OTAGO TO TOUR

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 46, 23 August 1927, Page 9

OTAGO TO TOUR

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.")

<rw m x DUNEE)IN, This Day. The Otago. team for the North, with its principal matches against Canterbury, Wellington, and Auckland, is a better team than-it tray expected to get together ■ n a %¥, peeks', tbnr. . The weakness will probably Be in the forwards; and the: team/will puss the services of a good wm g .forward. The backs are strong on W^f an-M-l°v^ e cracks, Holden, Mitchell, Robs, Horsley, M'ClyS^VS Wel)k Stew^t, of Pirates, like Webb, on the wing, is particularly iast and a good scoring man. Stevenson is not available, and Heazlewood takes his place at full-back. ; Peterson, of Southern, » fast and a good all-ronnd three-ouarter, who will probably play centre. Wyhe fserum half) and Callendar are the emergencies. . The forward* are not a heavy lot; but include some keen players in Souter, Hindenach, Collett, Sonntag, Hore, and Finlayson The other forwards, which include two country players, are Marslin, doch Lawless» Stevens, and Mur-