TOO STRENUOUS

Evening Star, Issue 22085, 19 July 1935, Page 10

TOO STRENUOUS

INDIAN COMPLAINT OF HOOKEY TOUR 29 MATCHES IN 10 WEEKS [Pub Uhit*d Press Association.] AUCKLAND, July 19. The belief that fclio Indian hockey team’s tour of New Zealand Was made unnecessarily strenuous is held hy the co-manager, Mr G. Gupta, who said he did not know of any other team which had had to undergo such physical and mental strain. He contrasted their programme of 29 matches in 10 weeks with the All Blacks’ 28 matches in three months and 20 days. There would be 29 All Blacks, but the Indians numbered 16. The team had had to play three matches within a radius of 40 miles —at Hamilton, Morrinsville, and Te Aroha. Surely it would have been possible to allow the team to stay at Hamilton as headquarters and send the teams from there instead of all having to go to the three places. Mr Gupta said he wished to correct a report emanating from Christchurch that the team had been indulging in too many extras at the expense of the Hockey Association. It was a stupid and irresponsible statement. The team had not exceeded its rights in any direction, but had willingly paid many expenses that should have been carried by the Hockey Association. Another point was that no member of the team drank liquor. They ' drank a lot of milk.