LEAGUE FOOTBALL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 237, 7 October 1933, Page 16

LEAGUE FOOTBALL.

KANGAROOS' TOUR.

fikst test match.

CHANCES FOR TO-DAY

The Australian Rugby League touring team, which has created a favourable impression in England by carrying off the honours in all the eleven games so far played, meet England afc Belle Vue, Manchester to-day, and the result will be awaited with keen interest throughout the Empire. , „ Just prior to tlie opening of the tour, Joe Thompson, the famous inteinational forward, expressed the opinion that the Australian packmen on this occasion were very different to the-type usually fielded by that .country, were far sturdier and weightier, and Piobal > would meet with more success in L'lglaml tlian the long, ' rangy, bustling type. Yet he felt that England s Jest team pack would be superior, even though it vsould not have its own way m the hooking Regarding the backs, be thought that Thicknesse and Gilbert would ha\e a puil over English halves. The Australians might make up for slowness m the centre by clever team work. The English team announced for to-day contains only two new players horn the side which won the Ashes ni Ausaralia labt I season—these being Davies, the Castlefoid half-back, and Miller, a Warrington forward. With Sullivan at full-back and the Ellabv-Risman-Brogden-Smith three-quai tei line England will be strong, but Mr. Hany Sunderland, the Australian manager, is sure to have his team well tuned up ioi the big occasion.