TEAM TO PLAY ALL BLACKS TODAY.
SYDNEY, June 8. The All Blacks play an Australian team which will not include any test or Queensland players, in Sydney on Tuesday. The forwards in particular should benefit from another game. They leave for Brisbane on Wednesday and have Thursday and Friday there preparing for the fipst test next Saturday. Even then the New Zealanders will have liad only three games together in Australia, consequently the first test promises to be no easier for the New Zealanders than today 's game against New South Wales. The Victorian* forward Davis has been chosen in the Australian fifteen to play the All Blacks at the Sydney showground on Tuesday. The reserves include the South 'Australian forward M. Hone. All the .pthers are New Soiitif5Wkl'ft6'%lti}^KJ*JThei "tearairids as follows: Fullback, B. Percival; three quarters, S. P. Preston, J. Blomley, W. Marsden, R. Nation; five-eighth, N. Emery; half, R. Cawsey; forwards, A. Dennett, J. Stcnmark, I. McKellar, D. Kraefft, N. Shcdadie, E: Davis, D. Furness, J. Turnbull. ReshrVes: Iv. MeMahon, A. Fitzsimons, Cl.> Davis, R. Oampbell, B. Cox, M. IIoii4/ J. Milner, W. Dawson, I. Miles and E. Masters. Percival and Preston come from Newcastle. The scrum will be strengthened by the presence of Kraefft and Furness from yesterday 's New South Wales team.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 June 1947, Page 7
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