REPRESENTATIVE FOOTBALL

Taranaki Daily News, 22 August 1930, Page 5

REPRESENTATIVE FOOTBALL

TARANAKI v. MANAWHENUA. TO-MORROW’S BIG MATCH. The Manawhenua team, which is to meet Taranaki to-morrow, will arrive at New Plymouth thia afternoon by motor. The team is said to be a very stronw one, possessing forwards with plenty of weight, pace and dash, whilst its backs are also said to be speedy. Ab the result of the matches played the team now possesses combination, cohesion and confidence that were lacking in the earlier games, and should fully extend the Taranaki team. The local fifteen is a very strong one. The forwards, who are the seven that met Wellington and Auckland, have only to be seen on their best behaviour to keep the strongest pack in the Dominion busy. The backs are solid in defence, and providing Gudgeon can get his share of the ball should put up a spectacular exhibition, as he passes out smartly, and with Owen also handy Galbraith should be ».ble to make plenty of openings for his three-quar-ter line, Watson, Brown and Fookes. Prior to the representative match New Plymouth Boys’ High School and Auckland Grammar will play their annual match so that the public should witness an afternoon’s football worth travelling many miles to see.

teams FOR TO-MORROW’S games Teams taking part in to-morrow’s Rugby games are:— •*' • - Star fourth and fifth grade Racecourse, 3 p.m., practice match: Gray, O’Donnell, Perreau, McKay, Suhr, Parkin, Gore (2), McCauley, McFarlane, White, Stroud, Rutherford, Baker, Craw, Nuttall, Bo wan, South, Manning, Cropp. ' ; Star junior A v. Clifton, at

Fcrbes-Faulkner, Beer, Utiger, Sullivan, Bridge, Payne, Way, McLeod (2), Eva, Hoskin, Wilkins, Fitzpatrick, Bell, Harvey, Crapper, Smith. Star thirds v. Tukapa: Plumtree, Neale, Burr, Webber (2), Kerr (2), Simpson, Sampson, Hagerty, Early, Riley, Robinson, G. • MeLer.n, Kinsella, Page. Lash.-