RUGBY FOOTBALL

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25590, 3 September 1948, Page 5

RUGBY FOOTBALL

DRAWN GAME AT WESTPORT BULLER AND SOUTHLAND SUB-UNIONS From Our Own Reporter WESTPORT. September 2. With seven of its regular team not playing, Buller held the touring Southland Sub-Union team to a draw, 3-3, in an uninspiring game at Westport to-day. Conditions were ideal for good football, but the display of the touring team against their opponents was not up to second-grade standards. On occasions the visitors showed dash and with an occasional touch of combined work their backs were unlucky not to score. The solid defence of Dickson, Smallholme, and P. Neighbours held them out, however. For Buller, Dickson kicked a penalty goal from 40 yards out. McDonald scored Southland’s try, after a grand passing rush which began at half-way. N.Z. RAILWAYS TRIAL POSSIBLES V. PROBABLES The final trial in the South Island before the selection of the South Island railway team to meet North Island at Napier on September 18 will be played at the Showgrounds on Sunday. The Possibles team has been chosen from the Canterbury, West Coast, Buller, and Nelson districts, and the Probables from Otago. Southland, and districts. Several interprovincial and senior club players are included in both teams The teams will be.*— Possibles.—B. Flynn (West Coast); H. Kowi (Canterbury), C. Bradley (Ashburton), D. Lucas (West Coast); T. Hogwood (Canterbury), N. Mitchell (Canterbury); S. Dewar (West Coast); G. Parkinson (Nelson), H. Metrick (West Coast), S. Maurice-Jenkins (Marlborough), E. Cosgrove (Otira), G. Lamberton (West Coast); G. Leggett (West Coast); W. Woodham (Canterbury), R. Thompson (West Coast). Emergencies: N. Royfield (Canterbury), L. Kearns (West Coast); O. Gear, M. Grayburn. Probables.—L. Todd (Otago); W. F. McNichol (Southland), D. Walshe (Southland). I. Macintosh (Otago); G. Baraba (Otago), L. Lawrence (Otago); L. Gunn (Otago); N. Munnings (Southland); W. H. Muir (Southland). A. Murphy (Otago), H. Budd (Southland). G. Turner (Southland), W. Muirhead (Southland), C. Hunt (Otago), A. Stevens (Otago). Emergencies: D. Gorton, T. Renolds (Otago), J. Henderson (Otago), O. Hicks (Southland), D. Munro (Otago).