SAME OLD NEPIA

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18756, 12 July 1935, Page 6

SAME OLD NEPIA

SYDNEY WRITER’S EULOGY II EM I AS A RIVAL SMITH’S GREAT VALUE (Elce. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received July 11, 2 p.m.) SYDNEY, July 11. Stuart Perkins, in the Telegraph, says that Nepia yesterday was the Napia of old, often playing the role of threequarter, and at other times leaving would-be tacklers grasping the air, but lie was rivalled by lleini, who is all that report made him out to be. Smith bounced tacklers from the hips, and looks like showing a big dividend in tries. There is no end to the chases and tricks of this swift mover, who is going to be a. nuisance to the opposition. There are tons -of power and pace about tlie Maori forwards, but there are scrummage weaknesses which no doubt will be quickly remedied.' The fact that tlic tourists’ line was not crossed is testimony to the quality of the tackling. Taking his only chance of seeing the Maoris in action, Jock Richardson, vicecaptain of the 1924 invincibles, motored 30 miles over muddied roads from Ligune, where he is stationed, to attend yesterday’s match.