SOUTH AFRICAN RUGBY.
VISIT OF. NEW ZEALANDERS.
SUCCESSFUL AND BENEFICIAL. OCCASIONAL TOURS NECESSARY. [FROM OCR OWN PIETERMAEITZBURG. April 7. Tlio thirty-ninth annual report of tho South African. Rugby Board was presented at a meeting of delegates representing the provincial unions at Capetown on April 5. Mr. A. J. Pienaar, tho president, was in the chair. Ho said:— "We are all agreed that tho New Zealand tour of South Africa was successful. It was a benefit to South African Rugby. It served tho purpose in coinparing various styles of tho game. And, further, tho tour definitely laid to tho ground all idea of a Rugby championship of tho world. For that reason it is a good thing that the test match rubber was squared. Even if we had won, it would only have shown that onp country was tiie other for one year. The idea of a Rugby championship of tho world is a myth. "One other thing it has shown is that tours of this sort must not come too often. They are not good for tho game. It has a disorganising effect on tho game and players, and in some insidious way, international tours undermine our ideas of amateurism. While necessary occasionally, they should nob come too frequently."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20263, 24 May 1929, Page 13
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209SOUTH AFRICAN RUGBY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20263, 24 May 1929, Page 13
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