Harvey Fit Again

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 439, 22 August 1928, Page 9

Harvey Fit Again

LOCKS N.Z. SCRUM TO-DAY South West Districts Game MATCH REGARDED AS EASY ONE (United P.A.—By Telegraph Copyright) (Special to Press Association.) Received 9.5 a.m. OUDTSHOORN, Tuesday. HARVEY will turn out for the All Blacks to-morrow in the match against South-Western Districts. Through illness, he has not played since the first game at Capetown.

The New Zealand team will be as follows: Lindsay Rushbrook Carleton Lucas Nicholls McGregor Strang Scrimshaw Ward Snow Stewart Harvey McWilliams Hadley Burrows There is great surprise at the inclusion of Harvey after so much illness, but the match is regarded as an easy one, which probably explains the fact. In any case, the team is very pleased that Harvey is fit enough to take the field again. McGregor is included again after a seven weeks’ forced spell. Hore is suffering from a poisoned thigh, but this is not regarded as serious. The All Blacks to-day went through the famous Cango Caves, 17 miles from Oudtshoorn. The visit to these limestone caves was one of the most interesting and delightful outings of the tour. The drive was in itself worth while, since it led through green fertile valleys reminding the visitors of New Zealand again. Once arrived at the caves, the paity changed into business-like football togs and explored their wonders, which are really fine examples of stalactite and stalagmite formation. The caves have been lighted for a great distance with hue and red bulbs, throwing a soft light on the walls and roofs of the various chambers. GOOD ATTACKING SIDE HARVEY AND McGREGOR AGAIN FIT BOTH WILL BE TRIERS Against South Western Districts at Oudtshoorn to-day the All Blacks apparently axe not expecting very great opposition, and the opportunity has been taken to rest the majority of the players who took part in the last test. Although only a second team is being fielded, in the backs it is not a great deal weaker than the test side Lucas is the equal of Robilliard, if not better, and at one stage of the tour Rush brook had serious claims for inclusion in a test side. McGregor’s return to active football will be welcomed. On the pr esent tour the Canterbury five-eighth has had only three games, which has not given him much opportunity of reproducing the form that made him such a valuable attacking man in the 1921-25 side. Now that he has recoveerd from his injuries it is quite on the cards that ho may yet perform useful service. As an attacking unit the Strang-Mc-Gregor-Nicholls combination should be dangerous. If Harvey is properly fit he can be relied upon to get well Into the game to-day. He has played in only one match so far, and he will be keen to get as much football as he can during the rest of the tour. There remain only two more games—Western Province and the fourth test—and ns a lock it is doubtful at this stage whether he will be preferred to Alley, who has played consistently well throughout, and it is also doubtful whether he can replace any of the men in the side or back row positions, unless, of course, he can show exceptional form in the next two games. He will probably attempt this to-day.

ways, or Zuid Afrikaans Spoorvee, as we sometimes call them haltingly in Afrikaans.

They are always well spoken of, as being among the most comfortable in the world. The distances travelled are so great that it is supremely important that passengers should be comfortable, and by installing the coupe system throughout, the Railway Department has made fairly sure of this. There are never more than three or us to a compartment designed for four, so that we have plenty of room for our luggage and are more free to move about. As it is, where three fairly bulky persons try to get into or out of bed, when there is room for one person only to move, since the beds occupy most of the space, there is sure to be a jostling and a chance of a sham-fight. The meals, too, are fairly good, and we can generally get them up to time. All these details may seem a bit irrelevant, but we have spent 15 nights in the train so far, at our 11th match, just half-way through the tour. We have not been on many fast trains so far, and some of the journeys we have made have been wretchedly slow, sometimes as much as twice as slow as an average New Zealand express time.

Rattling windows and fixtures, so seldom met with in New Zealand, are common, and the stopping and starting of the trains is simply shocking. A thing one rarely fails to notice in New Zealand is the gliding, easy start that most of the engine-drivers give us. Over here there seems to be a competition among the loco-men to wake the greatest number of passengers at night, or upset the most tea or coffee in. the dining saloon. Still, when we get on the train we are generally tired, and all except the light sleepers are soon oblivious to the kicks of the engine. The dust is much worse at this time of the year, since the rains come only in the summer months, and it takes a day or two after a railway journey to get all the dust out of one’s hair, and sometimes we feel that we can never be clean again. Enough of the trains for the present.