RUGBY FOOTBALL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4479, 17 July 1930, Page 3

RUGBY FOOTBALL.

THIIiRI) TEST TEAM. The following; eighteen players have 'been ordered to assemble for the third Rugby Test match at Auckland:—

[Pull-back: G. Nepia (East Coast); three-quarters: G. H. Hart (Canterbury), P. W. Lucas (Auckland), D. J. Oliver (Wlellington); live-eighths.: A. E. Cooke (Wellington),, AT. F. Nicholls (Wellington), W. A. Strang (South Canterbury); half-back: 11. Corner (Auckland); wing forward: C. G. Porter (Wellington) ; front rankers: A. I. Cottrell (Canterbury), .J. Here (Otago); loejkl: E. R. G. Steere (Hawke’s Bay ) ; side and back row forwards: I. Finlavson (North Auckland), R. G. McWilliams (Auckland), E. T. Stewart (Canterbury), WL Batty (Auckland), IT. P. McLean (Wellington), and YV. Ilazlett (Southland). 'The final selection will be made on July 25.

AUCKLAND v. BET TAIN. The following team lias been selected to represent Auckland against the British team next Saturday : Pu ! U-lbaok: Butler; , three-quar-ters: Minns, Lucas, Hook; liveeighths: Hasiam, Jamieson; lialfbadk: Corner; rover: Solomon; forwards: Hadley, Palmer, A. Knight, L. Knight, McWilliams, A. Pinlayson, \Y- Batty. SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS BY RUGBY PRESIDENT. ALL BLACK CANNIBALISTIC TENDENCIES. Speaking at a dinner tendered the visiting teams at Wlanganui on Saturday evening, D,r. G. J. Adams, president of the New Zealand Rugby Union, referred to the recent incidents at Timaru on the occasion of the match with the Britishers. He described it as the “Timaru disaster.”

The rough play in that match had come in the first place from a southern player. The referee had allowed play that should never have gone on. One British player had left the field, with a double row of teeth marks on his side and another of the same team had left the field with injuries far more serious.

The disaster came when the evening' paper came out before the dinner and whitewashed the referee and the. home team.

Dr. Adams said he did not take the matter up in Timaru as Lime would not. permit.

'The speaker also expressed the opinion that the Dominion’s Rugby sense had become educated along wrong lines. There was too -much of the competitive element at the expense, of the game. After the match, said Dr. Adams, the manager of the British team I Mr. J. Baxter) gathered the members of his band together and forbad* the mentioning of the fact l hat a certain forward bore a double set of teeth marks, the impressions of which were still, easily discernible. When the team reached Wellington some ten days later, Mr. .Baxter further warned his team that he would regard any comment outside as to the injury alluded to as a breach of faith by some member of the team. ' DR, ADAMS ASKED TO SUBSTANTIATE OR WITHDRAW. Timaru, July 15. The Timaru Post, in an editorial replying to Dr. Adams, challenges the president of the Rugby Union to either substantiate or withdraw the charges, characterising his outburst as defamatory, and dechmug that tliis latest exhibition of petulance is no justification for the inertia which has marked his actions, and concludes: “We cannot regard Dr. Adams’s statement as other than extremely loose. It is his clear duty to substantiate the charges which he had made, and we challenge him to do so if he can. “Dr. Adams has a clear duty to perform. If ihe fails, then we hope that the Rugby Union will take a hand in the business.” The N.Z. Management Committee ba§ posted press clippings to Dr. Adams and asked for an explanation. b

SCHOOLS RUGBY TOURNAMENT. QUADRANGULAR EVENT TO BE HELD' ANNUALLY. A conference convened by All’. V. ,J. Henderson, lion secretary of the Taranaki Schools Rugby Union, for the purpose of instituting an animal quadrangular tournament, was held at Marlon on Saturday, and the movement was put on. a practical footing. The Horowhenua Schools R.U. was represented 'by Mr. T. Chipper, of Levin, and delegates were also present from Hutt Central, Petone Central, Stratford, Marton Junction, Marton District High School, Tura'kina, Bulls, and Trentha.ni. Mr. L. J. Fnrrie (Stratford)., president of the Taranaki Schools Rugby Union, was elected to the chair; and Mr. W. J. Melody (Trentham)i, president of the Hutt Valley Union, was elected hori. secretary. Messrs H. Miller (Hutt Central), F. AyHempleman (Marton Junction), and Chipper acted as spokesmen for their respective unions. ' It was resolved that the delegates present band themselves into an association for, the purpose of inaugurating o. tournament among the Rangitikei, Horowhenua,

and Ilutt Valley Primary Schools’ Rugby Unions in August next, and lliat the venue for the 1030 tournament be Hull' Valley; that the tournament henceforth be held annually in each of the association districts represented, in (urn: that on the first clay of the tournament, reliable scales be set at O.st. 81b., and that any hoy who balances or over-balances the scales as set bn ineligible to participate in (lie tournament.

An amendment by Horowhcnun that the weight limit be fixed at 0 stone lapsed for want of a seconder. The conference also decided that ihe tournament'be open to any selected primary boy who is a nonprolieiouey holder at the end of December preceding the football season.

A meeting of delegates from each centre will be hold during each tournament, and the number of votes will be restricted to two from each centre.

The. colours of the four unions are: Horowlionua, blue and gold bars; Taranaki, yellow and black hoops; Eangitikei, green; Unit Valiev, red and black hoops. The president, after thanking all present for having travelled so far at their own expense in order to further l lie cause of primary schools’ football referred to the institution of the forthcoming tournament in tho Halt Valley as the realisation of a dream of long ago. He congratulated Mr. Miller, who, like himself, was a pioneer of Ihe existing Welling! on, Manawa tn, Wanganui, Wairarapa tournament, on the success of his negotiations in having brought so speedily to pass the conference just, concluded. Messrs Olson and Chipper expressed their appreciation of the Hull Valley Union’s offer to run the first tournament, which involved no small amount of organisation in the matter of finding billets for 60 visiting boys, arranging educational visit's, and other entertainment.