PORTER INJURED

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 284, 27 August 1930, Page 13

PORTER INJURED

No Southern Trip

BROKEN RIB Wellington Rugby Losses Having received a broken rib while playing in the Auckland-Welling ton Rugby match on Saturday, C. G. Porter,' the club captain, will be unable to accompany the Wellington representatives on their southern tour. Porter’s absence will be a distinct loss to the side, as the Wellington captain is in fine form this season, and his generalship will also be missed. His place will be filled by Price, of tho Eastbourne club. In Porter’s absence. M. Nicholls will captain the team, and Wellington is fortunate in having such an experienced and able leader to take the helm. During the New Zealand team’s unbeaten tour of Great Britain in 1924, Nicholls was dubbed “the brains of the All Blacks,” and, as’ captain of the Petone team, winners of the senior A championship in Weliingt ; this season, he has shown outstanding generalship, which has had much to do with his team’s success, IT. D. Kilby, half-back, and L. K. Heazlewood, full-back, both Wellington representative Rugby players, have received notice of their transfer to Dunedin. Neither will play again this season in Wellington, though they will leave with the representative team tonight and will play in the matches against Otago and Southland, the latter being a Ranfurly Shield game. Heazlewood played in the Otago representative team before he was transferred to Wellington, and Kilby, in addition to obtaining All Black honours, has played in Southland, Taranaki and Wanganui. Otago Team Chosen By Telegraph.—Press AssociationDunedin, August 25. The following will represent Otago against Wellington at Carisbrook on Saturday:— Backs: Lindsay, McSkimming, Giles, Wilson, Fookes, Bradanovich, Loder. Forwards: Hore, Stitchbury, Finlayson, Sonntag, Allan, Christie, Miller, Laing. -Emergencies;—Backs; Proctor and Prebble. Forwards: Lucy and Jackson.

JUNIOR RUGBY Canterbury-Wellington Match The Wellington Rugby Union last evening accepted September 6 as a date for playing a junior representative match, Canterbury v. Wellington. The Marist Club was granted permission to send its intermediate team to Palmerston North to play the St. Patrick’s Club third grade team as a curtain-raiser to the final of the senior grade championship there.