ALL BLACK TRIALS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 148, 8 June 1935, Page 6

ALL BLACK TRIALS

NEXT TUESDAY’S GAME Four H.B. Players Selected WELLINGTON PREDOMINATES By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, June 8. The following teams have been selected to represent the North Island Possibles and Probables in an All Black match to be played at Palmerston North on Tuesday:— POSSIBLES Full-back Pollock (Wellington) Three-quarter# Apsey (Hawke’s Bay), Stringfellow (Wairarap’a), Bullock-Douglas (Wanganui) Five-eighths Hedge (Auckland), Lilburne (Wellington) Half-back Tindill (Wellington) Back Bow Solomon (Auckland) Middle Bow Harrison (Taranaki), Steere (Wanga■ui), Trass (Wairarapa), McLean (Auckland) Front Bow Fastier (Taranaki), Lambourn (Wellington), Hull (Wellington) PBOBABLES Full-back Nepia (East Coast) Three-quarters Smith (Hawke’s Bay), M. Campbell (Wanganui), Brown (Auckland) Five-eighths Page (Wellington), Griffiths (Wellington) Half-back Kilby (Wellington) Back Bow Andrews (Wellington) Middle Bow Winyard (Waikato), Beid (Hawke’s Bay), Boss (North Auckland), McKenzie (Manawatu) Front Bow Leeson (Waikato), Dalton (Hawke’s Bay), Pepper (Auckland) Beserves: Forwards, Hadley (Auckland), Mataira (Hawke's Bay); backs, Sadler (Wellington), Carlson (Waikato). COMMENT ON SELECTION (By “Kick-off.") The teams for what may be considered the first of the big tests provided for candidates seeking honours in the 1935 All Black team were announced last evening, the teams being the possibles and probables for the North Island fifteen. There is every reason to believe, however, that included in the Island team will be players who do not figure in the immediate role of possible or probable. Hawkes Bay enthusiasts will be gratified to note four provincial candidates, Edgar Apsey (the sole Bayrepresentative in the possibles), Charlie Smith, Tory Reid and Doug Dalton have been included in next Tuesday’s game. There can be no question that ail have earned their places. Apsey and Smith figured in last year’s trials, while both Smith and Reid took part in the Maori trial in addition to the combined district fixture played at Napier on Thursday. There will be disappointment, no doubt that Colin Le Quesne has been omitted from Tuesday’s teams, but this by no means indicates that he has not hope of inclusion in the All Black team. There is a distinct possibility that he will be called upon to playin the New Zealand possibles-probables match at Wellington next Saturday.

A curious feature of the selection of next 'Tuesday’s possibles fifteen is the tact that both Apsey and BullockDouglas are left wingers. Fortunately for Apsey he is quite at home on either aide of the field.

Gause For Complaint. Justification for the Hawke’s BayRugby Union’s urgent request that only those players who had taken pare in district trial patches should be selected in the possibles v. probables Same is provided, for in next Tuesay’a teams are nine players who have taken part in the earlier trials, seven being Wellington nominees, and one each from Wanganui and Taranaki. From this it is quite apparent that the Wellington selector must have been possessed of “inside" information, in that he must have been aware that all those players now included would be given an opportunity in the event of his enabling other and lesserknown players to nave a chance byplaying in the early trial. If Wellington can be given this privilege then why was not the same extended to other provinces? Because of this special dispensation to Wellington we have the grossly unfair position of having Wellington find places for 16 players in two trials while other provinces have to be content with one trial in which their representation was naturally restricted on account of having to find places' for small union representatives. The Final Trials.

Because certain players do not find a place in Tuesday’s match at Palmerston North it does not necessarily follow that the 15 to play in the interIsland possibles v. Probables match on Thursday at Wellington will be chosen from Tuesday’s game. For the Wellington parade on Thursday there will be selected, according to' previous announcements, the best 15 players in each island. Following this match a number of “certainties" for the trip to Great Britain will be announced if what the chairman of the N.Z.R.U. and selection committee said at the annual meeting is taken as definite. Having so cleared the atmosphere to a certain extent there will follow on Saturdav at Wellington the New Zealand possibles v. probables game wherein it is possible that 20 or even more plavers may come from one island Most of the men who a;>pear in this game will be otiwr than those

in Thursday’s match, though perhaps a few of “certainties” will be given a game on Saturday to give the teams necessary strength and balance of power. This game will then bring to a close the parade of candidates before the selectors and the full team of 29 players to undertake the long trek will be announced after Saturday s game.