ENGLISH PLAYERS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 276, 20 November 1937, Page 4

ENGLISH PLAYERS

DRIFT TO LEAGUE LONDON, Sept. 29. The constant stream of amateur players from Rugby Union to Rugby League clubs is causing grave concern in Rugby Union circles. One aspect is that Rugby League clubs are no longer sending agents to spot out good players in Rugby Union matches. Rugby Union players must first go north and show what they can do. The constant shifting about of amateur players is placing some clubs in awkward positions. Amateurs contend they are free agents. Committees reply that life has undergone fundamental changes, and the outlook of the individual has been so broadened that

modern standards must be applied. Modern standards, argue committees, mean stability so that they know what team to turn out, say, in a month hence What the Rugby Union people do not seem to understand is that their Union is no longer confined exclusively to the “best” people. It has become more and more a game for the ordinary player Like tennis players they heve to live, and if they can find a team willing to pay them, why shoo'd they be debarred from excepting the offer, is what the average rnan ‘.ays - - (London correspondent of the Sydney Referee.)