PRAISED ALL ROUND.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 167, 18 July 1938, Page 12

PRAISED ALL ROUND.

Superlative Backs and Team Work.

(T'nitfd Prees Association. —Copyright.)

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SYDNEY, this day

/' The Sydney "Herald" comments as follows:—"Driving their way through woefully weak defence, the All Blacks played sparkling football. Some of the moves initiated by the visitors' insde backs would have nonplussed the best of defenders, but the New South Wales men, whose duty it was to stop them, were helpless. The dramatic thrusts of Berghan, Sullivan, Mitchell and Morrison, nearly always started by the bulletlike pass from Saxton, stirred the crowd to enthusiasm.

"Mitchell is the most dazzling three-quarter who has trodden an .***«-: alian field for many a day."

Sid Kirp, v/riting in the "Daily Telegraph," says: "The secret of Ire All Blacks' success was the superlative speed of the inside backs and the team work."

E. N. Greatorex, in the "Sunday Sun," says: "The amazing thir.g to many who saw the game was how supposedly good judges in New Zealand should have shaken their heads about this team."

Experts after the game were saying that the team is as <■ good as any other New Zealand has sent over since the war. Most who saw the game probably left with the impression that the All Blacks will have no trouble in winning the Tests.