GREAT FOOTBALLERS
PRAISE FOR MAORIS ENGLISH SPORTSMAN IMPRESSED [ Special to *' Chronicle. ** ] AUCKLAND, Feb. IS. An interesting visitor to New Zealand is Mr H. Sltazenger, of the Wellknown firm of English sports goods manufacturers. Mr Sluzenger, who arrived to-day by the Franconia from New York, is an old English Rugby international, and played tagainst the first Maori team that visited England in the eighties. “I remember that some of them would sooner play in bare feet than wear boots,” recalled Mr Slazenger. “Like their successors of last year, they were good players land fine fellows. I also saw the All Blacks, who, I think, were the finest team that ever stepped on to a football ground.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19771, 19 February 1927, Page 7
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115GREAT FOOTBALLERS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19771, 19 February 1927, Page 7
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