Varsity Again

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 67, 10 June 1927, Page 7

Varsity Again

Full Team for Grammar To-Morrow’s Rugby Matches AN interesting feature of to-morrow’s Rugby will be the “ reappearance of ’Varsity at full strength. Against Grammar Old Boys, in the main match Tit Eden Park, Varsity will have the services of returned trippers who were away with the New Zealand Universities’ team. This and other matches should provide sparkling, football, creating an interesting programme, despite the fact that leading teams are not meeting each other.

CONSIDER this for an attractive i schedule:—University v. Grammar Old Boys; Ponsonby v. Marists; Grafton v. North Shore; College Rifles v. Training College. On recent form the winners are easy to pick—University, Ponsonby, Grafton

and College Rifles, but the intrusion of surprise elements is always possible. At North Shore, for instance, Grafton may find the Shore team, on its home territory, a hot proposition, while Marists, playing Ponsonby at their own game, may worry the suburban speedsters. FIRST ROUND CONCLUDES Remarkable ups and downs have characterised this season’s Rugby, but it is probable that after to-day’s matches, which conclude the first round,

[ the positions of the teams will afford a true reflection of form. Early performances quite possibly credited some teams with a fictitious standard. In addition, losses through illness or accident have hit some combinations hard. Training College and

North Shore have both slumped since the outset, and only Grafton and Ponsonby have been truly consistent. In the B grade series a match of cardinal importance will be decided tomorrow, when City will travel to Swanson to meet Waitemata. On its home field the latter team, which is assisted by a notable forward in C. Fletcher, ex-All Black, may trouble City. For the fir.st time this season, a junior match, Varsity v. North Shore, will be staged as a curtain-raiser on Eden Park No. 1.