REP. RUGBY

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 193, 30 July 1932, Page 7

REP. RUGBY

H.B. v. AUCKLAND TO-DAY’S MATCH AT HASTINGS. LARGE CROWD IN ATTENDANCE. Nelson Park, Hastings, was the Mecca of Hawke’s Bay Rugby patrons to-day when for the first time in the history of Interprovincial Rugby between Auckland and Hawke’s Bay, the annual representative match was played in Hastings. The early morning having broken fine hopes of a fairly dry area for the match were bright, and consequent upon this a good open game was anticipated. Long before the curtainraiser commenced there were a number of enthusiasts on the ground to secure the best positions offering outside the main stand, and as the time for the kick-off of the big match approached there was a continual stream of people making for the ground.

This match is the second home fixture of the season, and it is also the opening game of the northerners’ extensive southern tour, which embraces seven interprovincial matches. Another point of interest about the match is that the competition between tho two provinces now reaches its “majority,” to-day’s game being the twenty-first between the two unions. To date Auckland has won 12, Hawke’s Bay six and two have been drawn. Members of the Auckland team arrived in Hastings yesterday afternoon. They are under the management of Mr. F. Sutherland, sole selector of the Auckland Rugby Union, and a former prominent referee, who controlled the test matches with the Britishers in 1930.

Owing to a similarity of colours the Hawke’s Bay fifteen wore the Hastings Sub-Union colours, yellow and black, in contrast to blue and white of the tourists. The teams are as follow:— AUCKLAND. Full-back: Heazlewood Three-quarters; Milliken Comthwaite Pearson Five-eighths: Bei ridge Jamieson Half-back: Carter Back row: Drake Middle row: Potter Kahu Wiklund Williams Front row: A. Finlayson Hadley Newdick (captain) HAWKE’S BAY. Full-back: Varton. Three-quarters: C. Smith, Grant, Ayres. Five-eighths: Le Quesne, Bradley. Half-back: Lambie (captain) Back Row: C. Satherley. Middle How: Rolls, Reaney, Wilson, Large Front Row: Powdrell, Drummond, Flowers. CURTAIN-RAISER. In the curtain-raiser to the big match Hastings (9) beat Napier (6).