RUGBY FOOTBALL

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 August 1929, Page 9

RUGBY FOOTBALL

TO-MORROW’S GAMES.

Two senior Rugby fixtures will be played on Victoria Park to-morrow, and one at Brunner. Kiwis and Blaketown should provide an interesting game, fast and possibly very even. Excelsiors, the leading team in the competition, will meet Stars, and this is expected to be one of the season’s most interesting games. Stars have improved steadily during the season, and may fully extend the southern side.

United and Brunner will play at Brunner, and should draw a good crowd from the country area. The Brunner team has been strengthened by the inclusion of several exMagpie players, which should make the game interesting. Junior games should all be worth watching. Kumara and Blaketown will play at Kumara, Cobden and United at Cobden at 3 p.m., and Brunner and Stars at the Park. Third and fourth grade fixtures complete a fine bill of Rugby fare. The following will represent Blaketown in their match with Kiwis tomorrow at Greymouth:—Pascoe, McEnaney, Negri, Lemin, Mason, Hannam, Bunt, Cooper, McDonald, Dimond Furness, Webster, Caulton, Scott, Lister, Sparks, Olsen, McEnaney. ' Blaketown juniors v. Kumara, at Kumara: D. Olsen, S. Hilton, R. Blacktopp, J. Masters, M. Moran, B. Smith, M. Preston, J. Reddington, T. Seebeck, C. Burghley, J. Miller, T. Bennett, Styress, H. Interman, Sparkes, S. Clark, T. Williams, D. Hogarth, S. McMinn, J. 'Collins, Richardson. Bus leaves 1.45 p.m. at Post Office. Stai* seniors to play Excelsiors at Greymouth are: —Dalkie, Brown, Fong, McNeill, Stevens, Holmes, Reynolds, Meredith, Talbot, Ellis, Fell, Wilson, Thompson, Rattray, Corcoran, Flaherty, Saunders, Seebeck. Star juniors to play Brunner are: Furness, Braithwaite, Cooper, McNabb, O’Donnell, Williams, Eatwell, Rodgers, Johnston, Haigh, Crumpton, Cairney, . Richardson, McGinley, Miller, Hibbs,,Robertson. The following will represent Brunner seniors to-morrow in their game against United at Brunner: —Spiers, C. King, Nash, Coom, Chamberlain, W. Bell, Gibbons, J. Bell, Wilde, Dunn, Mclntosh, Eader, Birss, Petrie, Hallinan. Wing forward, Ferguson. Emerg.: McKenzie and Lewis. The following will represent the United Seniors v. Brunner to be played at Dobson to-morrow (cars leave Post Office at 2.15): —Williams, Greer, Kennedy, Jamieson, Bunt, Jenkins, Walton, Fergusson, Dodson, Rodgers, O’Halloran Miller, A. Wilson, T. Wilson, McDonald, loins, Dennehy. United Juniors v. Cobden at Cobden, , 3 p.m. Players assemble at the Post Office at 2.ls:—Phillips, McKay, Bruce, ! Frew, Baldwin, Stevens, Guy, Ander- i son, Rathbun, Williams, Atchley, Hughes, Shuttleworth, Daly, Grooby, i Saunders.

United Thirds at Tech, 1.30 p.m.: — Phillips, Sloss, Turtill, Bell, Smith, Garth, Cooper, Kyle, Howson, Woollett, McKnight, Bowers, Drumgool, Kilpatrick Ellis. The following will represent Cobden Juniors against United at Cobden at 3 p.m.: Lindbom, Eggleton, King, Hayden, Gordon, Taaffe, Hyndman, Keith, Spark, Quigley, Wilson (2), Spencer, Mead, Anderson, Miller, Sexton.

INJURED PLAYER RULE. (Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright) SYDNEY, August 1. There is an agitation in Sydney Rugby Union circles to abolish the rule which permits a team to replace an injured player during the first half of the game. This occurred during the New Zealand-Australian recent matches, and is described in the Press as farcical, which states that it is not allowed by the English Rugby Union and should not be countenanced either in Australia or New Zealand. It is understood that Porter, captain of the All Blacks, does not approve of the replacement of injured men.