ALL BLACKS SELECTION.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 115, 16 May 1924, Page 7

ALL BLACKS SELECTION.

COUXTRY DELEGATE'S CRITICISM. (By TeleerapL'.—Own Correspondent.) MORBINSVILLE, this day. The most recent development regarding the selection of the All Blacks was the subject of severe criticism yesterday by Mr. C. McDavitt (president of the Waikato Rugby Union and one of the selectors for the combined Auckland team which played East Coast i in connection with the appointment, at an emergency meeting, of two additional selectors by the management committee of the New Zealand Rugby Union. Mr. McDavitt said it was hard to understand the object cf additional selectors being appointed, and it apDeared to be a case of trying to please too many. He described as "hole and corner" the method of the management committee in overriding the direction of the annual meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Union. "If Mr. Dean, as chairman of the management committee," continued Mr. McDavitt, "is to allow this sort of thing to go on while he is in New Zealand and under the control of the delegates, one wonders what he will do when he gets on the other eide as manager of the All Blacks." Regarding Ifwersen's .inclusion in last Saturday's match, Mr. McDavitt eaid parochialism had evidently crept in. and the Auckland selectors (the only selectors present at the match) and the Auckland Rugby Union had preferred going out of thenway to avert defeat than to giving eligible players an opportunity of showing whether they were fit or not to represent New Zealand.