RUGBY GIANTS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 16 December 1927, Page 5

RUGBY GIANTS

THE COMING TOUR. , ! GREAT TRIAL OF STRENGTH. SPRINGBOKS PREPARING. (Special to Press Association.) Received 9.30 a.m. to-day. CAPETOWN, Dec. Id. As the lour of til© Ail Blacks draws nearer, intense interest is being increasingly aroused, and it has already oeen predicted that none oi the South African grounds will be able to hold the crowds which are hoping to see xhc costs. Already applications are pouring into the Rugby Board from the remoted towns in the blaekveld.t. Leading Riugby experts are of the opinion that the All Black team is about the world’s strongest combination and strongest side ever picked against South Africa. , This view is confirmed in six column headings in today’s “Oape Times,” which asks whether the selection of the Springboks is to be by the selection committee or the captain. It is emphasised that the selection committee would naturally select tiie captain,, who in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred would invite the matured wisdom of the present most notable of the selection committee. Paddy Carotin, the international Springbok half-back, depreciates rite innovations and asserts: “We have a hard row fo- hoe, so let us carry on a,s we Lave done in the past and rely on the ability, of our representatives to win through. We are entering the greatest trial of strength wo have ever undertaken and special endeavours must be made to select the team at the earliest date. If we fail, it will be because we are beaten, by a better side.”