SECOND TEST

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 20 July 1929, Page 7

SECOND TEST

ALL BLACKS V. AUSTRALIA

TEAMS FOR TO-DAY'S MATCH

(United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright)

BRISBANE, 19th July. All eyes are on the Rugby test match to-morrow between New Zealand and Australia. , Mr McLeod, the New Zealand teams manager, states that the team has much improved and will fight desperately hard to prevent Australia winning the rubber. The New Zealanders are being billed throughout Brisbane as the world s greatest footballers. Tiie Australians Ross, Towers, E. Ford and Palfreyman, who played in the first test match will be unable to play to-morrow. The Australian team will be composed of ten New South Wales men, four Queenslanders and one Victorian. The team will be as follows:—Westfield, Mghie, Strutridge, King, Crossman, Lawton (eapt.), Malcolm, Breckeuridge, Ford, L. Gndoh, Ilanialainen, Finlay, Ceautti, Bonis and Thompson. The New Zealand team will be as follows:—Stringfellow, Grenside, Carleton, Hook, Oliver, Lilburne, Tuck, Porter (capt.), McWilliams, Snow, Kivell, Sontagg, Rika, Palmer, Cotterell. Reserves: Waterman, Leys, Ford, Mahoney. ALL BLACKS FORTUNATE REFERENCE TO RAIL ACCIDENT Mr McLeod, referring to the rail accident yesterday said that all the men came through the smash unharmed. They found plenty to talk about, and after it there was no more sleep. They were comfortable compared with the unfortunates whose carriages were turned over compelling them to walk about shivering till dawn, with a white mantle of frost all round them.