RUGBY PLAYERS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 78, 2 April 1938, Page 4

RUGBY PLAYERS

PERSONAL

PARAGRAPHS

B. S. SADLER NOT., LIKELY TO PLAY

It is unlikely that B. S. Sadler, the brilliant Wellington half-back of the 1935 All Blacks in England, will play Rugby again. 'l'he knock in a club match last season, which put him out of the running for selection against the Springbok* and which seriously weakened the All Blacks side in a key position, was painful enough at the time and it kept him in hospital for some time. The healing has been neither quick nor complete, and the leg injury still is troublesome.

One full-back of considerable ability will not take the field in Wellington Rugby this season. He is J. Vartan, who represented Hawke’s Bay manfully for some years before tran*ferring to Wellington a couple of year ago. Vartan played for Poneke and he was frequently worth much to the side, for he took a lot of stopping on the run. His weight of over 14s I. made him a difficult man to tackle.

He played against the Springboks in the Wellington match last year and the comic moment of the day came after he had left the field with his teammates and the score board was reading 29 to 0. He was given a telegram. He opened it. “Good luck,” it said. Vartan was married during the off season and is definite in his decision to retire.

Max Wright, Wellington representative Rugby hooker, has been trans ferrod to Auckland. He is a son of H. R. (“Bumper”) Wright, famous as the captain of the first New Zealand Rugby League team to tour Britain, the All Golds in 1907, and brother of the Wellington representative and 1935 North Island wing three-quarter, Alan Wright.