THE FIRST TEST

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 93, 24 August 1923, Page 5

THE FIRST TEST

RUGBY INTERNATIONALS MEET AT DUNEDIN ON SATURDAY. Per Press A s elation. Dunedin, August 24. Tbo weather 1 ok 0 more settled for to-morrow’tj tost. Tbo ground will lx* a trifle heavy. Ail the searing arcomrrodatioti has boon bnoked. an attdnd«mco of 20,000 being assured ’"f fine. The teams will be as follows: NEW ZEALAND. Full-back—Sinclair ( n {n o). Three-quarters Steel (West Cya:t), Potaka (Wanganui), and Snodgrass (Noh’on). Five-eighths—F. TiUard (Wellington), A. Peina (Wanganui). Half-hack—M il (Hawke’s Rev). Forward?—Hookers. Oemell (Hawke’s Bay) and McMeeking (Otago); lock, Wilb’ams (Otago); side supports. Richardson (Southland) and Peterson (Canterbury); back row, Brownlie (Hawke’s Bay) and Righton ( Auckland); wing forward, Beilis (Wanganui). Bell, who has an nicer on the leg, is not avai’aMe. Pringle who was troub’ed with a footballer’s ear was attended yeterday by the doctor.

WELSHMEN.

Full-back—tNothling.

Three-quarters—Erasmus, .Stanley, Sheehan, Smith; emergency, Loudon. Five-eighths—George. <^ Half-back—Minga.

Forwards—Front row. Thompson, Balckwood and ,:t)avis; second row, Marrott and Taylor; back, row, Elliott, ; Thorne and Armstrong^