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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 5, Issue 2 (June 2, 1930)

Inter-Imperial Sport

Inter-Imperial Sport.

Sport, which has long been inter-Imperial, is now international, and the visits of athletic teams have assumed almost a dip omatic character. What Davis Cup tennis is internationally, cricket and football are Imperially, for they embrace all the self-governing units of the Empire outside of North America. It is, therefore, a red-letter sport year that sees a British Rugby team in New Zealand, and the Australian cricketers in England. Both games have so many armchair students that the effect of tours and test matches reaches the old as well as the young generation, and numerous veterans who played cricket when Grace and Giffen did, or football in the days of Gage and Stoddart, are in the game as much as ever when test results are broadcast, so Australia is not so much concerned about the end of the slump as about whether Grimmett, Hornibrook, Wall and company can restore the former effectiveness of the Australian attack. Conversely, the success of the New Zealand loan will hardly countervail the disappointment that will be felt if the Rugby rubber turns against the white All Blacks.

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