ALL BLACKS FIT.
TRAINING ON BARE FEET. EXCELLENT KICKING. London, Sept. 3. Th© All Blacks are likely to provide as remarkable a tour as did their predecessors in 1905. Nobody watching them training at Newton Abbot this morning would have thought that they had been five weeks on board ship. They are absolutely fit. They finished a mile run without turning a hair, sprinted on bare feet, walked barefooted to the hotel, half a mile away. After breakfast they practised lineouts. goal-kicking, and engaged in passing bouts at full speed. Several showed themselves as wonderful goalshooters, putting the ball over the bar from the touchline at half-way. The features of the line-outs were the quick break-aways, with the ball on the toes' varying tnese movement with short passing movements among the forwards. As there was no opposition their effectiveness could not be estimated; but their speed is remarkable. Steel’s arm has been X-rayed, and there is no fracture. He will probably participate in the opening match against Devon. His colleagues are gratified at the slightness of the injury as it will enable their best wing threequarter and great sprinter to take his place in the first match. A formidable social and sight-seeing programme has been arranged.— (Sydney “Sun” special).
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 236, 12 September 1924, Page 5
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