RUGBY FOOTBALL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20965, 3 March 1930, Page 7

RUGBY FOOTBALL

THE BRITISH TEAM. TWENTY-NINE MEN SELECTED/ A POWERFUL COMBINATION. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, February 28. The British Rugby team, which will tour Australia and New Zealand, will be:— Full-backs: J. Bassett (Ponarth and Wales), G. Bonner (Bradford and Yorkshire). Three-quarters: C. Aarvold (ex-Can-tab, Headingley, and England), J. Reeve {Harlequins and England), J. Morley (Newport and Wales), A. Novis (Army and England), T. Murray (Wanderers and Ireland), M. Crowe (Lansdowne and Ireland), R. Jennings (Redruth and Cornwall), T. Jones Davies (London Welsh and Wales). Halves: T. Knowles (Birkenhead Park ana Cheshire), R. Spoug and W. Sobev (both Old Mill Hill and England). N. Poole (Cardiff). Forwards: W. Wakefield (captain. Harlequins and England), H. Rews (Army, Exeter, and England), D. Parker Swansea.and Wales), W. Welsh (Hawick and Scotland), B. Black and P. Howard (Oxford University and England), M. Dunne (Lansdowne and Ireland), G. Beamish (Air Force and Ireland), J. Farrell (Eective Rangers and Ireland), J, Hodgson (Northern and Northumberland), H. O’Neill (Queen’s University, Belfast, and Ireland), Tver Jones (Llanelly and Wales), H. Wilkinson (Halifax and England), F. Prentice (Leicester and England), Martindale (Kendal and England).

The team will sail by the Rangitata °? llj Vla Pa uama, and will land at Wellington. , Nineteen matches will be played in New Zealand and five in Australia.

The tourists are under the management of Mr James Baxter, chairman of Union Selection Committee, ihe team is regarded as notably powerful and representative. It includes England s halves, who put up a wonderful game against France a week a or o.‘ The Daily Express says the° team is strong and capable of worthily upholding the prowess of the Old Country. The selectors must he congratulated on securSalUtT"’’ .* ““ W

i ONLY ONE SCOTSMAN. WORTHY REPRESENTATIVES. i-r, ‘ - , ’ LONDON, March 1. (Recced March 2, at 11 p.m.) oiJ h tb n f b +n rVer - S writer points out that there is only one Scotsman in the 26 tourists for Australia and New ron^ n +'i b + t j Says tbe selectors- must be congratulated on the choice of a team mkw * T o Y ortlli| y represent Britain. Although. Sohey Spong is available as first choice the half-back reserves are not up to international standard. Wakelleids experience as captain will be in■’a^ a n b f le - Tbe forwards have the makings of a very strong pack,