LEAGUE TEAM BACK

Waikato Times, Volume 123, Issue 20548, 12 July 1938, Page 10

LEAGUE TEAM BACK

LESSONS IN AUSTRALIA MANAGER REVIEWB THE TOUR (By Telegraph.—Press Association) AUCKLAND, Monday. After a tour of Australia, which Is considered successful in every way, the New Zealand League team returned on the Aorangi to-day. Nine matches were played, with live wins thres losses and one draw. Mr J. A. Redwood, who was comanager with Mr \V. O. Carlaw, said the players gained a lot of experience ai.d if it had to go again would be a 50 per cent better side. The tour was a llnaneial success, and Australian critics considered it the best New Zealand team that had visited Australia, lie thought there should he annual tours. A New South Wales country team may tour New Zealand thi6 season, but the matter was not finalised. Mr Redwood said .1. Hemi was the outstanding bad: and would be long remembered in Brisbane for his outstanding goal. When Hemi set the ball ten yards on his own side # of haJfway there was laughter and calls of “ Don’t waste time,” turned into a roar of amazement when the ball went high over the crossbar diead between the posts- Mr Redwood warmly praised \V. Tittleton for his wonderful defensive play, and also Smith and Kay. As for the forwards, New Zealand would have to concentrate on big, strong forwards who alao could hold their own in open play. Bright, open play made the New Zealanders popular with the Australian public. The team’s coach, Mr T. A. McClymont, considered the New Zealand standard of play was on a par with that in Australia but he did not think the Australian standard as good as three years ago. Some of the tourists failed to produce New Zealand form. Next to Hemi’s great goal the best effort he saw was the try by j. Smith in the second match at Queensland. He went clean through the opposing backs with a waltzing run that had everyone baffled.