RUGBY LEAGUE

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25299, 26 September 1947, Page 3

RUGBY LEAGUE

ALLEGATIONS AGAINST SYDNEY TEAM / MANAGER CLAIMS TO HAVE COMPLETE ANSWER (N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) (Rec. 7 p.m. ) SYDNEY, Sept. 23. The manager of the Canterbury-Banks-town Rugby League football team (Mr B. Russell) says that he has a complete answer to charges made against members of the team in Brisbane, where they were beaten by 60 points to 2, in a game de- , scribed as “a travesty of football.'” Other New South Wales clubs, St. George and Newcastle, have telegraphed to the Brisbane Rugby League guaranteeing that their men will behave themselves in Brisbane when they visit Queensland next week. Allegations that some of the Can-terbury-Bankstown players were drunk on the field will be the subject of a full inquiry.

USE OF UNION GROUND BY N.Z. TEAM

ILKLEY CLUB APPEALS AGAINST REFUSAL (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, Sept. 24. Mr J. Brumfitt, president of the Ilkley Rugby Union Club, at a civic reception at Ilkley to the New Zealand Rugby League team, said that the club had specially appealed to the Rugby Union to rescind its decision not to allow the tourists to use the Ilkley ground for training. “I am sure that 95 per cent, of Rugby Union players entirely agree with the club’s Intention of lending the New Zealanders the ground,” he said. “We regard their tour as an Empire matter. If the New Zealanders were good enough to fight for the Mother Country they are good enough to use our local ground.” A meeting on the subject has been arranged for Friday, in London. The New Zealand team for the opening game against St. Helens to-morrow will be chosen from W. S. Clark, Forrest, McGregor, Mclnnarney, Jordan, Robertson, R. Clark, Graham, Barchard, Haig, Smith, Davidson, Johnson, Hancox, Mcßride, Newton, and Hardwick. In the Yorkshire Cup competition, second leg, Bradford Northern beat Leeds, 11-9.

LINWOOD CLUB Senior team plays Marist, Athletic Park, 1.30 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 27.—J. O’Neil, K. Smith, J. Smith, N. Waghorn, A. Clark, D. Aldred, A. Greening, L. E. Brown, R. E. Brown, R. Ward, E. Falgar, G. Nuttall, G. O’Neil, B. Berry. Advt.

Toy Manufacturers.—Mr H. J. Underwood, of New Plymouth, has been elected president of the newlyformed New Zealand Toy Manufacturers’ Federation, and Mr A. H. Christiansen has been elected vicepresident.— (P.A.)