THE RUGBY WORLD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 256, 28 September 1932, Page 9

THE RUGBY WORLD

AMONG THE PLAYERS. (By “Cross Bar.”)

The South African Rugby team which toured Argentina won all of its seven matches. Poneke, winners of the Wellington Rugby championship meet the leading Auckland club on Saturday, for the benefit of the dependants of the late B. P. Palmer, All Black forward. C. A. Satherley, Hawke’s Bay forward, who played for Hawke’s Bay against Manawhenua in Palmerston North, is returning to Auckland. He was an Auckland representative before he went to Hawke’s Bay. The reason why A. C. (“Johnny ) Wallace has been playing Rugby League football this year is that there is no Rugby Union football in the part of New South Wales in which the old “Waratah” captain and Scottish international is living. Fourteen of the 17 men in the \\ aikato Rugby team which met Canterbury for the Ranfurly Shield are farmel's. It is sugested by a southern wag that if someone yelled out “Milking time” five minutes from the end of a game most of the Waikato players would march off from force of habit. During the progress of a charity game between Hutt and Petone, at Wellington, the referee ordered one of the forwards off, but he refused to go, saying: “You can’t order me off—this is a friendly game.” H. M. Bowcott, noted Welsh centre back, who was a member of the British Rugby team in New Zealand and Australia in 1930, will be playing for London Welsh, instead of for Cardiff, in the new football season at Home. He has accepted a new position in London. There are 26 Rugby Unions affiliated with the New Zealand Rugby Union. Only six of them —North Auckland, Thames Valley, East Coast (N. 1.), Golden Bay-Motueka, Ashburton, and North Otago—have not challenged for the Ranfurly Shield in the 30 years of the shield’s existence.

hour players —two from each side—were ordered off the field in the match in which Drummoyne, beating Northern Suburbs, won the right to meet Manly in the challenge match, since won by Manly, for the first-grade championship of the Sydney Metropolitan Rugby Union. It was a terrifically hard game. “We are of the opinion that the next time the Wellington Rugby Union enters a challenge for the Ranfurly Shield it should be represented by the very best team that it can put in the field,” stated the joint managers of the Wellington team which recently completed a southern tour. It sounds like an attempt to advance an 6XCIIS6. A Rugby team which needed a good fuu-back gave a trial to a young man who claimed to be “very hot stuff in that position. In action this claim was found to be hollow, and several soft tries were scored against him. After the match his captain said wrathiully: “Said you were a full-back, didnt you? Which way do you spell “full ? The N.S.W. Rugby Union wants the old-kiek-into-touch rule. Unofficially it was learnt after a recent meeting that the debate was of about an hour s duration, that some of the speeches lacked nothing in candour, and that a resolution was carried, unanimously, to seek authority to revert to the rule played prior to the All Black

V, Dr. E. T. Morgan, the old Welsh international, has left Swansea, where he had been. In practice for twentyfive years, for Norfolk. Morgan was the left wing three-quarter who scored the winning try for Wales against the All Blacks, under the captaincy of the late David Gallagher, twentysix years ago at Cardiff. Although he has dropped out of international Rugby, Ivor Jones played fine football in Welsh club games and has been a great leader for Llanelly. “It is queer, ’ remarks a North of England writer on Rugby, “that Jones is thought so little of by the Welsh authorities, for in England he is looked upon as one of the best forwards in the game while in New Zealand he is regarded as one of the greatest forwards ever seen in that country of great forwards.” The fact that members of the Wellington Rugby Referees’ Association control about 1550 games a season was announced at the annual smoke concert of the association. The last son opened with 96 referees, and this later increased to 140. It was stated that members of the association turned out to control between 80 and 108 games each Saturday. W. H. Carlson, who represented Waikato in its Ranfurly Shield fixture, lias had a fairly long career in representative football, though he is still young in years. He probably remembers lus first Ranfurly Shield match well. He was in the Hawke’s Bay side on June 3, 192/, when R. Cundy kicked the Ranfurly Shield from Napier to Masterton by putting over four penalty goals, Hawke s Bay being beaten, for the first time in five seasons, by 15 points to 11. Carlson is a son of A. Carlson, now piominent in the sawmilling trade up north, but in 1905 a Hawke’s Bay and North Island representative footballer. Now that lie has retired from the service of the New Zealand Government, H. D. (“Mona”) Thomson will have leisure to ruminate over a varied collection of Rugby football jerseys and caps if he has kept them all. *He played for Canterbury in 1903, but was a Wanganui representative when he was selected for the All Blacks’ British tour in 1905. When lie played for New Zealand against the AngloWelsh team of 1908 he was a Wellington representative. At other times he played for Auckland, Taranaki, and East Coast. He played for the South Island in 1903, and for the North Island in 1905 and 1906. The school for which he played was Wellington College, but previously he had .been lor a time at Christchurch Boys’ High School. With all his club jerseys, too, , he should have a wonderful array of colours.

FIXTURES FOR SATURDAY. The inter-club Rugby competitions will be continued in the Manawatu on Saturday when the following fixtures will be presented:— ; ' Senior grade.—United v. Feilding, No. 4 Showgrounds, 3 p.m., Mr. J. Holman; Kia Toa v. Old Boys, oval, Showgrounds, 3 p.m., Mr A. Gordon; Feilding Old Boys win by default from Massey College. Junior grade final.—Old Boys B v. Feilding, No. 5 Showgrounds, 3 p.m.; Mr L. Cope.