ALL BLACKS
SYDNEY PAPERS’ HIGH PRAISE
COMMENT ON SATURDAY’S GAME
(Australian Press Association).
(Received this day -at 11.50' a-m.) V 5 -SYDNEY, August 6.
Commenting on Saturday's game, the "Herald” says the visitors undoubtedly deserved to succeed. They knocked continuously at the door in the closing stages, and it is remarkable ,how they were kept out. In the wing-threequa-rter positions, the side appeared just below standard on the day. In Oaughey, New Zealand has a centre of brilliance.- Page' and Griffiths are a pair of sparkling stand-off halves. }H?-ctley ks the best (hooker seen Jor gome time. Mr . Stuart Perkins, j'in the ‘Telegraph,” . says the All Blacks deserved to .win. On 'Saturday's showing they will develop into a combination superior -to the 1952 side The “Labour Daily” says the preponderance of possession from the scrums and line-outs was a big factor in,■ favour of New Zealand.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 August 1934, Page 6
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