TRIALS WILL PROVE TRUE STANDARD OF OUR RUGBY
Once we had good cause to be proud that the smallest Dominion produced the toughest teams. Now, while we pretend not to be disconcerted, we are secretly ashamed that South Africa has made us look like a lot of ineffectives. Alterations to the rules may have had something to do with it. National psychology, politics, economy, dietetics, ships, sealingwax, and a host of other excuses might be made. The point really is that we blew ourselves up too high and can’t complain about the debunking pin-prick. Probably the only really bad thing about Rugby is that so many people watch it and so few play it. The game is sociologically more important and more healthy in a country village than in a city. Still, there will be some excuse for the crowds at Athletic Park these next two Saturdays, and for the thousands C. Lamberg will talk to on the air during the games, and George Aitken and Frank Kilby afterward. The immediate fate of our national game is in the balance, with Southland’s good men and true weighing down the right side. With all its faults, the game is still a good enough excuse for an Armistice. It will do us good to forget Europe on Saturdays, however vivid the reality may be during the rest of the week.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 13, 22 September 1939, Page 51
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