TOUR OF THE SPRINGBOKS

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XIX, Issue 6278, 23 July 1921, Page 2

TOUR OF THE SPRINGBOKS

INi'ERVjKW WITH VISITING ( APTAIN. TEST MATCH PROSPECTS. Dili viewed In- the Wellington Limes reporter Mr Piennar. captain of the Springboks (South African football, cr.s) sard lie believed the team won,a,\ meet the star backs in "Wellington, and to quote Asquith s phrase, he “would preler to wait amj seeA’

Some ot your methods at\> unorthodox," remarked Mr Pienaar. “1, do not i near, to suggest tluit. you infringe the [ i ides e| the panic, but your men do uni expected things. Many ot ns. who play. led against t ] R . Xow Zealand Army team in .South Africa, are aware of that." Mr Pienaar spoke o,' the break.away i l .) wards that the team met in Sydney. and tlie wing-lonvurd, that they nere meeting with here. “We Imre no men under orders to break from the sci mu and interfere with the opening up o; the game, such a< in done in Syd-. raw. More often than nut, these breakaways are oil-side. To our men. this, and the wing-forward style of play, tends to spoil the game. Their aim is to try and up.et al attempts at combination, and they k ll the open game, that Wv are accii'tomcd In. by nipping all possible movements in the bud at tlie base of tbe scrum.'’

Asked as to how his team exported I" slhipo against the A If-Blacks, with the. 1 tiree-(|iia rter- a,n 1 two five eighths combination. Mr Pienaar said. "■|ha( .piesthm nan he argued for n long t. me. and yon will be just where ton worm It c believe in our oombina--1,011 W'ind tlu> serum, and. two will do ottr besf with it,"