More Rugby Selections

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 671, 24 May 1929, Page 12

More Rugby Selections

“Penalty” writes: I would like to give you my opmW; of the best Rugby team the present time in Aucklandforwards may seem strange, but 1 n picked workers in preference “shiners.” „ Pullback, Butler (Training Colley threequarters, Munns (N (Ponsonby), Abbott (Training lege); five-eighths, Berridge toi i • Ifwersen (City); half, Jenkin l sity); front row, Finlayson (Grat****; Hadley (Marist Old Boys), Binw (Varsity), Wanoa (.Grafton), Fie (City); back row, McWilliams t j sonby), Anderson (Varsity); Solomon (Ponsonby). . lt j Five-eighths are hard to nna t “ picked lfwerson because he is n _ oin€ back to form, and he is worth a 6 for his brains and kicking. Another correspondent, Enthusiast,” gives his idea ot follows: vißn s. Backs, Butler, Abbott. Lucas, - Berridge, Jenkins, Rac; for**** Batty, Fletcher, Soloman, Holt Swain, Hadley, A. Knight, > . Emergencies: Backs, L. ** oo *E r \r£wasser and Corner; forwards, M I liums, Anderson and L. KnightThere are only three new face* the team, those being Abbott, and Holt, of City. All football 1 of cotfrse, know Abbott, the w Training College wing, who is 5° be an All Black if he gets the cna He has everything that is reQUXT . a footballer, and should be no ® bes ; for the trial matches. Rae is , half in Auckland, now that lc poChas retired. After seeing the sonby-City match on Saturday , convinced that Holt is Auckland . wing forward. He has the' “rjjjpil of a champion, and the selector have -a look at him. Fletcher other forward who should D eluded—a hard worker, his paf® markable for a forward. Trie ‘ eighths are hard to pick, but on ridge’s display last week he muincluded. . . I have dropped McWilliam. Hook, neither of whom are * good football. The former is - , shadow of the forward he was s ago.