OLD-TIME STARS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 169, 19 July 1930, Page 11

OLD-TIME STARS.

First Meeting Since 1908.

Their first meeting for 22 years. This was the experience of two football stars of other days in Georget Gillett, of Hamilton, and "Billy" Stead, of Invercargill, who came together at the railway station at Frankton yesterday afternoon, when the British team, with which Stead is travelling on Press work, passed through the Waikato Junction on their way north from Gisborne, via Rotorua. These fine players of a quarter of a century back were stalwarts in the ranks of Dave Gallalier's team which toured the United Kingdom in 1905. Three seasons • later, in the Test match against A. F. Harding's AngloWelsh side at Dunedin, which New Zealand won 32—5, Stead (five-eighth) and Gillett (wing-for,ward) played big roles in thte New Zealand' success. From that far-off day at the Carisbroolc Ground they had not met until a little over 24 hours ago.