LIONS’ TOUR ITINERARY
“Driven Like Packhorses” (Special Correspondent N.ZJNA.) LONDON, Sept. 16. The International Board of Home Countries has shown little more wisdom than mere club secretaries in agreeing to the playing schedule of the present Australian and New Zealand tour, says Wilfred Woolier in the “News Chronicle." “Driven like packhorses by a tense fixture list, the British Lions have been called upon to play during the week of each international mgteh,” he says. “This is something forbidden to players by each home union during our internationals but no doubt our lads were expected to be endowed with superhuman qualities when they get overseas. “One is inclined to the opinion that money is beginning to play too Important a part in a singularly amateur game and the officials, not the players, are the ones stepping out of line.”
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29002, 17 September 1959, Page 6
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