SUCCESSFUL TOUR

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 28, 2 August 1932, Page 9

SUCCESSFUL TOUR

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES

JESSEP FOR MELBOURNE

The outstanding impression to bo gained from conversation with members of the team was that success onthe playing fields—a success achieved by unfailing^ attention to the primary purpose of the tour—ana the open-i handed hospitality met on all sides had combined to make the tour one of the most successful from all points of view that has ever been undertaken by a New Zealand side. There is no doubt that the tourists were a happy party in which all worked for a com-' mon end, and that their behaviour on

and off the field won tho admiration and respect of the Australians.

The team has brought back not only memories, but also physical traces of the hard grounds encountered in Australia. There was only one really wot ground, the Sydney cricket ground on the occasion of the second match against New South Wales, but even that was hard in comparison with New Zealand grounds. However, ' the tourists apparently had the speedy material necessary to adapt themselves to these conditions and play their opponents at their own game. At Brisbane, where there ia a very fine ground, the playing surface was watered, and this took some of the fire out of it, but it was still very bard. "On the Sydney ground," said one of the players, "the Bulli soil cricket pitch was as hard as boards. You could hear the feet rattling, on it as the players ran across it."

Some of the players suffered from contact with the hard grounds, and in the First Test both Pollock and Caughey felt the effects of Concussion for a big part of the game. Their displays won praise from the Australian critics, but they were scarcely conscious of much that they did.

While the team was in Australia several rumours were set afoot with regard to the possibility of members of the party remaining in Australia, but these were all discounted. When the team landed to-day it was -announced that E. Jessep; the Poneke forward, would be returning within a few weeks to Melbourne. DROPPING OF LAWXON. ..'■ With regard to Lawton, the veteran Waratah leader, the. All Blaeks were doubtful as to whether the selectors were wise in dropping him. for the Third Test. There was no doubt, however, that he was well past his best..

In the last match against a country team at Wellington, in which the opposition was very weak, there was mild! competition among the members of the team as to who could score the most points. 'Several players who do not usually do much in the way of plaepkieking were given opportunities to, convert, tries, and Manchester turned one of. these to account with what he says is "the first goal he has kicked in his life." ■.■ ,