LEAGUE FOOTBALL

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 208, 3 September 1925, Page 9

LEAGUE FOOTBALL

SATURDAY'S BIG GAME. QUEENSLAND V. NEW ZEALAND. No attraction jet staged by the Xew Zealand Rugby League in Neve- Zealand is creatine sufh interest as the meeting between the Queensland and New Zealand teams, which is :ret down for Saturday next ar C .irl.iw Park. The visitors claim to ;>o the world's League champions, a c.aim which they hate rightly earned by defeating Enebind. Sew Soma Wales, and »w Zealand. Bat the latter :«ai to-day is uui:e a different proposiiior: to that of thre* , wr-?fc« age. au-i the visitor? v.-;ll rind on Saturday th-r" ' wiil have to be right at the t.o of th<? r form to win at all. With tie assistance of Mr. E. If. Mair. of Queensland, tna New Zealanders i:3.v,» put in solid tra ::- ing daily. besides l-cing instructed in methods which have won for ijueecsland the high position the latter holds. Anticipating a rword crowd, the League has for e?i.tra seating accommodation. ar.<i the playing area has beer, moved -~> yards farther up towards the Stanley >treei end. Botii teams pet :n tbeir tirsal practice this morning, except for exercise totnorrovr. The teams: — NEW ZEALAND. Full-back: Gregory ilOst 131b). Three-quarters: I'arkes il3st . Kirwan 'lit. Delsroiso . lIJZ ■ . Five-eighths: Wetherill llOst 71b \ Saiinders illst 2ib =. Half: W-lson-Hal! (lCfet 9IbK Forwards: C>"Er:en (13s- IlFo), ?t. G-orge <13st 31b), Herring (13st 21bi, Petersen d3st 41b' , , SLnje ilSst, Tib l , Avery. captam (13st Sib). , QUEENSLAND. Fuil-back: Frauenfeld^r. Threequiirters: Gorman, Craig, Ajnsiey. Five-eish'Jis: Moore. Half-back: Connsll. Forwards: Potter (captain. Henderson, Bennett. Pureeil. Steinohrt.. Arza« bmster. It was hoped that Carroll, of Msnawaiu, who "went house after retuminj with the New Zealand team from Australia, would hare come to Aucklan i for the game on Saturday, bat, thong i several -.vires were sent to him, so far no reply has been received from him.