DAVID GALLAHER

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 94, 14 January 1918, Page 7

DAVID GALLAHER

AX ENGLISH TRIBUTE.

The /'Athletic News" has the following rpfeieice to the All Ulack captain, who feii in action in France in October last':--liivid uai.Uhcr was one of the bravo men of i-iw isaisnd. As a vinglorward he was iraiuwriii? foully abused on the field oi piay. Tne jwpular notion seeuled to be that ii GwislKi were successfully man-handl«i half the engagement was won. Thar, wau a mistake, for whilo Galiaher was being attended to ¥. .Roberts would be speeding the ball away in another direction. He.took bis'gruelling philosophically, but the attentions bestowed upon bun and our players' ignorance of real scrummage working surprised him. Our men learnt a lot from him, all tho same.. Now Zealand experts toll us that Gallaher was not so good a wing-for-ward as G. Gillett, ono of tho fullbacks of the tour, who later came to this country with a professional team. What the relative form of tho men was in the Dominion we cannot say, but in England Gillett was not within 50 per cent, of hhi. captain when, as understudy, he assumed the latter's role. And Gallaher was such a fine captain. Ho said very little, but a look from.him spoko volumes, if the phrase be not a paradox. He was a dour chap who suggested the serious Scot rather than the volatile Irishman, but with those who knew him he was immensely popular. Gallaher enlisted when he might easily have avoided doing so, and he came' to Europe in the early summer to fight the enemy. Now he has fallen a victim to the Huns. He will not be forgotten while people live to recall the exploits of that great band of All Blacks.