ALL BLACKS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 4 August 1928, Page 5

ALL BLACKS

MATCH AGAINST BORDER

OSTRICH HUNTING.

TEAM HAVE A DAY ON VELDT

(Special to Press Association). Received 1(1.5 a.m. to-day. iv AST iA)N DON Ans- 3. T..e N...v /.eatand .team ipr to-moi-iow . .ist Border will be: — Fho-back: Lincfcav- t Tb.ce-qi.ar tens': Lucas, Caritfin, and Granside. Five-eighths: Nicholls and Lib urn.

Half: "Strang;. Forwards: Scrimshaw, More, Burrows, M. Brownlie. Alley, Finlnyson, Haz.ett and McWilliams. The Border side is , regarded tm fairly ■strong and is expected to> run the All Blanks, o’lose. Harvey lias joined up with, the it earn and siav.s that‘lie feels fit again. Today he turned out to train, having a quiet workout. It was his iinett* run si-n-'-re- b-efor«e- the? first- t-eist. Johnson is the groat man in the team at the moment, not because o his prowess on the football field, but because of Inis markmanship at Bu rg hersdoip. He shot a. wild ostrich at a shoot arranged for a small party of Alt Blacks'. The bird was said to be travelling 70 miles per hour when .it was shot at a thousand yards; at feast that was the story, The party cannot vouch, for the speed 1 , but are definite about the distance, because they paced it Swain hit an ostrich in the leg, but the bird sot away. After spending riTCist of the time chasing ostriches, the party finished, off the day on another farm where they shot a springbok. It, was a, great day spent 40 miles from T>u rghersdorp on the open veldt, and •the party regarded it as easily the Inert experience they have had in South Africa.