RUGBY FOOTBALL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 9 November 1927, Page 6

RUGBY FOOTBALL

ALL BLACKS V. WAR-ATAHS “llacka,” writing in the “Star,” says:—The “Waratalis” will be back in Sydney just about seven weeks before the i 928 All Blacks leave for South Africa. If a match could be arranged, just imagine vvliat- a crowd these two teams would draw.

The writer lias just returned from Sydney and knows that the New South Wales' Rugby Union keenly desires this match try be played if at all possible. Officials there say that they do not, care vvliat day the match is on as long gs it can he arranged. Why not? It would be a great Rugby event, thrilling and historic.

The. All Blacks certainly would be out of practice, but so would the "Waratalis.” They would have had a- sea voyage of six weeks before disbanding and then another seven weeks before the match. '

J.I certainly would be a- chance for the All Rlacks to get together, and the match already arranged with a \ ictorian side could still be played. The writer, when speaking on the subject to a Rugby Union official in Wellington, was informed that the New Zealand Rugby Union was not going to take any risks'. If such is the case, New South Wales will lose a game that people would travel miles to see. Surely New Zealanders are not going to have it said that- the 1928 All Blacks were frightened to meet the “Waratalis.”