RUGBY TOUR.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 200, 14 July 1936, Page 7

RUGBY TOUR.

AUSTRALIAN TEAM. SYDNEY. July 13. The Australian Rugby Union team to tour New Zealand is as follows, where not otherwise indicated players being from New South AVales: — Full-back: K. P. Storey. Wing-threequarters: A. D. McLean (Queensland), J. D. Kalalier, R. W. Dorr (Victoria). Centre-threequartcrs: AV. McLaughlin, 15. S. Hayes (Queensland), R. Rankin,

B. C. Egan. Five-eighths: L. S. Lewis (Queensland), J. D. Hammond (Victoria). Half-backs: E. Gibbons, V. S. Rich-

ards. Forwards: 0. L. Bridle (Victoria), A. J. Hodgson. K. S. AVindon, R. .L. Kelly. T. P. Pauling. AV. G. White, K. M. Ramsay, F. E. Hutchinson. ,T. H. Alalonc, R, J. AValden, AV. H. Cerutti, A. 11. Stone, E. T. Bonis (Queensland).

As was to be expected in consequence of the victories of New South Wales in all the recent inter-State games the majority of players are from that State. Queensland has four representatives and Victoria three. Hayes has been appointed captain and Waldos vice-captain. Only seven of the Waratahs who toured South Africa in 1933 are included in the team. Five men, Egan. Pauling, Windon, Hutchinson and Stone, played inter-State football for the first time this year. All are youthful players. Pauling is the son of the late Ti G. Pauling, -a former .New Zealand footballer, who subsequently played in Australia. The manager of fho.’- team will lie Mr K. 0. Shaw, who .was .in; charge of the 1927-28 Waratahs when they toured Britain and who lias also been official representative of the, New" South Wales Rugby Union attached, to all recent New Zealand teams which have visited Australia. “BEST TEAM YET.” POSSIBILITIES STRESSED. SOUNDNESS, SPEED, AND DASH. Received Julv 14, 10.50 a.m. SYDNEY, July 14. In the Rugby Union team the seven W T aratahs are McLean, Kelaher, Hodgson, Bridle, White, Cerutti, and Bonis. Bridle, Cerutti, and Bonis were members of the last Australian team to tour New Zealand in 1931. The average age ol' the players is 23,} years and the average weight 12st 131 b. The backs average 23 years and list. 101 b., and the forwards 21 years and list. lib. Hutchinson (IS) is the youngest and Bonis (28) the oldest member of the team.

Gibbons (lOst. 41b.) is the lightest and White (lost. 21b.) is the heaviest player. The Sydney Morning Herald says it is a team of great possibilities, and from the 25 players there can he chosen 15 players who will comprise a side possessing soundness, speed, and dash. Some of the older players will have to fight hard to win places in the Test combinations, so promising are the colts. Sid King, writing in the Daily Telegraph, says : It is probably the strongest team from here ever to visit New Zealand. The team will not lack for loose forwards, and it is hoped that the hard-rucking brigade will be equal to the massed onslaughts ol . the New Zealand packs. C. L. Brown, writing in the Labour Daily, says the team is strong in all positions, and should New Zealand regain possession of • the Bledisloe Cup it will be a tribute to the strength of the All Blacks. The selectors on the tour will be the captain, vice-captain, and manager. The team will sail by the Aorangi on August 13. The players and the manager will not bo allowed to write newspaper articles.