THE ALL BLACKS.
SOUTH AFRICAN TOUR. ASPERSIONS ON BROWNLIE. PRESS CRITICISED. (Special Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. It has been left to Mr Joseph Brownlie, presumably a relative of Mr Maurice Brownlie, to take the newspapers to account for having published a scathing criticism of the All Blacks team of footballers now in South Africa from an anonymous correspondent. “My amazement, ’ lie writes in the Dominion this morning, “ arose from the fact that such a direct personal attack should ever have appeared in leading newspapers in New Zealand. Maurice Brownlie was elected or selected to captain the New Zealanders in South Africa. The choice having been made, the fair thing was to support him loyally while he was carrying through the duties allotted to him. Surely he might look for such a measure of ordinary loyalty from his own people and the Press of his own country. 1 do not believe his people have failed in this respect, but I cannot say the same of the Press.’’ Mr Joseph Brownlie emphasises his protest at considerable length, and local “sporting” opinion seems to be with him to a man.
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Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17493, 29 August 1928, Page 8
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186THE ALL BLACKS. Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17493, 29 August 1928, Page 8
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