RECRUIT TO RUGBY

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32522, 4 February 1971, Page 22

RECRUIT TO RUGBY

Lions wing in Aust. (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) SYDNEY. The Scottish and British Lions wing, S. Hinshelwood, is to play for the Gordon club in this year’s Sydney Rugby competition, the Sydney “Morning Herald” reported yesterday. Hinshelwood, aged 28, arrived in Australia a week ago with his New Zealand-born wife, and will begin training next week with Gordon, the 1969 Sydney champion. The newspaper said that Hinshelwood, one of the world’s best Rugby wingers, would be eligible to play for Australia this season against touring British and South African sides.

A player of his talent would be almost impossible to overlook when picking an Australian test side, the paper added. Hinshelwood, who toured Australia with the Lions in 1966, was invited to join the Gordon club when officials heard he was considering moving to Australia. Hinshelwood has taken a job with an international computer company.

Kirton now Harlequin (N.Z.P.A. Staff Correspondent) LONDON. E. W. Kirton, the 29-year-old All Black first five-eighths has arrived in London and is to play Rugby for the Harlequins club for the next two years. . Kirton will- be taking up a dental fellowship with the Royal College of Surgeons. At Harlequins, Kirton will partner N. Starmer-Smith, England’s scrumhalf for all matches last season, but who has been dropped this season to make way for a kicking half, J. Page.