RUGBY FOOTBALL TOURS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20244, 2 May 1929, Page 18

RUGBY FOOTBALL TOURS.

VISIT OF ENGLISH TEAM.

INVITATION TO SPRINGBOKS. THROWING IN FROM TOUCH. [from our own correspondent.] LONDON. March 19. On the eve of the England-Scotland Rugby match in Edinburgh tho International Board met to discuss various questions. Still another meeting was that of the selection committee for the Rugby Union tour in New Zealand and Australia in 1930. At this latter meeting tho committee, Messrs. J. Baxter, A. D. Stoop, J. Daniell, E. Gwen Nicholls and G. V. Stephenson, talked about various players ■who might be included in tho touring team.

It is understood tho members of tho committee propose getting into early touch with players who may bo likely candidates for tho tour, and giving them ample notice of the call that may come to them in the hope that they may thus be able to make the necessary arrangements to get away.

Among matters discussed by tho International Board was the proposal to invito tho South African Rugby Union to send a team to tour England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales in tho season 1931-2. Mr. Paul Roos, tho captain of tho South African touring team of 1906-7, was present by invitation, and put before tho board tho views held by tho Dominions on tne subject of their greater share in tho government of the game.

Among other matters the board discussed were tho ever-present problem of getting the ball into the scrummage and tho less usual one of the way to stand when tho ball is to bo thrown in from touch. In order to have a uniform rule it was decided that a player must have both feet in touch.