TOUR TOO STRENUOUS

Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1935, Page 5

TOUR TOO STRENUOUS

, . ... ! .l ■ INDIAN HOCKEY TEAM COMPLAINT COMPARISONS WITH ALL BLACKS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, July 19. The belief that the Indian hockey team’s tour 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 and mental strain. He contrasted the programme of 29 matches in ten weeks with the All Blacks’ 25 matches in three months and 20 days. There would be 29 All Blacky, but the Indians numbered 16. i The team had had to play, three matches within a radius of 40 miles—at Hamilton, Morrinsville and Te Aroha. Surely, he said, it would have been possible to allow the team to stay at Hamilton as headquarters and send the teams from there instead of all having to go to the three places. Mr. Gupta said he wished to correct a report emanating from Christchurch that the team had been indulging in too many extras at the expense of the New Zealand Hockey Association. It was an irresponsible statement, he said. The team had not exceeded its rights in any direction, but had willingly paid many expenses that should have been carried by the association. Another point was that no member of the team drank liquor; they drank much milk. NEW ZEALAND TEST TEAM. LAST MATCH AGAINST INDIA. Auckland, July 19. The New Zealand hockey team for the final test match against India, to-morrow will be: Moore, Ewan, Rogers, W. J. Bowden, McLeod, Spiers, M. Bowden, Bay, E. Watts, Turbitt, Wellborne.