AGES AND WEIGHTS

Evening Post, Issue 12, 14 July 1936, Page 9

AGES AND WEIGHTS

COMMENT ON TEAM

"GREAT POSSIBILITIES"

(Received July 14, 11 a.m.)

SYDNEY, This Day.

The seven Waratahs in the Australian Jlugby team for New Zealand are McLean, Kelaher, Hodgson, Bridle, White, Cerutti, and Bonis. Bridle, Cerutti, and Bonis were members of the last Australian team to tour New Zealand in 1931.

The average age of the players is 234 years and the average weight 12st 131b. The backs average 23 years and list 101b, and the forwards 24 years and 14st lib. Hutchinson, who is 18, is the youngest, and Bonis, 28, is the oldest member of the team. Gibbons, lOst 41b, is the lightest, and White, 15st 121b, the heaviest of the players.

The "Sydney Morning Herald" says: "It is a team of great possibilities, and from the twenty-five players there can be chosen fifteen who will comprise a side possessing soundness, speed, and dash. Some of the older players have had to fight hard to win places in Test combinations, so promising are the colts."

Sid King, writing in the "Daily Telegraph," says: "It is probably the strongest team from here ever to visit New Zealand. The team will not lack for loose forwards, and it is hoped that the hard-rucking brigade will be equal to the massed onslaughts of the New Zealand packs." .

C. L. Brown, writing in the "Labour Daily," says: "The team is strong in all positions and, should New Zealand regain possession of the Bledisloe Cup, It will be a tribute to the strength o* the All Blacks."

The selectors on the tour' will bi> the captain, vice-captain, and manager The team will sail by the Aorangi on August 13. The players and thrmanager will not be allowed to writ*' newspaper articles.