WEAKENED SIDE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 231, 1 October 1935, Page 7

WEAKENED SIDE.

TOURING ALL BLACKS.

Manager Perturbed at Loss of

Key Men,

COLLINS LATEST CASUALTY

United Press Association. —Copyright.

(Received 10 a.m.)

LONDON, September 30

Owing to the fact that so many of the All Blacks arc injured, the manager of the touring team, Mr. V. R. Meredith, fears that he will be unable to announce the side to meet Gloucestershire and Somerset, at Bristol, on Thursday, until the day of the match. He is perturbed at the loss of key players —C. J. Oliver (centre), J. R. Page (five-eighths) and W. E. Hadley (hooker)—as well as the fact that there are five other casualties. The latest man to be placed on the casualty list is W. M. Collins, who has bruised a leg and has gone to Newport for treatment. Another reshuffle of the back line is expected for Thursday's game. THE SWANSEA MATCH. NEWSPAPER COMMENT. (Received 10.30 a.in.) LONDON, September 30. The "Manchester Guardian," in an editorial, stated that the All Blacks' match with Swansea showed that a first [ rate club side, accustomed to each other's individual ways, can at their best be more formidable than the best concentration of international talents. It will be well worth watching to see if any international sides can lower the All Blacks' colours as successfully as did Swansea.