NEPIA IMPRESSES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 182, 6 August 1935, Page 4

NEPIA IMPRESSES

• ■ SHOULD BE WITH ALL BLACKS’’ AN .IN\ LR.CARGIL L OPINION [ Per Presd Association. ] INVERCARGILL, Aug. 5. According to Air. W. Baird, a mem ber of the Alunagenient Committee of the Southland Rugby Union, who has just returned from Autsraiia, Nepia should be on his way to England with the All Blacks. It is Mr. Baird's view that Nepia is playing football to-day equally as brilliant as that which won him All Black honours ten years ago. Without, him lhe Alaoris would have been overwhelmed by New South Wales, and on his display in that match alone, Air. Baud considered, a ban mistake hag been made by the New Zealand selectors in not sending him to England. “Kight throughout the game Nepia demonstrated his uncanny anticiput'ou and hi o tackling was superb,” declared Air. Baird. “On one occasion I saw arm bottle up two opponents when a score seemed a certainty. He was as lit as a fiddle, as a full-back* should be, took tile ball on the full every tn>e, and he was never once caught in possession. He gained huge slices of territory with effortless Kicks with cither fool. There is no doubt that he would have been a wonderful draw in the Old Country. One had only to see the. Australian’s enthusiasm over him to re.disc that.”