Question: Why Not

a N. Guinea Tour?

By Peter Hall

)N”T it about time that a repre sentative P-NG sporting team went on a short tour of Aus ilia or New Zealand?

Something on a much bigger and bter scale than the recent NSW ir of a combined Rabaul baseball m, which Australian baseball fans, alone the rest of the sporting blic, didn’t appear to have heard Fiji has already set the pace. [f sports-minded New Guinea sn’t got a combined team of play ; good enough to trounce anybody anything, it shouldn’t worry, rhe team would probably have ;nty of enthusiasm, anyhow, and > beside the point if it happened lose every match.

Look at the drubbing that Philip les tennis team got on its recent

Davis Cup jaunt—but it went home a much improved side, and what team wouldn’t after clashing with some of the world’s top players?

As a suggestion for New Guinea, it shouldn’t be long now before soccer Stanley Matthews will be bringing the topnotch Blackpool side to Australia. It might perhaps cross the mind of some enterprising NG promoter to suggest to Matthews that he play a couple of matches there.

I think Matthews would be in terested in looking at some of those Papuan boys and, of course, the Chinese.

Worth a try, anyhow.

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