"A HARD GAME"

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 25, 29 July 1937, Page 11

"A HARD GAME"

HAMILTON MATCH

VIEWS OF CAPTAINS

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

HAMILTON, July 28.

After the match, P. Nel, the Springboks' -captain, said: "It was a/ hard game, played in the best of spirit, and I- would like to pay a tribute to. the Combined team for the manner in which they adapted themselves to the very heavy conditions and the clean game they played. We never experience such mud in our own country, and we learnt a lesson from the Combined teami" . ■:.-..■ ..Several playing members of the yisit■iii'g team agreed that the game was a hard and keenly-contested struggle, one remarking that the New Zealanders had a real Rugby tradition. ■■ Like, the Africans, they played a hard game-all the time,'even minor teams,- and fought to the,bitter.,end in- a- manner seldom seen in- Australia,.. where' teams were not so hard to beat once a lead was gained over them. . *, . ' , Crossman,- captain of the Combined team, said the home team was delighted1 with the game, considering the conditions. They were pleased they had eiven the Springboks a hard fight for it. It"was possession that won the game for the visitors.