LEAGUE JOTTINGS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 155, 21 September 1927, Page 12

LEAGUE JOTTINGS

NOTES AND COMMENTS INTER-ISLAND GAME Now- r. iat the St. George Club’s visit is washed out, the star attraction and classic mate h of the season in Rugby League will now be the game between the North and South Island League reps., which is to take place at Ca.rlaw Park next Saturday. This city alone possesses the crack players of the North Island, and the Auckland rep. team may be considered to be as good and if not better than the team actually chosen to tussle with the South on Saturday. But it is pleasing to find that on this occasion the selectors have chosen quite a number of Leaguers from South Auckland and Wellington, evidently with a view to discovering new talent, for it seems more than certain that next year an All Black team will be selected. Otago has done as well as could be expected in getting four players into the South Island team to meet the North Island at Auckland on Saturday, says the Otsego “Times.” D. Sullivan, McKewen, Townsend and Kckhoff are all good players, and may be looked to to uphold the honour of the province. R. Oliver, Otagb, is the emergency back. * * ♦ W. Desmond, the fifth New Zealand League footballer to leave for England under engagement to a League ' club there, started his football in the Linwood, Christchurch, Club’s fifth grade, and went on the fourth and third grades in successive years. After the war he played senior for a season, and then left for the West Coast, and later for Wellington. Desmond made the trip Home, and. wTiile not brilliant, was a solid and useful back. His offer of engagement came from the Leeds Club. The Ponsonby sick list still exists, although things certainly look much brighter than they

were. It is expected that Dooley Moore will leave the hospital on Wednesday. It is doubtful whether Peckham will be fit to take the field on Saturday in the North Island team. He was injured in the match last Saturday week when Ponsonby played Shore.

Although he has been playing in first grade League Rugby in Sydney for 12 years, Arthur Oxford of the Last Sydney Club, is still the most prolific scorer playing the game. For several years he has topped the scoring list, or finished very close to it, and this season he heads it with 79 points. In four of his club’s recent victories he has won the day with his unerring left boot. His kicking of 29 goals out of as many attempts in 1920 is a record which has stood for seven years, and Is likely to stand for a good many more, remarks the Sydney “Daily Guardian.”

Carroll, the hefty Richmond forward, is out of the hospital now, but it is not expected that he will be taking the playing field again this year.

After its meritorious victory last Saturday against Shore, Richmond is commencing to enjoy the sensation of .the limeligh:. Its chances against y lewton for the champion of champt ons look very bright, and with Prentic.e and Bass back again, a dry day should suit t.iem equally as well as a wet one.