ALL BLACKS’ CHANCES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 78, 15 March 1935, Page 4

ALL BLACKS’ CHANCES

I English Piay Improved I SPORT IN ROYAL AIR FORCE • I - “When the next All Black team goes Homo, it will find England a much stiffer hurdle than in 1924,” said Flying-Officer Gordon White, who has returned te Hastings after II the completion of btx years in the 1 1 Royal Air Force, in th# course of ' | an interview to-day. “I can assure 1 you,” he added, “that England is j not asleep, and the English teams arc improving all the time ’ ’ Flying-Officer W bite, who was a well i known Rugby player in Hawke’s Bay 1 | before he went Home to join the An ■ Force, represented the Air Force and ■ j Leicester at Rugby, and the Air Force 1 at athletics. At Rugby he played in r the three-quarter line, which was hife - I old position in Hawke's Bay football. Ju the Air Force athletic championships he won the Tong jump with a jump > of 22 feet inches. “I was never 111 such poor training before or since,” he said, “and 1 did a better jump than ever j have done before or since.’ Otherwise, he said, he had not done ’ much good at athletics. Mr White stated that in the Air ! Force sporty and game* of every type > | were given the utmost encouragement. ! Their great value not only as physical training but as disciplinary training as well was fully realised, and every possible facility for the playing o' i games was provided.