RUGBY FOOTBALL

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 127, 24 May 1932, Page 2

RUGBY FOOTBALL

SOUTH ISix/IAO TEAM CANTERBURY NOMINATIONS (Per Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. The following Canterbury players have been nominated for the South Island team: G. F. Hart, C. G. Oliver, G. D. Innes, G. Day, A. W. Roberts, A. I. Cottrell, J. E. Manchester, A. H. Andrews and W. Sweeney. THE OTAGO QUOTA DUNEDIN, Monday. Following are the Otago nominations for the South Island team: — Backs: Fookes, Smith, Proctor, McKenzie, Simon. Forwards: Hore, Finlayson, Lucy. SOUTH CANTERBURY’S CHOICE i TIMARU, Monday. The following South Canterbury players have been nominated for inclusion in the South Island team: —■ T. Morrison (wing three-quarter), L. Connolly (full-back), J. Callanan (forward). The North Island Team WANGANUI NOMINATIONS WANGANUI, Monday. The Wanganui Rugby nominations for the North Island team are: — Bullock-Douglas (wing threequarter) and Waters (forward). HIS LAST INTERNATIONAL BASSETT’S IRISH GAME Before Wales’s recent Rugby match with Ireland, Jack Bassett, the Welsh full-back and captain, and full-back of the British team in New Zealand and Australia, in 1930, intimated that it would bo his last international game, as he intended to retire at the end of the season. •It was all the more regretted, then, that he ended his inter-

national career with a display well below his old standard. ‘‘lt seemed to me,” says a writer in an English paper “that Bassett lost confidence after allowing Ireland to score the first try. He was never himself after that.” Another writer says: “Even during the earliest part of the present season it ■was whispered that Jack had become very slow. This had become obvious but before the match with Ireland his wonderful sense of anticipation enabled him to make up for his loss of speed. On this occasion, however, Bassett started ‘off on the wrong foot’ and was never his usual cool and certain self. ” However, Police-Sergeant Bassett is remembered as a man who had given some magnificent displays as full-back for Wales.