BAY OF PLENTY XV. TACKLES AUCKLAND HERE TO-MORROW.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 206, 30 August 1940, Page 12

BAY OF PLENTY XV. TACKLES AUCKLAND HERE TO-MORROW.

Having beaten Waikato (twice). King Country. Hawke's Bay (at Napier). Northland and Tanmaki. Mr. F. W. Lucas" Auckland fifteen will to-morrow meet Bay of Plenty in the final home representative; game of the season. The only remaining fixture is that against Wellington at Athletic Park on September 14. Several changes have been made in the Bay fifteen which was beaten 17—6 by Waikato at Tauranga, chiefly the replacement of Skinner (Rotorua) as full-buck by Francis (Rangitaiki). Although a former representative, the latter is playing his first Bay of Plenty game this season. Then there is the inclusion of Mihaere and Liudrunt, who. with Moore, proved a fine attacking combination for Opotiki in the llurunui Shield games. Morrison, Delamore and Carter are also playing their first games. The team generally is considered in the Bay to be a sound combination. The forwards are heavy ana fairly fast, while the backs should prove a strong attacking rearguard, although the strength of their defence remains to be proved on Saturday. Colinore-Williams will bo back on the right wing in place of J. Molloy, otherwise the Auckland fifteen will be the same as that which defeated Taranaki last Saturday. The curtain-raiser will be the third grade final between Grammar and Suburbs. Fifteens selected :— Bay of Plenty.—Full-back, C. Francis • three-quarters'. C. Goosman, S. (Morrison, R. Lees; five-eighths. Mihaere, Moore: halfback, is. Lcudrum (captain) ; back row, M. Delamere : second row. Carter, Rauwero Whitely. Hughes; front row, Bell, Mathieson, Reube. Reserves : Backs. M. Lees, Rayment; forwards, Butler, Phillips. Auckland.—Full-back, W. Hare; threequarters, L. Schubert, A. Wiles, L. Colmore Williams; five-eighths. N. Pearman (captain), R. H. Barlow: half-back, P. L. Tetzlaff; front row, R. R. Hull (vice-captain). A. Johnson, J. Gilmour; second row, D Ryan, H. Priest. J. Barry, W. Smith • back row, D. Mills. Reserves: Backs, J. Molloy A. S. Couglilan; forwards, M. Kelson j Bourke, A. Moffitt. ' "