STRENUOUS MORNING Then there is the actual scheo* training and team work which been mapped out and begun. The n gramme on board ship centres on rEL activities through the day, light cal training at 7.15 a.m. for peri Z half an hour, heavier scrum work IT skipping at 10, and tactics at 10 M £ last, but not least, the team talk 2.30 p.m. Almost as valuable as anything that the team is doing together as team, these team-talks should prove be the lubricant that makes fa \ smoothly running machine. Phvsfc fitness is, after all, only one of the important things that go to make a cessful football combination, and i* - ! to the mixing up of ideas and resuFmental activity that we can look produce that psychological slate of «». ticipation and “awareness” that peck, describe as keenness. While ashore at the various port, the general practice is to split up ixi backs and forwards and play AssocJ tion rules with the Rugby ball forak--20 minutes. Those who have phi«c this game will know how excellent - is as dribbling practice, and how aoc it taxes the wind. Needless to tr there is much rivalry between Inch and forwards, and manv playful Jibe about various players’ abilities as .v cer players. After footwork cobs handling, so we play a passing guct in which kicking the ball is prohibits thus keeping things very much tllr* These morning work-outs are the ver spice of life, especially at the preset stage, because no one has had a season’s football and consequent knockand if perspiration flows freely the* is the cool shower and the warm sc again after it. Especially was this k in Sydney and Hobart, but Melbonrthas been colder. WHAT’S THE GAME? Much amusement is generally give: to the watersiders and local people by the advent of the team. In every plact except Sydney, Australian rules m generally the vogue, so that the Ragt Union game, so far from having bee heard of by most people, is a stracfand weird invention. A small arc of purple capped youths in H.W. even after watching the team's adifferent rendering of the Soccer cofc were prepared to believe that we were an Association team, when suddft they saw large bodies being throwa c; the ground by other large bodies, aai although they are not accustomed • these phases of the Rugby game, they were vastly pleased and somevh mystified withal. “I say, mister, wte do you play?” At Melbourne, where the good tfs Euripides was berthed at Fort X* bourne, some distance from the city was hard to find a suitable ground : training, but we discovered an drome not far along the beach x here, on Friday morning, we Hinkler and his little plane depart ftr Tasmania. Camera devotees were* regretting not having brought tfee* cameras.

cameras. Among those we met was the Ate" trious “Off-side McKenzie.” It quite an experience to players who not seen Mr. McKenzie to do so. * merely because of his large appearance, but because of this recitation of “Off-side Mac” which somehow remained green, and » *- membered in New Zealand to-day-By dint of much "wangling captain of the ship has manage keep her up to time, in spite of extra trip to Hobart, so that w r e ** Australian shores on May 7 orP*T ; haps a day earlier, as was prew*arranged. Relatives and friends of the teaffi have at least one mental P ic v~T . our next few weeks, and th» largely determined by the various cases of apples been given to the team. So at ent times of the day men can hin ; entering and leaving th« ca .. which the fruit is placed. Tn £ should be due for a long sence if the old adage has mu t in it. Once again then. j*seriousness, I can assure -.. orts landers that, barring ac 9* t cap strong and fit team will lana town on May 26.