DR. NEWMAN AND CRICKETERS. TO THE EDITOR.
Sir, — Dr. Newman is reported in last evening's Post to have said^in the qourke of his advice to the Now Zealand football team on Saturday night, "What ; has wrecked no end of teams is that they have poured too much down their necks. We see cricket teams go Home, play brilliantly at the beginning, and not maintain ~that character to the end." Surely the Doctor does not mean that because the Australian eleven have been unsuccessful in the test matches that their defeat is due to too much drinking — as that is the inference that has been draira by a lot of people. I think that Australian crier keters are as abstemious as most athletes where drink is concerned. You may as well state that the Englishmen's defeat in four test matches out of five by Darling's previous team wpo due to too much imbibing by the Englishmen, and not the 'excellence of 1 play by the colonials. — I am, etc., AUSTRALIAN. Wellington, 31st July.
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Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 37, 12 August 1905, Page 15
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172DR. NEWMAN AND CRICKETERS. TO THE EDITOR. Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 37, 12 August 1905, Page 15
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