OTAGO'S TOURING TEAM
TWENTY-TWO PLAYERS
(By Telegraph.) (Special to the 'Evening Post.") ' DUNEDIN, This Day.
The .ptago Bugby team, which has won all Its five matchesso far this season, will be composed of most of the players who have taken part.in these games when it leaves next week for the north. Twenty-two players will be taken on the tour. Gillies, five-eighth, will not be able to travel to Auckland, but will be-available against Wellington and Canterbury. The forwards are on the light side, but are great workers, and with their speed are fast and dashing in the loose and follow up in a body. A. weakness, however, is their failure to get the ball in the scrum. The backs now have fine combination and are also very fast. With such players as Simon (half), Gillies and Martin (five-eighths), Procter, Smith, and Watt (three-quarters), and McFarland (full-back), the rearguard should give a good account of itself on tour. It is practically a UniversitySouthern back combination, the two leading teams of the season. McFarland, the full-back, is the find of the season.
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Evening Post, Issue 50, 27 August 1935, Page 17
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180OTAGO'S TOURING TEAM Evening Post, Issue 50, 27 August 1935, Page 17
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