THE ALL BLACKS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 198, 4 August 1928, Page 5

THE ALL BLACKS

TEAM FOR TO-DAY’S MATCH HARVEY JOINS UP ACAIN. GREAT TIME ON OSTRICH FARM [United Press Association—By CableCopyright.] (Special to Press Association.) (Received 14 9.5 a.m.) East London, Aug. 3. The New Zealand team for to-mor-row against the Border team is:— Full-back: Lindsay. Three-quarters: Lucas, Carleton. Grenside. Five-eighths: Nicholls, Lilburne. Half: Strang. Forwards: Scrimshaw, Hore, Burrows, M. Brownlie, Alley Jjnlayson, Hazlett, McWilliams.

The Border side is regarded as fairly strong and is expected to run the All Blacks close. Harvey has joined up with the team and says he is feeling fit again. To-day he turned out to train .having a quiet work-out. It was his first run since before the first test.

Johnson is the great man in the team at the moment, not because of his prowess on the fqotball field, but because of his markmanship. At Burghersdorp he shot a wild ostrich at a shoot arranged for a small party of the Al] Blacks. The bird was said to be travelling at 70 miles an hour when it was shot at 1000 yards. At least, that was the story: the party cannot vouch for the speed but are definite about the distance because they paced it. Swain hit an ortrich in the leg, but the bird got away. After spending most 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 Burghersdorp on the open veldt, and the partv regarded it as easily the best experience they have had in South Africa.