N.Z. Player Chosen For Wallaby Tour

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30129, 13 May 1963, Page 18

N.Z. Player Chosen For Wallaby Tour

(N.Z Press Association—Copyright)

SYDNEY, May 12 The New Zealand provincial breakaway, G. Davis, formerly of Taurangi. has won selection in the Australian Rugby Unior. team to tour South Africa next month. J Thornett will lead the party of 30, which was announced today. It contains 16 Wallabies who toured New Zealand last year. Another international J O’Gorman, who was not available for the 1962 New Zealand tour, is also in the side The team includes four Queenslanders and one Victorian. The remaining 25 are all from New South Wales, including the New Zealand “migrant.” Davis Davis, a former AU BiacK trialist. settled in Sydney earlier this year and was selected after some outstanding displays Selection Criticised In Sydney last week there was criticism in some Rugby circles of the possibility Davis might be selected, then, after the tour, decided to return home to New Zealand Victoria's sole representative D Shepherd, one of the back row forwards, was born in Cheshire, England and settled in Australia when he was 17 J. Klem, a 20-year-old Hawkesbury Agricultural College student, won dramatic promotion from a second division club match into the Wallaby touring side in the space of five days. The only real surprise Is the selection of P, Ryan ahead of last veer’s Wallaby. S. Spence as the touring team's second sthtpff full-back to J. Lenehan The selectors have included J. Wolfe, who can play both

full-back and wing, as a protection against injury to Lenehan. who has had trouble with a knee. Doubtful Players Five other key players are doubtful because of injuries, and will have to prove their fitness by playing either on June 1 or for Australia in the test match against England in Sydney on June 4. Most doubtful are the halfback. K Catchpole, who captained the Wallabies on the short tour of South Africa in 1961, and the , prop forward. J Freedman Both have broken hand bones. Other test forwards, ft Heming and J. Miller, have ankle sprains, and the centre three-quarter. B. Ellwood. twice in recent weeks has broken down with a pulled hamstring muscle The side Is regarded as strong in forwards The inside backs are highly promising, but the wings are an unknown quantity and there is a worrying lack of goal-kickers. Most officials agreed the selectors have struck a fine blend between experience ano youth The team ts:— Full-backs: J. Lenehan. P Ryan. Wings: K. Walsham. J Boyce J. Wolfe. J. Williams Centres: B. Ellwood. P. Jones R. Marks, I. Moutray. Fiveeighths: P. Hawthorne. J. Klem. Half-backs: K. Catchpole, K McMullen. Forwards: —Baek row: P Crittle. G Davis. J. Guerasslmoff. E. Heinrich. J. O’Gorman. D. O’Neill. D. Shepherd Second row: R. Hemirig. J. Miller. J. Thornett (captain!. Front row: L. Austin B. Bailey, J. White. J. Freedman. Hookers: P. Johnson, M. Jenkinson.