AN OBJECT LESSON

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 July 1938, Page 5

AN OBJECT LESSON

TRIBUTE TO TEAMWORK OF NEW ZEALANDERS AUSTRALIAN BEATEN AT ALL POINTS (Recd This Day. 9.25 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The “Sydney Morning Herald” says: ‘“Outclassed in tactics and outclassed in play, Australia never looked like beating the All Blacks in the first Test match. The game was not a brilliant exhibition of open play, but was extremely hard fought. The plan with which New Zealand countered the strengthened Australian 'defence was an object lesson in Rugby. The spectators might have been disappointed with the game as a spectacle, but could not have failed to appreciate the teamwork and understanding of the New Zealand team, which found the weaknesses of the Australian combination and exploited them to the full.” Sid King, writing in the “Daily Telegraph,” says New Zealand defeated Australia because of superiority in all departments of (the game. Only in courage did the Australians match their opponents. The game suffered as a spectacle through the spoiling tactics of the Australians. They set out to bottle up the brilliant New Zealand Zealand inside backs, who had turned the match against New South Wales into an exhibition. They succeeded but the All Blacks’ coach, Mr McDonald, had anticipated this, and had planned a counter move. The attack was centred near the scrum and brought back to the forwards.