SETTLING TO HARD WORK

Evening Star, Issue 19893, 15 June 1928, Page 4

SETTLING TO HARD WORK

SHOULD WIN TESTS [Special to the ‘Stah.’J CHRISTCHURCH, June 14. “It is quite good to see that our fellows arc showing something like form, and playing well,” said Mr S. F. Wilson, president of the Canterbury Rugby Union, when a reporter asked him what he thought of the All Blacks’ success against the Orange Free State. Mr Wilson, who accompanied tho the New Zealand team of 1924 on its visit to tho British Isles and France, said; “Tho most pleasing thing about yesterday’s success is tho fact that the forwards aro settling down to harder work. An inclination of many of the forwards not to work their hardest in the scrums, and the tight work generally, was something he had expected in the early matches. It was much that way in England,” ho said. “ Except in about three games our forwards did not play as they really could. Now, of course, they are finding that thev have to ‘go for it. 1 It would bo different if they had a Cooke for then they would not have to worry so much about the other teams getting possession of the ball. Without a Cooke every man has got to work his hardest, and it is fine to see that the forwards aro putting more weight in the scrums. Wo might lose another match or two, but now that the All 1 Macks are settling down, and the forwards are working harder, I think that New Zealand will win tho tests.”