GREAT TRY BY NESBIT

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29245, 1 July 1960, Page 3

GREAT TRY BY NESBIT

All Blacks’ Poor Play [From GRAEME JENKINS, N2fA. Staff Correspondent] - KITWE, June 30. Had it not been for a glorious try by the first fiveeighths, S. R. Nesbit, which was quite the finest individual effort of the tour, the match between the All Blacks and a Rhodesian XV at Kitwe yesterday could best be forgotten. The All Macks gave a poor . showing against, a side which was not over strong. To the credit of the All Blacks, they tried to play open Rugby but in doing so they repeated all their mistakes of the past matches, with the forwards hanging oft and the backs t having another day of dropped passes. Very few of the players enhanced their reputations. Two who did were the try scorers, Nesbit, and the number eight, H. C. Burry, who notched two. Nesbit and the half-back, R. J. Urbahn, combined very well to give one of the snappiest displays of the tour, but they were the only Jjacks .to go well throughout. Burry was easily the best of the All Black forwards, although he proved just as inept at passing and receiving a ball as the backs on the occasions he linked up with the rearguard. Both his tries were first-class efforts.

W. D. Gillespie, on the side of the scrum, had a fair match, although both he and the other flanker, E. A. A. Pickering, seemed as if they had signed a non-aggres-sion pact with the opposition halfback and five-eighths. Neither tackled very well. Gillespie’s covering was of a high order. The two newcomers to the side, tl.e hooker, R. J. Boon, having his first match as an All Black, and the left wing, D. H. Cameron, playing for the first time since breaking a finger in Australia, were fair.

Cameron needs only a little more confidence and determination to be a valuable man for the team. He. had few real chances. Boon outhooked the Springbok trialist, R. Hill, five tight heads to three. One of the worst features of the match was the number of penalties given away by the New Zealanders. The final tally was 23 to the Rhodesian side and 10 to the New Zealanders. They could easily have been beaten had E. Holton, who kicked his team’s three goals, not missed a few easy ones. It was distressing to see the New Zealand full-back, W. E. Davies, miss with seven shots out of seven.