“NOT A BATTLE”
RUGBY IN ENGLAND ' ADVICE TO THE ALL BLACKS [Pee United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, May 14. , “ Above all things, tell your men no# to go Home with the idea of whining all their matches at anj’ cost. Th« game is viewed differently in England, said Mr W. E. Henley, of Hawke a Bay, who arrived in Auckland to-day,-He was an Oxford blue in 1929-31* Referring to the All Blacks’ next English tour, he said that the Rugby game in England was not a battle, and tha result did not matter so much. The game was played hard, but it was not a matter of life and death. He thought the All Blacks should be able to win the great majority of their matches. The standard in England was not equal to that of a New Zealand representative team. The average eountv match was not so “ tough a; a provincial match in Now Zealand.
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Evening Star, Issue 21719, 14 May 1934, Page 8
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