ALL BLACKS' TOUR

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 85, 9 April 1924, Page 6

ALL BLACKS' TOUR

POSITION OF MANAGER

THE AMENDED RULE,

(BI TELEGRAPH.— SPECIAL TO THH POST.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Auckland's Kugby officials are not advancing the claims of anyone in particular for the' position oE manager of the All Black team. Mr. Harry Frost, who intended to leave last night, to attend the New Zealand Union's annual, meeting, informed a "Post" representative that lie would not dream of being a candidate for the position with no allowance to players, but there were other reasons why l\e could not make the trip. -Another Aucklander, who would, undoubtedly, be an ideal man to act as manager of the team, is Mr. V. R. Meredith. He holds an important Government position, and, possibly, that accounts for" his claims not being advanced ; but it is not unlikely that if pressure were brought to bear in the right quarters by those who regard Mr. Meredith' as a man well fitted to carry out the important duties attaching to the managership of the team, the way | might be made clear for him to accept i nomination. In any. case, Mr. Meredith j should not be overlooked in the matter of selecting the New Zealand team. He is fully qualified for that task, and if he could afford the time to :vjc\v all ■ the tria^ matches, his choice of New Zealand's representatives should give general satisfaction. ■ ■■ . Regarding Wellington's proposal that the amended kick-into-touch rule be dropped this season", Mr. Frost said Auckland would strongly object to any change, but he considered that the New Zealand Union's suggection that the All .biacks play a match under, the old rules was the only reasonable way of getting over the position facing the coming tour in regard to rules of play. "We see ho "i°i "i hIL S!U' d' "for S°inS back to the old rules, xhe advantages of the amended rulo have been proved beyond doubt Anyone who says anything different is wedded to tho old rules or thinks it unconstitutional to make, a change. There seems to be a mistaken impression down JsonJi that Auckland wants to force the' rules down their throats." Mr. Frost said Auckland had fried them, and, finding them good, wanted others to benefit He did not suggest that the new rules were correct, but they had' done a lot ot good.