British Football Team For New Zealand

Chronicle (Levin), 8 November 1949, Page 7

British Football Team For New Zealand

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LONDUN, Nov. 0. I "Are-you in a position to teave your . business or occupationf" is tlie ques- 1 tion in a letter now being sqnt by I Kugby county eommittees to players ot | county standard in the United King- ? dom. I Tiiose who reply "Yes" will become t eligible for seJeetion for the tour of 1 New Zealand and Australia. County | eommittees will then make tlieir rec- I ommendations to the Kugby Uuion, anj . it is expected that the list will be coin- 1 plete.d in six weeks.' I Present plans are that the team will | sail in the Ceramic on April 1. I Wales expect to have tlieir " pos | sibles'' ready for earlv December. j lt is unlikely that tiiere will be any j automatic selections from amoiig those | who say they can make the tour vvith I the exceptiou of the captain. Yanous j names are being suggested There n J lvor Preece, Engl-ind's captain, who j has rucently been sull'ering from watei on the knee, but who will be playuig again today ror Coventry, at Ewansea. I There is also Llieddyn WiiJiams, who was expected to captain Wales thn season, aud Karl Aiullen, captain ot ! Ireiand during the past two seasons, j and Gully Wilson, last year's captain j oi' Oxford, vvlio now plays for Scotland. . Oue suggestiou is that tlie captain ! of the team should be nanied as soon as possible, amt then co-opted as a inenilier of the selection eommittee.

Soviet in Bourgeois Sport. Boviet sport ' ' dill'ers basically fron. Bourgeois sport)" says the Aloseow newspaper J'ravda. . "Bourgeois sport corrupts the individual morally, and dei elops base instinets, and it is ulihseU by warmongers for criminal aims. 80viet sport serves the noble purpose ot iniproving health and aiils the liarminous dex elopment of the new tuan.— the_ builder of Commuuist society," it said. Besides that, Pravda declares, it prepares people "for the del'ence oi the Socialist homeland. "