ALL BLACK’S LAST GAME

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30366, 15 February 1964, Page 8

ALL BLACK’S LAST GAME

Accent Upon Quality (From T. P. McLEAN, Sports Editor of the "New Zealand Herald) LONDON, February 14. It looks like the All Blacks to win when they play the Barbarians at Cardiff Arms Park in the last match of their long, arduous and most successful tour. But perhaps victory tomorrow is of less importance than bn other occasions. The accent may be upon the quality of Rugby produced by both teams and particularly upon the capacity of the New Zealanders to develop in the right place and at the right time the kind of Rugby which the much criticised laws still permit when the spirit in the two teams is the right sort. The All Blacks have had to make one change, B. A. Watt for M. A. Herewini, from the team which soundly defeated France last Saturday, but the difference it makes should not be great. Many of the New Zealand hopes of an effective running game must rest upon D. A. Arnold, whose natural brilliance might be ideally suited to this kind of game. The match is a sell-out —to an embarrassing extent for the All Blacks. By a strange oversight they have been provided with only 40 tickets and there will be many disappointed friends of theirs who will be unable to see the game. Given good weather and a firm pitch, given, too, an opposing team of an enterprising kind, the All Blacks should crown their visit by their play tomorrow. And by all the portents they should still win.