POLICEMEN MEET ON ANOTHER BEAT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 179, 1 August 1939, Page 12

POLICEMEN MEET ON ANOTHER BEAT.

Outstanding Players In Last Saturday's Game. Two policemen who went to school together, grew up together, started football together, played for the South Canterbury representatives together, and then separated, met again after several years when North Auckland beat Auckland at Whangarei on Saturday. They were -Toe Gilmore, Auckland's stocky, red-headed front-row man. and Jack Callanan. the North Auckland breakaway. On the day they were two of the outstanding forwards on the ground. Callanan is the ideal stamp of representative forward. Six feet tall, weighing 14.2. he represented North Auckland for the first time and delighted the crowd by his exceptional speed in the loose. To those who knew his record, this pace was not surprising. Last year he was sent to Australia with the police athletic team, representing the Dominion as a 100 yds and 220 yds sprinter. He was a member of the winning relay team in the Australian championships. Joe Gilmore has not the speed of hie old school friend, but he has other attributes of tenacity and experience which make him one of the finest forwards in the North Island. On Saturday, despite the fact that he had paced a city beat the previous night from S p.m. to 5 a.m., and then travelled 120 miles in a bus, he was one of Auckland's three outstanding forwards. Towards the end of the frame, when obviously dead-tired, he had to take Bond's place as hooker. Though out of practice in the art. he easily beat the North Auckland man for the remainder of tho game. Callanan and Gilmore went to school together in Timaru and made the Sonth Canterbury representative team together. Gilmore has the better Rugby record of the two. He has represented South Canterbury, mid-Canterbury, AYellington and now Auckland. On present form he will probably be nominated by Mr. F. W. Lucas for the North Island fifteen.