A SQUARE DEAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10736, 6 November 1928, Page 7

A SQUARE DEAL.

THE ALL BLACKS TESTS

GIVE THE DUTCHMEN A TROUNCING.”

DUNEDIN, Oct. 26. A Dunedin citizen who accompanied the AH BJaeks on their South African tour says that- there was not

-lie slightest possibility of betting having had an influence on any of tiie matches. Two-thirds of our fellows would not have known what anyone was talking about if he had uggesred a bribe to play to lose. That was an initial safeguard against a ‘sehlenter.-’ Even more potent lor square dealing was the intense race feeling of the Dutch footballers, who wore candidly anxious to ‘down’ the New Zealanders, simply because they -stood for 'British.’ The colored peoples, Indians as well as Kaffirs, sided strongly with, the New Zealanders. On the morning of the last Test match, whilst Mark Nieholls and his colleagues were at breakfast, one of the Indian waiters slipped into' the' hands of the New Zealand player a note written in ,excellent English, wishing that- they would give theDutchmen a trouncing. ‘•‘On a wonderful tour to Rhodesia, ill this race antipathy disappeared. Rhodesia is solidly English, and residents. build high hones'on the ultimate prosperity of that region through having n good port in Portuguese territory.”