INDIAN HOCKEY TEAM

Grey River Argus, 1 August 1935, Page 5

INDIAN HOCKEY TEAM

ROUGH SPIN IN M.Z. MR GUPTA’S COMMENT. SYDNEY, July 31. M: I’. G’ pt referring to the InJiau hockey tea tour of New Zealand said the at ..ngements were diseustritg. “We played in ram, sleet, ush an ■ mud and how we managed t ( . win a match remains a mystery to I me. We were onee forced to travel a hundred miles in a motor bus in extierne cold. The manner in which through the ts ande to twrniv-nin- matches did not alI ’ow us to se’ much of the beauties , country, but what we did see ... greatly. The people in aland are sport mad. Although re got e-owds of twenty thousand. I kink e’ghty per eent were attracted by the fact that we were Indians.” CHRISTCHURCH July 31. Mr Gupta is not manage- of the Indian team and has no authority to n k any comment' on the arrange- ■ its for f’e tour of New Zealand. Mr W. H. Down Secretary of New Zealand Hockey Association, • eferring to a cablegram from Svdney. The New Zealand Assoc ; anon. Mr Down said has already received from the manager of the Indian team Behram Doctor a letter expressing entire satisfaction with all the arinngetnentft for the four. Mr Gupta was merely an official travelling with tl'<i team, and b-fore he left Auckland he wrote to the New Zealand Association. expressing regret that p.-rfa : n statement- he had made in newspapers had created a different | impression from what he -ntended.