NORTH ISLAND RUGBY TEAM

Taranaki Daily News, 20 September 1929, Page 4

NORTH ISLAND RUGBY TEAM

TARANAKI HAS AN EMERGENCY. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Palmerston North, Sept. 19. The North Island team to meet the South Island on September 28 at Wellington is as follows:— Heazlewood (Wellington) Minns Lucas Elvy (Auckland) (Auckland) (Wellington) Cooke Johnston (Wairarapa) (Wellington) Mill < Wairarapa) Porter (Wellington) Batty McPhail (Auckland) (Poverty Bay) McWilliams Harvey Campbell (Auckland) (Wairarapa) (H. Bay) Reid A. Finlayson (Wairapara) (Auckland) The reserves are:—Back, Stringfellow (Wairarapa); forward, McLean (Taranaki). The nomination of Nepia (East Coast) was received after the team had been selected. lan Finlayson (Northland) was unavailable. INTERNATIONAL RUGBY LEAGUE. SYDNEY TEAM TO VISIT AUCKLAND By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Sept. 19. The emergency committee of the New Zealand League Football Council decided last evening to accept the offer of a visit from the South Sydney (New South Wales) team and suggested October 12, 10 and 19 as the dates of the three matches proposed (all in Auckland). DAN O’BRIEN SHIELD RUGBY. “OLD PLAYER” SUGGESTS TEAM. “Old Player” writes to the News as follows: In view of the forthcoming Dan O’Brien Shield match, I would like, as an old Star player, to suggest the following team:— C. Hunt H. Wolfe G. Moorhead H. Billing S. Clegg E. Loveridge D. Hoskin Pepperill J, Ford C. Shaw F. Wolfe McLean K. Harvey C. Clarke McDonald Reserves: Kinsella, Blincoe, Beck, Kendall. TEAMS CHOSEN FOR TO-MORROW. Star seniors versus juniors at Racecourse, at 3 p.m,:. Kinsella, Blincoe, Meuli, Moorhead, Josephs, Billing, Clegg, Pepperill, Ford, Harvey, C. Clarke, Broughton, Shaw, Beck, Phillips, McDonald, Utiger, Brooks, Sullivan, Bell, Rielly. Star juniors.—Burless, Fitzpatrick, Lealand, Moorhead, Sampson, Harvey, Hoskin, Smith, Ford, McLeod (3), Crawford, Morgan, Way, Ferry, Rutherford, S : 'pson, Jones, Nielsen. Star fourth grade v. High School, at Pukekura Park, at 1.15 p.m.: Robb, Lash, Kerr, Burr, Webber '(2), Kinsella, Rothery, Hagerty, Page, Early, Manning, Sampson, Worn, Scoble, O’Donnell, Cursons.