ALL BLACK EXPERIMENT ON WEDNESDAY
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Black To Play As Scrum Half
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Received Monday, 11.53 a.m, KIMBERLEY, August 21. . The Ali Black selectors have deClded on the experiment of playing Black as scrum half in Wednes--day's matoh against North Eastern Districts at Aliwal North, A gfeat weakness througho'ut the totif, except for" the Fifgt Test, has bCeij the slow service from the scrum, .partly due to slow heeling of the ball but mainly to the inability of New Zealand half-ba'cks to throw the ball as far Or with the same speed as the Soiith Af riCarts, though their play in other .departments, particularly that of S'aV&ge, has been good. ' . ' In some practices Black, deputising as scrum half, threw out 'excel- ' lent long passes, and though the tour appears too far advanced to try experiments, the selectors have decided on this change as the All Blacks have everything to gain if it succeeds. The team for- Wednesday's match is: J. Goddard, Botting, M. P. Goddar, Henderson, Ahen, Kearney, Black, Simpson, Catley, Dalton, McNab, Willocks, Frazer, Crowley, and Ghristian. North Eastern Districts' team is drawn from a widely scattere.d area and is generally considered the weakest in South Africa.
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Chronicle (Levin), 22 August 1949, Page 5
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