TOUR TOO STRENUOUS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18763, 20 July 1935, Page 15

TOUR TOO STRENUOUS

•TAX ON HOOKE? TEAM

ANSWER* ¥8 CRITICISM (Per Press,Association.? AUCKLAND, this day. The belief that v the Indian hockey team’s ,tqiu-i,of .New, Zealand was made unnecessarily strenuous .is held by the co-manager, Mr. G. Gupta, who said he did not know of any other team which had had to undergo such physical arid’’ mental strain. He contrasted the programme of 29 matches in teii weeks with the All Blacks’ 26 matches in three months and 20 days. There would'be 29 All Blacks, but the Indians numbered 16. The team bad had to play tln-ei patches within, a, radius of 40 miles at Hamilton, Morrinsville and Te Aroha. Surely it would have been possible to allow the team to stay at Hamilton as headquarters and send teams ffom there instead of rill having to go to the three places, said, Mr. Gupta. He wished to correct a report email ating from Christchurch that the team had been indulging in too many extras at the expense of the hockey association. If it, was so stated, it was an irresponsible statement. The team, had not exceeded its rights in any dircc> tion, but had willingly paid many expenses that should have been carried by the hockey association. Another point whs that no member of the team drank liquor. They dr.ank a Jot of milk.