THE ALL BLACKS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 303, 5 October 1935, Page 6

THE ALL BLACKS

MATCH AT BIRKENHEAD.

AN EPIDEMIC OF COLDS.

TEN MEN AFFECTED'. United Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) LONDON, October 4. The Lan c ash ire- Cl ies hi re team to play the All Blacks a,t Birkenhead tomcffTQvr is as follows: Full-back : Horne. Three-quarters: Davey, Heaton, Leyland and Sever. Half-hacks: Bowker and Park.

Forwards: Cooper, Taft, Reynolds, Vallance, Ashworth, Fry, WatcynThomas and' Nycock. The New Zealanders were re-united at Liverpool for the first time since the opening game. Page and Mahoney rejoined the team from Bradford, and Dalton from Newport. Mahoney, who is almost a stone overweight owing to lack of practice', and Dalton are both fit. Page will probably miss two or three more games. Another epidemic of colds lias broken out, affecting 10 men, including Hore, Manchester and Gilbert, but they are expected to turn out against Lancashire.

THE NEW ZEALAND TEAM. (Received This Day, 1.10 p.m.) LONDON, October 4. The AU Blacks’ team against Lancashire and Cheshire is as follows: Full-back: Gilbert. Three-quarters: Brown, Oliver and Hart. Five-eighths: Caughey and Griffiths. Half-back: Sadler. Forwards: Hore, Lambourne, Adkins, Reid, King, McKenzie, Best and Vorrath.