PREPARING FOR TOUR

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 60, 27 March 1937, Page 14

PREPARING FOR TOUR

Bl» . — 'ittJSTRMIAN RUGBY LEAGUE !EEAM roa GREAT BRITAIN -^Rugby League matteis in Australia ar* moving quickly, says the Sydney Referee. Xa England control of the game on the field is being discussed a good deal." Putting of the ball into the scrummage is giving no end of trouble. Many suggestions are being put forward to minimise the muddling that now takes place. However, nothing new is likely to be evolved before the Australians open their programme. The Kangaroos Rugby League team will be selected on Satutday, June 26, a month before they leave for England by the Jervis Bay via South Africa. The Australian selectors will be appointed by the Board of Control. Ihe premiership in Sydney starts on April 17. The important match, Country v. City, is to be played on May 29, prior to the State team leaving for Brisbane to play there on June 5. Mr, Harry Sutherland is likely to be Queensland's representative to manage the Australian team in England. Be knows the ropes better, perhaps, than any other Australian. He is also keenly interested in the game in France where the Kangaroos are 'likely to play on this tour. It is not known who will be the New South Wales representative in the joint managership oi the team. !Mr. H. R. Flegg, president, may be 'a candidate though nothing is yet definite.

\ Save Brown'g First Match. i _ t^ays tShe Sports Post of January 23: Warrington will have had Dave Brown, the Australian, in the centre of their three-quarter line this afternoon for the first time. He had a run with the second team a week ago, and then there was an attendanee of 10,000 to see his debut in Warrington's colours. It reminds me of the days when Wigan always gave a new man a run in the second team hefore trying him out with the first side. They found it a very profitahle way of introdueing a new man to the game; indeed, they often got near to paying for him with their second team match 'gate.' " Warrington defeated Leigh 41 to 3 that afternoon. They scored seven tries and nine goals." Brpwn getting one try. The local M.P. could not have been greeted more effusively than Dave wai when he arrived at Warrington station. Looking in the pink of condition, he said he had kept in strict training on the way over, and was just a pound under the 121 stone mark. He has a four years' agreement. 'Strangely enough,M says Sports Post, "the Australian star's arrival at Wilderspool creates a. new problem for the Warrington directors — they will have to wear large-sized thinking oaps deciding who is to be left out to accommodate him. And that's no easy task in these days of Warrington magnificance."

Queensland Wing Man. Eric Harris, the Queensland wing three-quarter, has been showing splendid pnd oonsistent form for Leeds throughout the season, says the Sports Post of January 23: "He leads the try-scoring race, and still has a chance of bre^king the cluh record set up last season when he completed a great season's work by helping himself so freely to tries against Acton and Willesden at Park Royal. The Australian has scored tries in all the Leeds League games this season except those with Hull, Wakefield (at Headingley), Newcastle, Huddersfield ■ Cat Headlingley), Bradford (at Headingley) and Liverpool." An English Rugby League team toured France a little while back. They had arranged to play four matches, the first at Bordeaux on Jan. 31, at Roanne on February 6, at Lyons on February 7, and at the Buffalo Stadium, Paris, on February 9.