RUGBY FOOTBALL

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 June 1937, Page 12

RUGBY FOOTBALL

TO-MORROW’S ATTRACTIONS. The West Coast Rugby Union’s club competitions will he resumed to-mor-rpw, when the principal attraction at Rugby Park will be the match between United seniors and Pirates. United have a splendid set of backs, and' they can be expected to turn on plenty of bright football. Pirates have a good record, and a habit of upsetting the best. On the No 2 ground at the Park, Stars and Cobden seniors will meet, Stars making their first appearance on the Park since their four League recruits have joined up. Blaketown meet Ross at Ross, Kiwis play Kumara at Kumara, and Celtic will meet Excelsiors at Hokitika.

The junior fixtures will be:—Te Kinga v. Stars at the Park, Blaketown v. Celtic at Omoto, and Cobden v. United at Cobden. ALTERATION IN FIXTURES An alteration has been made in the Rugby fixtures for Saturday. The Star v. Cobden senior game, set down for the No. 1 ground at Rugby Park, at 1.30 p.m., will now be played at 3 o’clock on the No. 2 ground. The junior game, Te Kinga v. Stars, will now be played on the No. 1 ground at 1.30 p.m.

WEEK-END TEAMS

United seniors v. Pirates: Adams, Kibble, Gilbert, Calwell, Costello, Hendry, Vincent, Rathbun, Hopkinson, Ironside, Rose, Dixon, Glen, Molloy, Daly, Blair, Robinson, Grooby. United juniors v. Cobden at Cobden, 3 p.m.: Chipman, Haglund, Davis, Whibley, Swift, Smith, Howard, Wotherspoon, Bellis, Denton, Rathbun, Howson, Bansgrove, Garth. United thirds v. Celtic: Lewis, McCarthy, Leitch, Lovell, Dewar, Nott, Rea, McKenzie, Conza, Fagerlund, Rea, Thomas, Williams, Batty, Bellis, Naylor, Bennett, O’Brien. Cobden seniors v. Stars, at Park: Staines, Lindbom (2), Vaughan, Gilmour, Eggleton, King, Kiely, Kirkwood, Thompson, Spencer, Birchfield, Moss, Watkins, King, Manning, Barlow. \ Meet Australasian at 2.30.

Cobden juniors v. United at Cobden: Clarke, Allan, Speakman, Hector, Gilmour, Keddie, Boucher, Willis, McMillan, Burr, Rankin, Newton, McLaughlin, Griffiths, Jackson, Cook, McPherson. Meet Cobden 2.30. Cobden thirds v. Stars, at Cobden: Groufsky, Vaughan, Pike, Lowry, Sorrensen, Dowell, Pentecost, Burrell (2), Morrison (2), Wilson, Brown, Rothwell, Skeats, Watkins. Meet Cobden 1 p.m. Star seniors: Martyn, Logie, Noonan, Connelly, Mann, Hopkins, Innes, Patterson, Walsh, Hynes, Dowling, Hammond, Stuart, Learmont, Long, O’Hara, Murphy, Alderton. Star thirds: Baldock, Shannon, Hill, McLaughlin, Lewis, Coles, Orr ( Zampese, Crankshaw, Hays, Dixon, Clark, Jones, Baker, Quinn. Henderson, McLennan, Holmes (2), Arnott, Wilson. Star juniors, Rugby Park, 1.30: Spark, Minchin, McPherson, Bennett, Dittman, Webber, Minchin, Mills, Muir, Barron, Hogarth, Webber, Ramsay, Jackson, Divers, Henderson, Wilson, Sheppard. Celtic seniors: Heaphy, Reid, McGinley, Davis, Collins, Clancy, James, Honey (2), Dudley, Cullen, O’Connell, O’Connor, Shaffrey, Maughan, Rea. Celtic juniors: Berridge, Duffy, McNamara, McDonnell, Christie. Clancy, Shaffrey, Hibbs, Doyle, Hansbury, Russ, Kennedy, McKechnie, McLennan, Beechey, Wilson. Celtic thirds: McGuire, Browne, Horrock, Quinlan, Sweetman, Bond, Taylor, Blake, Wasley, Malone, Johnston, Shuker, Rea, Culling, Bierne. Blaketown juniors: Kroening, E. Brown, Davis, Sandman, Currie, Millett, Cameron, Garth, Goodall, Shannon, Hadcroft, Wafer, Fleming, Firth, G. Brown, Preston, Cochrane and Dimond.

Blaketown seniors v. Ross: Olsen, Elder, Pedrotti, Furness,. Minchin, Stewart, Forstner, Scandrett (2), Daly, Bruhn, Pascoe, Scott, Hogarth, Eyeington, Shepperd, Harrington and Dunn. ’Bus leaves Union Hotel 1 p.m.

Kumara Seniors v. Kiwis: McNabb (2), Rochford (2), Taaffe, Graham, Fletcher, Hamilton, McDonald, Sinclair, Stanway, Beadsmore, Becker, Ryan, Mathews, Ogilvie, Donald. Star Thirds v. Cobdeif: Baldock, Coles, Orr, Zampezi. Hayes, Clark, Quinn, Bajter, Jones, Holmes (2), Henderson, McLennan. Arnott, Dixon, Crankshaw, Lewis, Shannon, Hill.

SPRINGBOKS V. VICTORIA

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MELBOURNE, June 10.

Rugby supporters in Victoria are eagerly awaiting the match between Victoria and the Springboks on Saturday. The visitors have been training hard since their arrival in the coldest weather Melbourne has had for two years.

The South African team for Saturday was chosen this evening as follows: —Full-back, G. Brand; threequarters, P. Lyster, J. Bester, S. Hofmeyer, J. Broodryk; five-eighth, D. van der Vyver; .scrum half. D. Craven; forwards. AL Louw, J. Lotz, M. Van der Berg, P. J. Nel, L. Strachan, AA'. Bastard, and B. du Toit.