THE SPRINGBOK SEASON
Sir,-For some weeks now Messrs. McCarthy, Boggs and others, on the air, have been urging, cajoling, browbeating us all to get behind our national selectors and players in a determined, loyal and united effort to beat the Springboks. To me, as a Kiwi born and bred, this a most laudable attitude, were it not for the haunting belief that the game is greater than the players (and, of course, immeasurably more important than the watchers or even the august administrators). As all my reading and research convinces me that the South Africans are infinitely more thorough and honest than: we in their approach to the great game, and accordingly produce more able and dedicated teams, I must, perhaps reluctantly, support them. Are any of your readers faced with this dilemma?
F.
B.
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 873, 27 April 1956, Page 5
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136THE SPRINGBOK SEASON New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 873, 27 April 1956, Page 5
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