THE OTAGO ALL BLACKS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 234, 4 October 1927, Page 14

THE OTAGO ALL BLACKS.

TWO YOUNG PLAYERS.

D. LINDSAY AND A. HORE

(By Telegraph.—Special to "Star.") DUNEDIN, this day. D. P. Lindsay, selected for the New Zealand team, is one of more than a dozen players from Otago University who have represented the Dominion on the football field. Tall and of strong physique, Lindsay has long been judged by competent critics of the game as one who would go far. Lindsay is a fine all-round athlete, his football career commenced at Waimate High School, whence he graduated to Timaru Boys' High School. There he became one of the best backs the school had had for years. Coming to Otago University as a dental student two years ago he was given a game in the senior B team, and his sure handling, sound tackling and powerful kicking soon won him commendation. Towards the end of last year he was defending University as last line

and proved a safe custodian. This year he was playing centre for the B team, but after his return from Australia with the New Zealand University team, in which he proved one of the soundest backs, he played for Otago A side.

He has a quick eye for the open-

ing, and knows how to draw the defence well There were plenty who thought that though Lindsay had the makings of a football champion in him his ability had not developed sufficiently to win him a place in the representative side, but on the recent Northern tour of the Otago team he showed that ho could hold his own against any in, New Zealand. It is no secret to say, however, that experience in big footbail in Australia with the team and with the Otago team in the North has improved his game immensely, and his play in recent trial gamefti showed that he is playing 50 per cent better than he did at the beginning of the present season. Though only nineteen years of age Jack Hore, the Southern forward, is a fine type of player, who will represent NeW Zealand worthily on and ■off the field. Working his way through the junior grades ofthe Southern Club till he- reached the' senior team last year, Hore has a splendid record in club football. - At about thirteen stone: in weight he uses evefcy ounce of it iri his play, which is marked by hard work in the tight, and an immense amount of dash and fast following up in the loose. .An excellent 7 feature of Mr play; is hi* good dribbling, re.' miniscent ; the

style of a former member of his club, Steve Casey, of the famous 1905 All Blacks. Hore has no doubt benefited greatly by the coaching of Steve Catrey and Billy Bain, both excellent exponents of the art of dribbling. Always on the ball Hore, is a dangerous man near his opponents' line, and many'fine tries have been secured by him by a vigorous dive over the line.