RUGBY

Evening Star, Issue 17766, 14 September 1921, Page 3

RUGBY

THE DECIDING TEST. NAMES WITHHELD TILL THE DAY. The great demand for seating accommodation at the test match on Saturday indicates that interest in the event is likely to exceed all previous experiences. The seats in the stand (reports a Wellington telegram) have all been taken up, likewise those on the temporary stands and on chairs, while the tickets for seats on forms are now exhausted. All arrangements are well in Land, and were finally discussed at last night’s meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Union Management Committee. Apart from the big match, thre curtainraisers are arranged— a schoolboys match, Auckland and Victoria University teams, and King Country v. Wellington B representatives. • Both teams are in training— the- New Zealanders at Day’s Bay and the Springboks at Island Bay. ' A pressman was informed that the names of those selected to play on Saturday would not be available until the morning of the match. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE REPRESENTATION. PRESIDENT N.Z.R.U. MAY RESIGN. Something approaching a crisis has been reached through the threat of Mr M'Leod, president of the New Zealand Rugby Union, to resign owing to his not being a delegate to the conference with the South African and New South Wales delegates on the general condition of the game. Correspondence %ns tabled at last night’s meeting of the Management Committee. The chairman (Mr Sladff) wrote Mr M'Leod offering him the presidency of the conference, without right to participate in the deliberations. Mr M'Leod replied saying he would resign if the decision was not reversed. Mr Slade replied saying that the president had a misconception of his duties, and adding that the New Zealand delegates should be Messrs Slade (Wellington), Howe (Wellington), and Frost (Auckland),'the last-named being elected so as to he spokesman to the Auckland proposal to amend the rules. Mr M'Leod sent a lengthy reply denying the suggestion of interfering in the management, and quoting his experience and international representation of the game as qualifying him to have a seat as a delegate, „ The Canterbury and Auckland Unions wrote supporting Mr M'Leod’s nomination. Mr Slade said he had offered to withdraw from the conference in favor of Mr M'Leod, but that did not suit the latter, whose trouble was that he had not been nominaj^d. The ensuing discussion was favorable to tho action of the Management Committee, and it was decided to receive Mr M'Leod’s letter.