ALL BLACKS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 117, 21 May 1925, Page 5

ALL BLACKS

EXCLUSION FROM THIS YEAR'S TEAM

COMMENT IN ENGLAND.

(DNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPIKIOnT.)

(AVSCRAIUS-SEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

(Received 21st May, 9.30 a.m.)

LONDON, 20th May. The " Daily Telegraph," commenting on the fact that the All Blacks who toured England have been excluded from the team which is visiting New South Wales,-says: "The question arises whether the New Zealand Rugby League team will contnin any of them> as it is rumoured that had arrangements for the coming tour been conducted by the New South Wales League instead of by the New Zealand League, an effort would have been made to secure the services of several of the All Blacks." The writer adds that a member of the Management Committee of the New South Wales Rugby League is now in NewZealand completing arrangements for the New Zealanders' tour, and 1 no doubt some effort will be made to include some of the All Blacks in the Rugby League side.

Representatives of the League code have approached members of the All Black team which visited England lust year, but no success-has attended their efforts. Members of the team were sounded about the matter when they were on tour in Britain, but each has declared his intention to retain his amateur status as a Rugby Union player. Leading New Zealand officials of "the amateur code declare that there is no possibility of any of the 1924 All Blacks being included in the League touring team. b