RUGBY AND LEAGUE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19144, 9 October 1925, Page 10

RUGBY AND LEAGUE.

CHALLENGE TO ALL BLACKS. QUEENSLAND TEAM'S VIEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH .-OWN CORRESPONDENT.) WELLINGTON. Thursday. Mr. H. Sunderland, a manager of the Queensland League football team, had something further to say to-day regarding the challenge which the 1 ' team recently issued to the All Blacks. " The real reason for our first issuing a challenge to the All Blacks," he said, " was because Rugby Union critics in reference to the New Zealand-New South Walas match in Auckland stated that no League team could hope to live with the Rugby Union All Blacks. Up to this stage we had refrained from criticising the All Blacks in any way, but this taunt could do no other than bring a challenge from us. Now that we have offered to play them even under their own rules it would be better to settle the question on the playing field than by newspaper criticisms or official mouthings. " The Queenslanders do not suggest for one moment that the All Blacks are not a great must be a very great team—but we have the admission q! their captain, Mr. Porter, on his return from England that they did not meet with much serious opposition on their tour, the Rugby Union game in England being mostly of a social nature. The Queenslanders would be real opposition for the All Blacks and if beaten by them would cheerfully acknowledge that they were the side that some of their supporters helieved them to he."