Orphanage Day At Rugby Park; Unique Football Tomorrow

Northern Advocate, 27 May 1938, Page 7

Orphanage Day At Rugby Park; Unique Football Tomorrow

EVER HAS SUCH A GALAXY OF FOOTBALLING TALENT BEEN ASSEMBLED ON A NORTHLAND FOCI BALL GROUND AS WILL BE THE CASE TO-MORROW AFTERNOON, WHEN THE OLD TIMERS WILL TAKE THE FIELD.

To crown the success of the Northland Orphanage appeal, the thhty bos, players, drawn from past generations whd are still active enough to show their tricks, have emerged from their retirement and will demonstrate hov Rugby should bo. and was, played when Now Zealand stood at the top of the world. '

Eight All Blacks. Is h; expected that no less than eight players who have worn an All Black jersey will be taking part. Most senior of these will bo the Weston Brothers, Stan and Lin, who both represented their country before the war. M. F. Stead captained the Maori All Black tide to Australia in 1922: both at Rugby and League. Karl If worsen represented New Zealand on many occasions; Alf Waterman was a wing-three-quarter in the side which; crossed the Tasman in 193). The above will make the Town backline practically

an international one. The strength of the Country teamlies in its forwards. Their leader Junes Finlayson. was one of the finest packmen ever to wear an All Black jersey, and so was W. R- Irvine, who must have a wardrobe almost full of silver-tasseled caps. W. Rika, who toured Great Britain and France with the Maori side of 1926 and was a colleague of Waterman’s on the Australian tour, was' another great forward. Of the players who have not, been capped for New Zealand no less than 16 have represented North Auckland, two have played for Auckland and one for Otago- The remainder are all ex-Wliangarei reps, dating from 1909 until recent times. Practice Takes its Toll. While practicing with a football yesterday afternoon Sterle Crawford, ex-North Auckland rover, sprained a knee. Several other Country players arc doubtful at the moment, and so the following will be on hand tomorrow with togs to assist if required: Don Fraser, rover Whangarei High School 1925. Old Boys, 1926 and ’3l; Whangarei 1931. Alec McLennan, centre, Whangarei High School 1927, ’Karamea 192.8-32; Whangarei rep. Jack Litt, centre and wing; ’Karamea 192531; Whangarei and North Auckland rep.

■> Start at lp,m, The kick off at Rugby Park tomorrow will be at 1 p.m., halt an hour earlier than, usual. First to occupy the stage in the most attractive bill of fare of the year, will be High School and City juniors. School have not played in front of the grandstand previously this season. They have a light but clever team and are matched against a strong side in City who have been defeated once only in five matches. The Old Time match will follow. Then, as the senior attraction, will be the clash betwen present day town and country players drawn from senior ranks. The selectors, Mr. C. J. Malloy (town) and Mr J. Wood (country) are both keen students of the game and have assembled sides which should be very evenly matched, and turn on very bright football indeed. The rep team which will be sent to Dargaville tomorrow, is in the nature of an experiment, and a number of the men who will play at Rugby Park to-morrow will win their spurs in Harding Shield games later.

For Good Cause, At 2 pan. to-morrow pipers will lead a march to the Park from the Bank Corner, and will play the Old Timers on to the ground. Several carnival attractions which will add to the entertainment have also been arranged. All proceeds from tomorrow’s effort will be handed to the Board of Trustees for the erection of an Orphange at Tikipunga. CLUB TEAMS. The following club teams will take part in compel ition matches: — Old Boys, juniors: Wilson (2). Haigh. Symes, Goodison, jßourke (2), Stockwell, Hayes. Hill, Foote, Atkins, Blow, James (2), Millar, Ferguson. Smith. Turner. Griffin. Weston.

Oid Boys thirds—Morpeth. Bradley, Fairley. Low, Horner. Langley. Parker-., Black. Clarke. Ayton. Booth. Lane, Muir. Day, King, Crump, Bourke, Ansell, Shepherd,' Palmer. Hora Hora juniors; Carter, Reynolds, Bevinglon, Moslem, Amos. McKeown, Lord, Redwood. Provan. Redwood, Humphries. Boyd. Livingston. Hughes. Fidler. Hora Hora third grade: Meeney, Webb. North, Parkes. Cowan. Calder. Bell, McLiesh, Patterson, Nicholson, DufTcy, Redwood. Conaghan. Taylor, Bcehre'. Fourth. Grade: T. McDonald. Alexander, Gurney. Ayton. Watters, Fraser, Bourke. Moslem, Port. Nordstrand, Taylor. Huston, Cranston, McDonald. Noel. Fifth Grade: Conaghan, Hutton, Mcars, Malloy. Pnttison. Davison, Penk. Posa. Brake, Beehre, If worsen, Clotworthy, Sullivan. Taylor. Cluard, .Borne, Flavell. Fifth Grade. —Mauuu; Slater, L. McKinney, Whitelaw, Waetford. McDonald, Hcgley. Finlayson, Griffiths. Bailiss, R. ’ McDonald, Griffin, R. Garry, Durham. Thomas, M. McKinney, D. McKinney, Mcßeath, Wright. Anderson.