SELECTING ALL BLACKS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 5 October 1927, Page 11

SELECTING ALL BLACKS.

THE FINAL TRIAL. TO-DAY’S BIG MATCH.

The final Rugby trial of the series in which -p-layens are contending the honour of wearing the Silver Fern during the tour ui South Africa next season was staged at Athletic Park, Wellington, to-day, When the New Zealand Possibles fifteen took the field against a .Probables side. Play commenced at 3.1 b o’clock.

A wireless message broadcast just before the game opened advised that the teams were as -selected after the conclusion of Saturday’s North v. South Island game. Lucas captained the Possibles and Porter led the Probables. Taranaki is represented in the Probables team by H. AY. Brown as centre three-quarter and P. Ward on the side of the iserum. The weather i:s cold hut fine, and the ground is described ais being in perfect order, the- only handicap to players being a strong northerly wind. The attendance is estimated at 12,000. The Probables won the toss, and played with the wind. In the first two minutes Ward’s name was called over the air as he broke from U midfield line-out his da-sii being stopped when a supporter knocked on and a few seconds later Brown came into the picture with a- cut in to turn a Possibles attack and put play in neutral territory. Play had been in progress seven minutes when a Possibles forward rush resulted in a try by the Auckland forward McWilliams, which Butler was unable to convert, the wind -sending the ball a few feet wide. Possibles 3 Probables 0

Up to the time- the “Star” went to press no further score wa-s- announced.

POSSIBLES v. PROBABLES

(IJY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, Oct, 5. Another brilliant day promises to favour the Possibles v. Probables match, though there is more breeze than on Saturday. Wellington looks like being la-rgly on holiday, a-iul a very big -attendance is certain.