RUGBY FOOTBALL

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 July 1937, Page 11

RUGBY FOOTBALL

TO-MORROW’S ATTRACTION. After a break of two Saturdays, on account of representative fixtures, the West Coast Rugby Union's competitions will be resumed to-morrow afternoon. The absence of three leading players, G. Gilbert, M. Scandrett and R. R. King, who will be taking part in the All Black trials in Wellington. may have a bearing on the results of matches. The principal attraction at. Rugby Park will be the meeting of Stars and United on the No. 1 ground. On the No. 2 ground at the Park, Blaketown and Cobden seniors should provide an equallj close game. Celtic will meet Kiwis seniors at. Hokitika, Excelsiors and Pirates play at. Hokitika, and Ross and Kumara meet at Ku,mara. The curtain-raiser at Rugby Park will be played between Blaketown and Cobden thirds, who drew, at their last meeting. Other matches will be played at Cobden, and at Te Kinga. The broadcast of the first trial match and the Inter-Island match at Wellington, will be re-broadcast, through a loud-speaker, at. Rugby Park. TEAMS FOR TO-MORROW. Star seniors: Martyn; Mann. Noonan. Logie; Murphy. Connolly; Innes; Dowling. Walsh, Hynes. Bailey. Hammond, Stewart, Peggie, Learmont, Buchanan. Patterson, Long, Fitzgerald. Star juniors: Spark, Webber, Mtnchin, August; Dittman, Bennett, R. Minchin. Divers, Wilson, Barron. Henderson, Jackson. Webber. Watson, Ramsay, Muir, McPherson, Mills and Sheppard. • Star thirds: Lowe, Coles, McLaughlin, Cranksliaw, Hayes, Zampesi, Clark, Quinn, Baker, Jones, Arnott, Henderson, McLennan, W'ilson, Holmes (2), Lewis, Shannon, and Dixon.

Blaketown seniors:— Forstner, Pedrotti, Furness, Elder, Olsen (2), Dunn, Stewart, Harrington, Scandrett, Daly, Pascoe, Bruhn. Shepherd, Eyeington, Hogarth, Quartermain. Blaketown juniors to play Te Kinga (meet Union Hotel 1.15): —Uadcroft, Shannon, Wafer, ,J. Brown, Preston. Manchester, Diamond, Flemming, Cochrane, F. Goodail, Garth. Cameron, E. Brown. Millett, Sandman, Gibson, P. Davis.

Blaketown thirds v. Cobden, at Park, 1.30: —Gifkins, McHugh. Ross, Straker, McDonald, Markland, Watson. Panther, Lawry, Batty, Smith, Kent. Tascoe, Leach, McKendry (2), Mathieson, Lamont, McGirr. Celtic seniors (bus leaves P.O. 1 p.m.—Heaphy. Davis, McGinley, Reid, .James, Clancy, Collins, Honey, (2), O’Connor, O'Connell, Maughan, Shaffrey, Dudley, Cullen, Rae. Celtic, juniors l v. Kiwi (meet Railway station 12.30):—Clancy, McNamara, Dully, Berridge, McDonnell, Christie, Shaffrey, Hibbs, Doyle, Hansbury, Russ. Wilson, McLennan, Kennedy, Sweetman, Shuker. Cobden seniors v. Blaketown, Rugby Park: —Stains. Lindbom (2), Vaughan, Gilmour. King (2), Eggleton, Kiely, Kirkwood, Thompson, Spencer, Moss, Owensworth. Birchfield, Manning, Barlow, Naisbet. Meet Australasian 2.30 p.m. Cobden juniors v. Kumara at Cobden, 3 p.m.—Clark, Allen, Gilmour, Hector, Keddie. Boucher, Willis, McMillan, Burn, Griffiths, Rankin, Watkins, Newton, Jackson, Cook. Cobden thirds v. Blaketown, Rugby Park.—Pike, Groufsky, Culling, Stewart, Vaughan, McSherry, Sorrensen. Dowell, McGuire, Pentecost, Burrell (2), Gibson, Wilson, Brown, Morrison, Devlin. Skeats. Meet Park 1 p.m. United teams:—Seniors: Adams Kibble, Polson, Calwell, Hendry, Costello, Vincent, Hopkinson, Grooby, Rose, Blair, Glen, Ironside, Molloy, Daly, Robinson, Rathbun. Juniors: Chipman, Ogilvie, Bansgrove, Howson, Garde, Ashby, Hamilton, Whibley, Smith. Swift, Bellis Howard, Haglund, Denton, Wotherspoon. Thirds v. Stars, at Cobden, 1.30: — Dewar, Nott. Leitch, Thomas. Rae (2), Beck, Conza, Bellis, Lewis, Batty, McKenzie, Naylor, Lovdll, Morrish, McCarthy, Williams, Sumner. Ramsay, Groom, Bennett. TRIAL MATCHES The programme of trial matches at Wellington is as follows: — To-morrow—l.ls p.m., Possibles v. Probables: 2.45 p.m., North Island v. South Island. Monday, July 12—Two New Zealand trials. 1.15 and 2.45 p.m. I Wednesday, July 14—Two Now Zealand trials. 1.15 and 2.45 p.m. Saturday. July 17—1.15 p.m., Now Zealand trial; 2.15 p.m., best New Zealand side v. The Rest.