LEAGUE FOOTBALL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20019, 8 August 1928, Page 19

LEAGUE FOOTBALL.

ENGLAND V. COMBINED TEAM. GAME AT CARLAW PARK TO-DAY. PERSONNEL OF THE TEAMS. The English Rugby League team will play ♦he third game of its tour at Carlaw Park fhis afternoon, when the visitors will be re,nosed to nn Auckland Provincial thirteen.Severn! South Aucklanders have advised of (heir inability to play, wnd Seagar, Auckland. is also unavailable The team to play , Ba inst the visitors to-day will -comprise all Axtckln ntl players with the exception of Menkes, South Auckland The English team tins with three exceptions undergone a complete change from {hut which played Inst, Saturday. The side, nevertheless, is a tine combination. In fact, jraiiy of the visiting players who failed to g,-i a place in tho best thirteen have pWycd brilliantly in Australia, and can bo defended upon to give a fast and open exposition of t "no code to-day. Tho teams as follows: England.-- Fullback. Cowers; three-quar-tors. Enxkham, Kosser, Fairclough. Gwynne- halves. B. Evans and Rees; forwards, Williams, Thompson, Bowman, J3owen. Halfpenny, Youmg. Auckland Province.— Fullback, Dufty ; {hreeciuarters, L. Scott, List, Beattie; fivoeicrhtlis. ITanlon Amos: halfback. Peckham; forwards, Menzies (South Auckland), MoisJiv, Ha!!, Clarke St George, Payne. Unserves.—Backs: Wilson, Davis; forwards Jenkinson. O'Brien (Devonport). Campbell. ' The charges for admission will bo one shilling io the ground and one shilling to the stand. The teams are requested to assemble at the'Tepid Baths at - o'clock.