RUGBY TOURISTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 136, 11 June 1927, Page 9

RUGBY TOURISTS.

THE N.S.W. REP. TEAM. Players Selected for Visit to Britain and France. A STRONG COMBINATION. IBy Cable.—Frcss Association.—Copyright ! deceived 1 p.m.') SYDNEY, this day. Twenty-eight members of the Rugby I nion team t<> tour Britain and France in the coming sea>nn arc: Etill-back: Ro»s. Three-quarters: Palmer. Wallace. Egan, E. Ford, Tn\\ci>, Kin:.'. Rowers. (■onion. Five-eighths: Law ion. Shcennn Meagher. Halves: Duncan, Malcolm. Forwards: Tarlcton, Blackwood, Rlair, •T. Tailored, Woods, Fox, Finlay, J mid. Storey, J. Ford, Thorn, Breckcnridge, A. Tancrcd, (ircatorex. One more is to l>e ciio«en. The team should mould into formidable combination. This New South Wales combination includes a dozen of the players who visited New Zealand in and eight of them were in the fifteen that played the one Test match of that tour at A'.uklan I. brins: beaten :>«'►—li> by a side composed of the I!)'J4 All Black team that toured England, reinforced by Kinlayson. the N<.it h Auckland forward. These (fight were Bowers, Lawton, and Meagher of the kt.ks. and Woods. Blackwood. Judd. Teli'i.rd. and Ford of the forwards. Since teen Ross, of Sydney University lias displaced in full-back position Toby, who cros.M-d over to the League game. T. l'an< red is a giant forward, \\ ho played Rugby in Wellington, subsequently represented New Zealand in tl:e League game, and went to Sydnev, where he returned to Riigbv. The others of tho team who were in New Zealand in aie (Ireatorrx Palmer. Th"iii. aiiil T.uieton. K. Thorn was captain of the lui"> side, and T. Lawton lex-Oxt'ord plaver of lli'Jl) was viec-cap-tain. Botn those players, and Wallace l another Australian player who got his Rugby blue in Kngland) will be in the running tor the captaincy of this team iu England.