MAD MANAGEMENT

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 62, 10 September 1921, Page 6

MAD MANAGEMENT

SPRINGBOKS AT NELSON

MANAGER MAKES A PROTEST.

(fKIIW rUS« IMOCIATION.—COPTWOIIT.) NELSON, This Day. 1 A strong south-westerly wind! is marling otherwise perfect conditions for the Sprinigiboks t.-i Nelson- and Miarlborough jnalAch. .Great crowds from Marlborough and the surrouifding distrtiqts have ar,:rived. ..The.Springiboks team is as announced'in Wellington. , "

Mr. Bennett,."manager of the Sprfaff,'boks, replying to a ervde reoeption, took (particularly strong exception to the ar^ahigemeLlts ',made 'for travelling. It was only fair 'that' the public, whom he *hanked-for their hearty reception, should i know ..that the • team left Napier, land after,,,affright's,rest in..Wellingfcon--ware- put ■on board ■ the boat,- "where they igot very little sleep. Some of-the men could not .get iberths till'iafter the veasel •left Pktton, and on arrival ait the hotel in Nelson they found no rooms available. They expected the match- to start :at lp.m."and found if was to start'at 2.15, leading' barely ' time ;to catch the. boat ■ait 4:30. They now learned at tihe last -moment"'that..there was no accommo- . and .that, the. Mapourika may be delayed until Tuesday. In. view of the • coming Test match, he took strong exception to this treatment. It did not jjiye them a, chance to get fit. He did not know who was .to blame, but it was time something was said about it.