WHINERAY PRAISED

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30289, 15 November 1963, Page 20

WHINERAY PRAISED

“A Wonderful Leader” (N.Z. Press Assn.—CopyrlqM) LONDON, Nov. 14. New Zealand's Rugby Union captain, W. J. Whi'.ieray, gave a “memorable performance” in the All Blacks 20-6 win over Cambridge University. “The. Times" reported. But the tourists “knew all right" they had been in a game, the newspaper's Rugby correspondent said. "Cambridge’s ferocious covering, tackling and smothering were something that the visitors had not met before, except at Newport, and it took them some time to adjust themselves," he said. "They had clearly decided that upright All Blacks were dangerous, so they tore into them and flattened them, hard and without any ceremony—and they kept on doing it.” "Whineray indeed was prodigous." said the “Daily Telegraph.” “In the loose his übiquity and those devastating straight bursts make him in the literal sense a wonderful leader.” The “Daily Express” said the performance of the Cambridge first five-eighths, Gibson, “shook the tourists in a game the All Blacks scarcely deserved to win by a 14-point margin.” The word has already gone back to New Zealand that the Gibson boy will be the British Lions' No. 1 spearhead when they tour in 1966.” the newspaper said. “He dummied, swerved, and side-stepped through with the contemptuous ease of a very great player.”