Sydney trip for Smith, Davie
Two of Canterbury’s more promising young rugby players, Wayne Smith and ■Murray Davie, will get an early taste of top competition this season. Subject to approval by the Australian and New Zealand unions,' the pair will play for a President’s XV against a Sydney team in a festival match in Sydney on Easter Saturday. The organisers of the match have requested six New Zealand players and Canterbury was asked to provide a first five-eighths and a prop. Smith and Davie were the respective choices of the Canterbury selectors, j The approach" from Aus- 1
iltralia was made to Mr R. W. .'.Thomas, of the Canterbury 11 union, and Mr Thomas said 11 yesterday that it just re--Iquired the names to be (cleared by the appropriate *,authorities. He foresaw' no i| obstacles in this regard. r| Smith, who earlier this i;week was named as the Belli fast senior captain this year, •■came into the Canterbury (side midway through last : winter and turned out to be : the' team’s best back. Davie has played just six games for Canterbury in the two years he has been in the representative squad, the proIvince’s surfeit of All Black ‘props hindering his progress.
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