GENERAL NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 135, 10 June 1933, Page 20

GENERAL NOTES

Collins, the Taranaki full-back who went to Australia with the-All Black team last year, fractured a bone- in his leg when playing against Wanganui on the King's Birthdayy. ;:. v ! ■■■ ; It :is .doubtful whether A. 0/ Proctor, &e;;ptago; 'and ;'New" r!vZealand threequarter, will be-seen in action again this season/ He is compelled., to rest

oh account'of injuries, ift J ;: MiLe'od,' of" King Country, is stated to be a realty fine-full-back. It is reportedi from Hamilton that he was the outstanding man on the field, and played like a champion in the King Country-Waikato match. , . : Waikatb -has applied, for ;a .match with" the Hawke's Bay Itugby, team on its way to or from Auckland, but the Hawke's-'Bay Union-has decided that it cannot meet the.request. ''

Mr. J. C. Dow, a prominent figure in Poverty Bay Rugby football' and cricket, has been transferred to Wellington. At a farewell in Gisborne, Mr. O. S. Burt, on behalf of the Poverty Bay Bugby Uniony.said that Mr. Dow was probably one of the best examples in Gisborne of a true all-round sport.' For some considerable time he had been secretary of the H. 5.0.8. Football Club. ■

A spectator whoso enthusiasm proved too much for him attempted to take part in a rather willing melee among the players in the Horotiu v. Railway senior Bugby match on Saturday .afternoon (says the "Waikato Times"). ; When the referee stopped the ganie and ordered tho belligerent one to retire, the latter issued a pugilistic challenge to "all and sundry, including the referee, and withdrew to the side-line.

A "gift try" was almost awarded, to a senior Rugby football team at the Morrinsvillo Recreation Ground on Saturday, states, the Morrinsyille paper. While both teams we;rfl scrambling for the ball on the tweniy-fiye-yard line the referee blew his whistle ancl - criod, "Try allowed." Then • somebody reminded him that it was only.-the tweh-ty-five-yard line. ' - . ■

George Nepia, the famous Maori fullback in the 1924 All Black team,: is working hard on his farm: at'- Wairoa. People who have inspected properties in that locality of late declare that the Rugby champion has his farm looking in splendid order. Nepia intends playing again this season, and is reported, to have stated his intention of keeping'fit in view of the next tour to Great Britain "three years hence, states the Napier "Daily Telegraph.'*

' The attendance of 7000 at Spriggens Park, Wanganui, for the annual match against-Taranaki on June 3 was a record for the fixture, the previous highest being in 1928.