The practice adopted this year of assembling 70 Rugby players in Wellington lo take part in four trial matches in eight days lo pick the New Zealand team to meet the Springboks has not worked out at all satisfactory. There has been an extraordinary number of casualties. On Wednesday one team had to take the field a man short, and another finished tho match with only 13 players. Mr. S. S. Dean, chairman of the executive of the New Zealand Rugby Union, stated that he considered the idea of assembling players for trial matches in one centre had much to commend if, but lie thought it was a bit 100 much to ask players to play on Saturday and again on Monday. It seemed to him that in future trial matches would only be played on Saturday, Wednesday and Saturday.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19378, 16 July 1937, Page 6
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