RUGBY AND CRICKET

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25556, 8 June 1944, Page 2

RUGBY AND CRICKET

NEW ZEALANDERS IN ENGLAND

News of the doings of New Zealanders in services’ sport in England is given by I. W. Gallaway, the ex-Carisbrook cricketer and Otago wicketkeeper. Gallaway, who is now serving in the navy, played in the Pirates Football Club’s senior fifteen after he left Christ’s College, and during the time that he was in the army In New Zealand he played In the senior Rugby competitions in Wellington and Christchurch. He arrived in England just in time for the tail end of tile football season.

On April 22 a New Zealand side chosen from 100 trainees at the depot played a team selected from the rest of the establishment. The New Zealand team, although limited in choice, contained several well-known players, including F. R. Bell-Booth, who has represented Marist Brothers’ Old Boys and Auckland as a wing three-quarter for several years; A. D. Hunter, a well-known Canterbury fiveeighths; D. Beatty, an Auckland University senior; H. W. Revell, a member of the Garrison team which was runner-up to M.T.P. in the Auckland Senior Championship in 1942; J. F. Cotter, Signals senior fifteen, Christchurch; E. Livingstone, who has played for Linwood-Tech-nical-New Brighton seniors in Christchurch, and Gallaway at half-back. The New Zealanders' opponents had a remarkably strong side during the season and lost only 2 matches out of 37. Their opponents had B. C. Gadney, the English international half-back and captain, playing for them, and their greatest triumph was a 15—15 draw against a side chosen from internationals cf England, Scotland, and Wales, including Jenkins, Jones, and several other famous players. The Establishment beat the New Zealanders by 13 points to 3. Considering their lack of practice and the lirriited range of their selectibn, the New Zealanders put up a good performance. Bell-Booth and Gallaway and two others were selected after the game to play for the Establishment the following day against an Army team. The Navy side won by 63 points to 3. Gallaway played at half-back, with this year’s Cambridge first five-eighths, J. Coutts, outside him. Coutts is described as “ a beautiful footballer.” _ ~ Cricket began on May 1, and Gallaway is captaining the New Zealand team at the Establishment. In their first match, against a team from university students training there, the New Zealanders won very easily. Brcadbent, an Auckland Training College bowler, took five wickets for 11 runs, and Macdonald, Navy fast bowler against the Army at Auckland, took four for 3.