INTER-ISLAND RUGBY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 254, 24 September 1935, Page 10

INTER-ISLAND RUGBY

NORTH ISLAND TEAM. Fer Press Association. WELLINGTON, Sept. 23. The North Island Rugby team selected by Mr E. McKenzie is as follows : Full-back. —Bush (Auckland). Three-quarters.—Apsey (Hawke’s Bay), Campbell (Wanganui), C. Smith (Hawke’s Bay). Five-eighths. Baldwin (Wellington), Le Quesne (Hawke’s Bay). Halfback.—Kilby (Wellington). Forwards.- —Rowe (Thames Valley), G. Harrison (Taranaki), Fraser-Smith (Wellington), Butler (Auckland), Anderson (Auckland), Leeson (Waikato), Gargan (Taranaki), Jackson (Hawke’s Bay). Emergencies.—Pollock (Wellington), Hall (YVellington).

An interesting and unusual position has arisen by the selection of C. Smith, the Hawke’s Bay and Maori All Black, as a member of the North Island team to figure in the annual inter-island match, for it was announced yesterday, that Smith had accepted an offer to play in the League code in England and that he would be leaving for the Cld Country immediately. During the trial games which preceded the selection of the 1935 All Blacks, there were many keen students of Rugby form who considered that Smith should have found a place in the side, and his displays in Australia with the Maori team further bore out the contention.- —“Cross Bar.” POST OFFICE MATCH. During the week-end a Rugby football team from the Wellington Post and Telegraph Office journeyed to Palmerston North to play a match with a combined team from the Palmerston North and Wanganui Post Offices. The match was played on the Milson ground, there being a good attendance of supporters from both teams. The visitors suffered defeat after a good game by 13 points to 8. Tries were scored for the Wanganui-Palmcrston North combined team by Workman (2) and Congreve, the latter taking the kicks at goal and converting two, one try being unconverted. Dunning and Wilson each scored a try for Wellington, Dunning taking the kicks at goal and one being converted. The following were the teams Wellington : Rawston, Stagg, Brabant, McNamara, Johnston, Dunning, Buchanan, Cragg (captain), Price, Pragnell, Kendrick, Gaze, Ready, Wilson, Cameron,. A. R. Davis (coach) and M. A. Hopkins (manager). Palmerston North - Wanganui: Cooper, Crcsswell, Workman, Burke, McKenzie, Congreve, Chalk, Missen, Le Fcvre, Parker, Edwards, Hawkins, and Hepburn. Mr A. Ward controlled the game. SCHOOLS’ COMPETITION. In defeating Central, the Terrace End A team yesterday won the junior primary schools championship of the city. The Terraco End team had won the eastern section and the Central t-eam were the leaders of the western .schools. The result of the final game vas B—o.8 —0.