FRENCH RUGBY TOUR

Evening Star, Issue 17792, 14 October 1921, Page 8

FRENCH RUGBY TOUR

MEETING OF NEW ZEALAND UNION. TWENTY MATCHES IN AUSTRALASIA. The French Rugby tour was the subject of cliarp discussion at last night’s meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Union Management Committee. A meeting had ■been held in private on Tuesday night to arrange details, and Mr Dean asked the chairman to make available for the Press the conditions of the tour. The Chairman : You are out of order. Mr Wylie (treasurer) said it might prejudice the tour at this stage to publish details that had been sent to Paris for the consideration of the French Rugby Union. Mr Dean : We can impose no conditions other than on an amateur body. Mr Bailey: When they see the conditions it might bo a horse of another color. Mr Dean; The publication of the details of the Springbok tour saved a number of misunderstandings. The Chairman: You arc talking to the Press. After further discussion it was decided to make a brief statement to the Press that the French team will bo limited to twenty-five players, who will play twenty matches in Australia and New Zealand, including three teste in the Dominion. They will leave in April, and travel via Panama.