ALL BLACK TRAINEES FIT

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 194, 2 September 1937, Page 7

ALL BLACK TRAINEES FIT

Press Aasooiatipn.i

Announcemeiit Expected To-day

(By Telegraph—

CHRISTCHURCH:, Last Night. I ' The selection of the New Zealand' team to meet South Africa in the second Tpst match is e^pegted tp be announced' by the New Zealand Rygliy Union at Wfiliington to-ntorrow. All 21 playerg who are in training at New Brighton for the game bave passed the medical exaiuination, so that tl^e selectors' cho.ice of the team will npt ha furthor limited, The only men abput wlxom there was any doubt wero J. G-. Rankin, the Canterbury forwar'd, who was kept out of the first Tcst match by illness, and R, H. Ward, who eventually tooK hjs place, bpt who suffered a leg injury. during the northern topr of his pro^ vincial team, Southland. Intense public interept. is being fcgken in the training of the All Blacks. Wet weather again prevented outdoor practice to-day, but raere must have beeu more than 1000 spectators at the King Edward barracks,'to which the, players again had recourse for a short. "bnt brisk work put. The hnll is inadequately lit for the purpose, but its tancovered floor is dry and it enables the players to practise mechanical and taetical moves in reasonable comfort. The forwards to-day worked nnder the idirection of the manager, Mr. J. T. 'Burrows, and Mr. W. J. Wallace hai charge of the backs. To-morrow it is hoped that the weather will allow the team to have a run at Lancaster Park. If it is still wet, training will be held in the barracks again.