FOOTBALL

Wairarapa Daily Times, 7 September 1937, Page 6

FOOTBALL

SPRINGBOKS v. SOUTHLAND. TO-MORROW’S TEAMS. INVERCARGILL, Monday. Following are the teams for Wednesday’s match between the Springboks and Southland: — Springboks: Brand, Lawton, Babrow, Hofmeyr, Lochner, Lyster, Van de Vyver, De Villiers; forwards, Fanie Louw, Lotz, Alartin, Strachan, Nel, Van Den Berg, Van Reenen, Du Toit, One three-quarter is to be. dropped* Southland: FulH&c'k, A. AY. AVesney; three-quarters, A. G. Sutherland, N. A. Mitchell, E. Calvert; five-eighths, G’. P. Thomas, P. Grace; half-back, J. Purdue; front row, C. George, J. Alattingly, V. L. George; middle row, E. R. Chesterman, N. R. Irwin, R. 11. AYard, J. Hamilton; back row, AAA L. Crawford. If Alitcliell is unable to play AVesney will be played at centre and G. Sylvester at full-back. After ten days of warm sunny weather the ground at Rugby Park is in wonderful order and when the Springboks, who arrived at one o’clock, were practising there this . afternoon dust was seen to rise in places. The manager of the Springbok team, Air. P. Day, said to-night that owing to the fact that numerous telegrams of congratulation on Saturday’s victory were taken apparently by some unknown person from the Springbok team s private sitting room in Christchurch he regretted he was unable to follow his usual practice of acknowledging them individually. He wished the senders to know that the .messages were much appreciated by himself and the team. —(P.A.) SURPRISE FOR SPRINGBOKS. INVERCARGILL,. Monday. A pleasant surprise was in store, for the Springboks when they visited Rugby Park for a practice run to-day. They expected to find, they said, a bog of mud but instead found a playing surface unequalled in any of the grounds they had played on m New Zealand. The park has. rarely been seen in such good condition. A. de Villiers, one of the managers, said it was the best surface the team had seen or been on during the New Zealand tour. “AVe are delighted with it, he said. —(P.A.)