RUGBY.
Hawke’s Bay, according to authoritative reports, may he without its star five-eights when its representative tootball team files on to the field during coming season, and certainly the repre tentative- -side will be minus its chainpion hooker. ' A. E. Cooke, the shining star of the Hawke’s Bay rearguard, and one of the finest five-eights the o-ame has ever seen, is at present employed in a soft goods shop in Napier (says the Telegraph), but it is highly probable that lie may shoitly be* leming lor Masterton, as he is at present _ in ■negotiation with a view of starting operations on his own in the Y\ a irarapa. Another absentee from the Hawke’s Bay team this year will b© W • R. Irvine, the big hooker. The frontranker lias now left the farm which he was running at Onga Onga, Central Hawke’s Bay,, and is now in the stock-dealing line at Martinborongh, Wairarapa.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 23 February 1927, Page 3
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152RUGBY. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 23 February 1927, Page 3
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