TREATED TOO WELL

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 455, 24 June 1937, Page 5

TREATED TOO WELL

SPRINGBOK DEFEAT Australian Hospitality Press Association —Copyright. Sydney, June 23. According to the newspapers the Springboks nav not yet recovered from their decisive defeat last Saturday. There have been repeated hints that the overwhelming hospitality lavished upon them was largely responsible. The manager, Mr Percy Day, has tent a letter to each member of the team politely requesting them to bo in their hotel no later than 11.15 nightly, to proceed direct to their rooms and not to enter the lounge. Players are requested to be in bed not later than 10 o’clock on the night before a match and are specially enjoined to smoke and drink \as little as possible to ensure fitness.

The captain, P. J. Nel, is taking the team for a car ride to the bush next Saturday morning to enable the players to escape “windy people who do nothing but talk Rugby.” Nel insists that the players must get away from a football atmosphere. Twenty-seven Springboks had valuable practice yesterday and to-day, including M. Bester, who is showing no sign of his Saturday’s injury.