"MOKE" BELLISS.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 221, 18 September 1929, Page 17

"MOKE" BELLISS.

GREAT RUGBYITE'S LAST GAME. OPPOSES PORTER IN FINAL FLUTTER. (By Telegraph.—Special to " Star.") WANGANUI, this day. "Moke" Belliss, of Taihape, in a letter to Dr. G. J. Adams, president of the Wanganui Rugby Union, has intimated that to-day's match against Wellington (captained by Porter) will be his last, unless Wanganui is absolutely stuck, when he would don the jersey to oblige. Belliss, who is 34 years of age, has had a long and wonderfully fine career in big Rugby. He first came into prominence as a player in the N.Z. Army team in the Inter-Service tourney.at Homo in 1919,- and quickly earned a reputation as one of its best forwards. His subsequent reputation pntitled him to rank among the best players of this country, and he played 1 some great games against the Springboks, also against New South Wales, both in the Dominion and in Australia.

Belliss Las represented Wanganui on many occasions with credit to himself and the union, and his generalship many times has been the deciding factor. Belliss always played for the team rather than for* himself, and his unselfishness was characteristic of the man.

E. A. Belliss represented New Zealand in the King's Cup series in Britain in 1919, and also in South Africa later in that year. He was a N.Z. Rugby Union representative in 1920, 1921 and 1922 (captain in Australia).